<?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[His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses;  It slipped from politics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58619]]></link><description><![CDATA[His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses;  It slipped from politics to puns;   It passed from Mahomet to Moses;    Beginning with the laws that keep     The planets in the radiant courses,      And ending with some precept deep       For dressing eels or shoeing horses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23307]]></link><description><![CDATA[You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth,  Is the tender fear of wrong,   That never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth,  Is the tender fear of wrong,   That never wrongeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things just kind of built from there. I always liked watching them in football. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things just kind of built from there. I always liked watching them in football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no judgments where you have no compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no judgments where you have no compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61766]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the voice of men shall call, "He is fallen like us all,  Though the weapon of the Lord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14088]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the voice of men shall call, "He is fallen like us all,  Though the weapon of the Lord was in his hand:"   And thine epitaph shall be--    "He was wretched ev'n as we;"     And thy tomb may be unhonoured in the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to accept it. If you accept it, you're giving up. I didn't understand it when it happened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41331]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to accept it. If you accept it, you're giving up. I didn't understand it when it happened to me. Looking back, I think it was good I didn't understand it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a journey...not a destination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a journey...not a destination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every law is an infraction of liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every law is an infraction of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2627]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26960]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19974]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape, self-named Homo Sapiens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In your patience possess ye your souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In your patience possess ye your souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only is there no God, but trying getting a plumber on weekends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only is there no God, but trying getting a plumber on weekends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23913]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60444]]></link><description><![CDATA[With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a distinct possibility that the local taxpayer will get overwhelmed by the number of referendums. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38762]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a distinct possibility that the local taxpayer will get overwhelmed by the number of referendums.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I stay up so late that I have my morning coffee before I go to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I stay up so late that I have my morning coffee before I go to bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57465]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lost it in the sun!(after fumbling a grounder.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lost it in the sun!(after fumbling a grounder.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  It is my opinion that art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  It is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord... In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God... Today the individual has become the highest form and the greatest bane of artistic creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fraud is the ready minister of injustice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55854]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing permanent except change. -Heraclitus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5595]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing permanent except change. -Heraclitus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most water conservation measures can save our customers money both in the short and long runs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most water conservation measures can save our customers money both in the short and long runs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18852]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wee commonly say of a prodigall man that hee is no man's foe but his owne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wee commonly say of a prodigall man that hee is no man's foe but his owne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/605]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While I think the dangers of a member of the committee being blackmailed are somewhat exaggerated in political discourse, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33663]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I think the dangers of a member of the committee being blackmailed are somewhat exaggerated in political discourse, it would still be a prudent discussion for the minority leader to have with Mr. Condit, ... It can very well be that one would want to err on the side of prudence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun shineth upon the dunghill and is not corrupted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun shineth upon the dunghill and is not corrupted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58297</guid></item></channel></rss>