<?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 once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19514]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55928]]></link><description><![CDATA[O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to have a fast start, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32360]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to have a fast start,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is the shadow of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is the shadow of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've helped with what I've needed, here and at home, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37368]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've helped with what I've needed, here and at home,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over here the medical treatment is tied to the cooperation with the interrogators. I asked the doctor several times to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over here the medical treatment is tied to the cooperation with the interrogators. I asked the doctor several times to give me medical assistance but the doctors told me unless I talk to the interrogators, they will not give me help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever happens, take responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever happens, take responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is notone's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is notone's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet onhis ideas, to take a calculated risk-and to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45633]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61831]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What power had Ibefore I learned to yield?Shatter me Great Wind!I shall possess the field!Richard Wilbura stanza from his poem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26588]]></link><description><![CDATA[What power had Ibefore I learned to yield?Shatter me Great Wind!I shall possess the field!Richard Wilbura stanza from his poem To A Milkweed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52500]]></link><description><![CDATA[All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight,  The tempest itself lags ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27517]]></link><description><![CDATA[How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight,  The tempest itself lags behind,   And the swift-winged arrows of light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62361]]></link><description><![CDATA[H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25120]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1129]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/585]]></link><description><![CDATA[I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I think about Zeal, he was the most honest and fair man I had ever known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31857]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I think about Zeal, he was the most honest and fair man I had ever known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   I think I have never heard a sermon preached on the story of Mary and Martha that did not attempt, somehow, somewhere, to explain away its text. Mary's, of course, was the better part -- the Lord said so, and we must not precisely contradict Him. But we will be careful not to despise Martha. No doubt, He approved of her, too. We could not get on without her, and indeed, having paid lip-service to God's opinion, we must admit that we greatly prefer her, for Martha was doing a really feminine job, whereas Mary was just behaving like any other disciple; and that is a hard pill to swallow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I support the McCartney family. I support their demand for justice, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35690]]></link><description><![CDATA[I support the McCartney family. I support their demand for justice,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you're seeing is a glut of gently used vehicles, and that's putting pressure on all vehicle prices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38033]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you're seeing is a glut of gently used vehicles, and that's putting pressure on all vehicle prices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hearts that are delicate and kind, and tongues that are neither -- these makes the finest company in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hearts that are delicate and kind, and tongues that are neither -- these makes the finest company in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6070]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,  And I will look on both indifferently;   For let the gods so speed me as I love    The name of honor more than I fear death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23213]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green.  Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing   With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. -Love's Labour 's Lost. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55475]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17494]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59649]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55832]]></link><description><![CDATA[In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By-and-by has no end. [Lat., Modo, et modo, non habebent modum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59297]]></link><description><![CDATA[By-and-by has no end. [Lat., Modo, et modo, non habebent modum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a shocking gasoline build. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28411]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a shocking gasoline build.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10226]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not a garden-variety situation, ... It's very difficult to think even an organic, naturally-occurring presence could result in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38750]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not a garden-variety situation, ... It's very difficult to think even an organic, naturally-occurring presence could result in a concentration that affected the basis for exposure to three people. It's the reason we launched the investigation we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love means never having to say you're sorry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love means never having to say you're sorry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A.J. is a guy who, if we didn't have Dan and Andy, people would be buzzing about. He's hard-throwing with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32412]]></link><description><![CDATA[A.J. is a guy who, if we didn't have Dan and Andy, people would be buzzing about. He's hard-throwing with good control of three quality pitches. We had the luxury of bringing him along slowly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gives lectures but no one hears about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41152]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gives lectures but no one hears about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12468]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12468</guid></item></channel></rss>