<?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[We knew they were going to come and had made elaborate arrangements for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41365]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew they were going to come and had made elaborate arrangements for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How instinct varies in the grov'lling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine!  'Twixt that and reason what a nice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22828]]></link><description><![CDATA[How instinct varies in the grov'lling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine!  'Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier!   Forever sep'rate, yet forever near!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57817]]></link><description><![CDATA[They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm so happy today. It's a victory for the women's rights movement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36582]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm so happy today. It's a victory for the women's rights movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I dream, I am ageless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52103]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I dream, I am ageless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58831]]></link><description><![CDATA[All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live (John 11:25).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!  There is betwixt that smile we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54508]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!  There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to,   That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,    More pangs and fears than wars or women have;     And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,      Never to hope again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flies are busiest about leane horses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flies are busiest about leane horses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always had confidence, but I never let my ego get to the point that I think I'm the superstar, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13660]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always had confidence, but I never let my ego get to the point that I think I'm the superstar, because I know that ego has destroyed many a poker career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4060]]></link><description><![CDATA[One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone, But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone, But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women carry on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to play, how to ride a bicycle, or how to kiss. One of the best ways to destroy love for any of these activities would be through the use of grades, and the coercion and judgment they represent. Grades are a cudgel to bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don't want to do, an important instrument in inculcating children into a lifelong subservience to whatever authority happens to be thrust over them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've wanted to be in the Pittsburgh metro area for a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33429]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've wanted to be in the Pittsburgh metro area for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctrine of the blessed Trinity is a reminder of the supernaturalness of biblical Christianity. The doctrine defies rationalization, yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6725]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctrine of the blessed Trinity is a reminder of the supernaturalness of biblical Christianity. The doctrine defies rationalization, yet it provides for the believer the answer to the unity and diversity of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really into those shows. But the more I learn in class, the more I'm interested in the real thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37561]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really into those shows. But the more I learn in class, the more I'm interested in the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no bad feelings from him and no bad feelings from me. He said 'I'm sorry. It's just one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33150]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no bad feelings from him and no bad feelings from me. He said 'I'm sorry. It's just one of those deals.' I said I understand. We've been good friends for a lot of years. I think he's a quality individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't fix everything, but it would create a more just system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42177]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't fix everything, but it would create a more just system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's my goal. I'd love to have that happen. If things fall into the right place and I work hard, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29237]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's my goal. I'd love to have that happen. If things fall into the right place and I work hard, maybe it will happen. I'm just going to work hard and do the same things that got me here. Hopefully that's enough. I hope they like the way I play and I can get a spot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have only one eye,--I have a right to be blind sometimes . . . I really do not see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have only one eye,--I have a right to be blind sometimes . . . I really do not see the signal!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a thorn that has stuck in our sides for year. We went from being one of the best to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32849]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a thorn that has stuck in our sides for year. We went from being one of the best to the bottom 10 in the nation last year. I have let it be known from Day 1 in practice that we will not forget that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35802]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You change your life by changing your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5502]]></link><description><![CDATA[You change your life by changing your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2464]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four;  Stella's wit is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four;  Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face,   She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm always coming out, checking scores, sneaking out of the kitchen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm always coming out, checking scores, sneaking out of the kitchen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. [It., Il reo  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10649]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. [It., Il reo  D'un delitto e chi'l pensa: a chi l' ordisce   La pena spetta.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dry your eyes--O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise  To ease my breast of melodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dry your eyes--O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise  To ease my breast of melodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy, but I'm tired, exhausted and emotionally drained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37571]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy, but I'm tired, exhausted and emotionally drained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O villainy! Ho! let the door be lock'd. Treachery! seek it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60648]]></link><description><![CDATA[O villainy! Ho! let the door be lock'd. Treachery! seek it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60648</guid></item></channel></rss>