<?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[I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15669]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May I now pass on to this Congress advice which I received recently from a fellow Vermonter - Either impeach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36600]]></link><description><![CDATA[May I now pass on to this Congress advice which I received recently from a fellow Vermonter - Either impeach him or get off his back]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...no civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47105]]></link><description><![CDATA[...no civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rules of conduct which govern men in their relations to one another are being applied in an ever-increasing degree to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rules of conduct which govern men in their relations to one another are being applied in an ever-increasing degree to nations. The battlefield as a place of settlement of disputes is gradually yielding to arbitral courts of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself... 'How did I get through all of that?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, ... But the dance speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, ... But the dance speaks to everyone. ... Otherwise it wouldn't work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45717]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't find candy bars in vending machines in our schools anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40764]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't find candy bars in vending machines in our schools anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not take drugs. I am drugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57888]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not take drugs. I am drugs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make your life a mission-not an intermission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make your life a mission-not an intermission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10523]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separatedfrom right living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21968]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separatedfrom right living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17438]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us who can be against us? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17686]]></link><description><![CDATA[What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us who can be against us?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who wait could face long lines at licensing outlets on the coast,. Nobody wants to be standing in line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who wait could face long lines at licensing outlets on the coast,. Nobody wants to be standing in line to buy a license at low tide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63060]]></link><description><![CDATA[If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, hisinfluence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, hisinfluence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautifuljewels of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although the last, not least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although the last, not least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no easy way to bathe a hummingbird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39643]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no easy way to bathe a hummingbird.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61662]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9043]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours;  Only in our blindness   We gather thorns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23757]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours;  Only in our blindness   We gather thorns for flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fault rests with the gods, who have made her so stupid. [Lat., La faute en est aux dieux, qui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fault rests with the gods, who have made her so stupid. [Lat., La faute en est aux dieux, qui la firent si bete.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to take any chances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29307]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to take any chances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43928]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not the winding up witnesses, And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?  For witnesses, like watches, go  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not the winding up witnesses, And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?  For witnesses, like watches, go   Just as they're set, too fast or slow;    And where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd,     'Tis ten to one that side is cast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hiya kids. Here is an important message from your Uncle Bill. Don't buy drugs. Become a pop star, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hiya kids. Here is an important message from your Uncle Bill. Don't buy drugs. Become a pop star, and they give you them for free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   The conduct of disputation by verbal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   The conduct of disputation by verbal brickbat, by innuendo, and by light-fingered intellectual dexterity, is a mordant reminder of the time when controversies were settled by faggot and sword. The truth is hardly less the loser because the inquisitor has altered his methods. All of us who seek to explore the wide reaches of God's revelation, and strive to bring the thinking of others under the domination of Christ, do well to seek first to bring our own rhetorical techniques under that same dominion -- under the discipline, that is, of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64583]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was dehydrated. He's been on his feet all day just like everybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40483]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was dehydrated. He's been on his feet all day just like everybody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is insufficient temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is insufficient temptation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We 'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have. -As You Like It. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55633]]></link><description><![CDATA[We 'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37718]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I can tell you is that we're continuing to gather information. I think Allen's attendance at the meeting reflects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31898]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I can tell you is that we're continuing to gather information. I think Allen's attendance at the meeting reflects the governor's desire to get all the input that he can possibly get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honesty to reporting.Thus, if a legend told of a notable hero that all men spoke of his prowess any bard who valued his life would hastily add except for a couple of people in his home village who thought he was a loony, and quite a lot of other people who had never really heard of him. Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like: His mighty steed was fast as the wind, on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three, any loose talk about a beloved having a face that could launch a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed own a very large seaport. Patrician Olaf II was eventually killed during an experiment conducted in the palace grounds to prove the disputed accuracy of the proverb The Pen is mightier than the Sword.In his memory it was decided that the proverb would from now on include the phrase: only if the Sword is very small and the Pen very sharp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27668]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would the gods had made thee poetical. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would the gods had made thee poetical. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55672</guid></item></channel></rss>