<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The cynics are right nine times out of ten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cynics are right nine times out of ten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which we daily hear from Christian lips. To possess a high spirit, to behave with proper spirit when used ill -- by which is meant, a quick feeling of injuries, and a promptness in resenting them -- entitles to commendation; and a meek-spirited disposition, the highest Scripture eulogium, expresses ideas of disapprobation and contempt. Vanity and vainglory are suffered without interruption to retain their natural possession of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They simply enjoyed every day together. The most special times for them were in the morning, sitting in their den, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38817]]></link><description><![CDATA[They simply enjoyed every day together. The most special times for them were in the morning, sitting in their den, drinking coffee and enjoying the peace of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had more depth on the offensive line this year than ever, and we wanted to keep him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34691]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had more depth on the offensive line this year than ever, and we wanted to keep him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving procures us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving procures us admission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misled by Fancy's meteor-ray, By passion driven;  But yet the light that led astray,   Was light from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misled by Fancy's meteor-ray, By passion driven;  But yet the light that led astray,   Was light from Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather be rich than stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11751]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather be rich than stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're challenging the very best in the segment by offering refined Scandinavian luxury -- in other words, clean and elegant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35187]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're challenging the very best in the segment by offering refined Scandinavian luxury -- in other words, clean and elegant lines combined with intelligent functionality. Every single detail has been designed with a firm focus on the user's well-being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little public scandal is good once in a while. It takes the tension out of the news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17918]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little public scandal is good once in a while. It takes the tension out of the news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26598]]></link><description><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60695]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48143]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[life is the most common disease transmissible through sex ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66830]]></link><description><![CDATA[life is the most common disease transmissible through sex]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Shepherd's Boy and the WolfA sheperd boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Shepherd's Boy and the WolfA sheperd boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, Wolf! Wolf! and when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains. The Wolf, however, did truly come at last. The Shepherd-boy, now really alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror: Pray, do come and help me; the Wolf is killing the sheep; but no one paid any heed to his cries, nor rendered any assistance. The Wolf, having no cause of fear, at his leisure lacerated or destroyed the whole flock. There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17974]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blackout is similar to any side effect of drinking too much such as vomiting or abnormal behavior. The implications ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31723]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blackout is similar to any side effect of drinking too much such as vomiting or abnormal behavior. The implications beyond that are people don't know what they did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32245]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military that goes off and kills terrorists and whatnot. A cleaner environment without forcing SUVs off the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For NASA, space is still a high priority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9346]]></link><description><![CDATA[For NASA, space is still a high priority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52522]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.   - Francis Bacon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53360]]></link><description><![CDATA[To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in debt is so far a slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11473]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in debt is so far a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The line of red are lines of blood, nobly and unselfishly shed by men who loved the liberty of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The line of red are lines of blood, nobly and unselfishly shed by men who loved the liberty of their fellowmen more than they loved their fellowmen more than they lover their own lives and fortunes. God forbid that we would have to use the blood of America to freshen the color of the flag. But if it should ever be necessary, that flag will be colored once more, and in being colored will be glorified and purified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And you pretend it doesn't bother you, When you just want to explode... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28007]]></link><description><![CDATA[And you pretend it doesn't bother you, When you just want to explode...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, "We worship God through Christ!" Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan,  Earth stood hard as iron,   Water like a stone; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61725]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan,  Earth stood hard as iron,   Water like a stone;    Snow had fallen, snow on snow,     Snow on snow,      In the bleak midwinter,       Long ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can observe a lot just by watching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44778]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can observe a lot just by watching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In these troublesome days when the great Mother Empire stands splendidly isolated in Europe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13922]]></link><description><![CDATA[In these troublesome days when the great Mother Empire stands splendidly isolated in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3065]]></link><description><![CDATA[A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've never had any well-described Native American corn to compare to the archaeological record. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39433]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've never had any well-described Native American corn to compare to the archaeological record.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46808]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clown waits for the river to run itself dry. [Crossing Cheapside.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clown waits for the river to run itself dry. [Crossing Cheapside.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29556]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can be seen through your eyes butit is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can be seen through your eyes butit is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would not be happening if the race was close or if [Democratic candidate Fernando] Ferrer was winning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35633]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would not be happening if the race was close or if [Democratic candidate Fernando] Ferrer was winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are two travellers, Roger and I. Roger's my dog--come here, you scamp!  Jump for the gentleman--mind your eye! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12671]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are two travellers, Roger and I. Roger's my dog--come here, you scamp!  Jump for the gentleman--mind your eye!   Over the table,--look out for the lamp!    The rogue is growing a little old;     Five years we've tramped through wind and weather,      And slept out-doors when nights were cold,       And ate and drank and starved together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general it's a healthy profit taking move for the EM market, and for the domestic markets in Latin America ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34542]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general it's a healthy profit taking move for the EM market, and for the domestic markets in Latin America as the stock and currency markets are coming off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49852]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's probably a fairly even split of the people who are solidly behind Katherine and those who are not solidly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34565]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's probably a fairly even split of the people who are solidly behind Katherine and those who are not solidly behind her yet and thinking about another candidate probably would be nice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1697]]></link><description><![CDATA[The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18064]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18064</guid></item></channel></rss>