<?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 ring flies a long way because it's so thin, ... It's sailed as far as 1,333 feet, a Guinness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ring flies a long way because it's so thin, ... It's sailed as far as 1,333 feet, a Guinness world record.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene they could never have dared to be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee.Unfortunately, she was just coming home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21335]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee.Unfortunately, she was just coming home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell-- Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave,--  Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell-- Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave,--  Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell,   As eager to anticipate their grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52351]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather put my 10 bucks into the community than put it into Wal-Mart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather put my 10 bucks into the community than put it into Wal-Mart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42479]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2324]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   What is worst of all is to advocate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   What is worst of all is to advocate Christianity, not because it is true, but because it might prove useful... To justify Christianity because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion; and we may reflect that a good deal of the attention of totalitarian states has been devoted with a steadfastness of purpose not always found in democracies, to providing their national life with a foundation of morality -- the wrong kind, perhaps, but a good deal more of it. It is not enthusiasm, but dogma, that differentiates a Christian from a pagan society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the fatt's in the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16015]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the fatt's in the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30382]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a Northern California earthquake. Earthquakes greater than magnitude 7 are going to cause intense shaking over a large area ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â everyone needs to be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield itself upon honest and lawful terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49012]]></link><description><![CDATA[A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty and fear shake hands together ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty and fear shake hands together]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art the Mars of malcontents. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art the Mars of malcontents. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22305]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens if you get scared half to death twice?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11426]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens if you get scared half to death twice?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14137]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no love of life without despair of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65861]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no love of life without despair of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They played well. You've got to give props where it's due. That ball was just bouncing their way, really it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36371]]></link><description><![CDATA[They played well. You've got to give props where it's due. That ball was just bouncing their way, really it was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simply the thing I am shall make me live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simply the thing I am shall make me live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very excited to be the head women's basketball coach at Beloit College, ... This is a great opportunity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33735]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very excited to be the head women's basketball coach at Beloit College, ... This is a great opportunity for me. I am looking forward to putting my stamp on the program. I am confident that I can and will be successful here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that slaughter [battle] is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but [it does] not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that slaughter [battle] is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but [it does] not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the name of humanity. Sooner or later someone will come along with a sharp sword and hack off our arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until people stop burning, it's going to keep going up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until people stop burning, it's going to keep going up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15578]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity... If you wanted to run the blender, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity... If you wanted to run the blender, you had to rub balloons on your head. If you wanted to cook, you had to pull off a sweater real quick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54280]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their leadership was much better than ours. We got a little hesitant and were shell-shocked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their leadership was much better than ours. We got a little hesitant and were shell-shocked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got 200 e-mails (about it). Lots of people had the same reaction. They were assigned to read it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40286]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got 200 e-mails (about it). Lots of people had the same reaction. They were assigned to read it in school and didn't. We try to take things that sometimes people turn off of because they're introduced to them too early or for some other reason, and try to make them entertaining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It came down in buckets that day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37261]]></link><description><![CDATA[It came down in buckets that day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the search proves more profitable than the goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aid the dawning, tongue and pen: Aid it, hopes of honest men! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aid the dawning, tongue and pen: Aid it, hopes of honest men!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One mouth doth nothing without another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49695]]></link><description><![CDATA[One mouth doth nothing without another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When good Americans die they go to Paris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2421]]></link><description><![CDATA[When good Americans die they go to Paris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity--in short, of tyranny--and it is committed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity--in short, of tyranny--and it is committed to making tyranny universal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think you ever go into a marriage to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think you ever go into a marriage to fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing to me that 16- and 17-year-olds are treated as adults no matter what. If we make a big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28202]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing to me that 16- and 17-year-olds are treated as adults no matter what. If we make a big enough presence and have enough people, maybe the General Assembly will listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even with their combined support, the cost of mounting a production has proved to be too much. We have continued ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even with their combined support, the cost of mounting a production has proved to be too much. We have continued to do fine productions, and I've found it even more challenging because we have to adapt productions to the recital stage, and yet we're doing full productions with sets, lights and everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals that go into (shelters) everywhere, if they have anything wrong with them, if they're not social, they're immediately put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals that go into (shelters) everywhere, if they have anything wrong with them, if they're not social, they're immediately put down. Very few of them are kept, and the ones that are kept are the ones they think would be adoptable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold our greyhound in our hand, Our falcon on our glove;  But where shall we find leash, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51113]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold our greyhound in our hand, Our falcon on our glove;  But where shall we find leash, or band,   For dame that loves to rove?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51113</guid></item></channel></rss>