<?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[Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  In that obedience which we have shown to be due ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  In that obedience which we have shown to be due the authority of rulers, we are always to make this exception, indeed, to observe it as primary, that such obedience is never to lead us away from obedience to him, to whose decrees all their commands ought to yield, to whose majesty their scepters ought to be submitted. And how absurd would it be that in satisfying men you should incur the displeasure of him for whose sake you obey men themselves! The Lord, therefore, is the King of Kings, who, when he has opened his sacred mouth, must alone be heard, before all and above all men; next to him we are subject to those men who are in authority over us, but only in him. If they command anything against him, let it go unesteemed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hands across the sea, Feet on English ground,  The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hands across the sea, Feet on English ground,  The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Sudan supports us as people say, I do not see what's bad about that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28742]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Sudan supports us as people say, I do not see what's bad about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The destruction of the poor is their poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The destruction of the poor is their poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21242]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55109]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57971]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19968]]></link><description><![CDATA[My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness is a child of ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness is a child of ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farm Safety is important all year long, but we are proud to help Farm Bureau promote safety during spring planting. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farm Safety is important all year long, but we are proud to help Farm Bureau promote safety during spring planting. Farm families need to be reminded about slowing down and taking proper safety precautions. By working together, we are keeping rural kids safe and healthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to find a way to match his intensity for 90 minutes because he's going to find a way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37602]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to find a way to match his intensity for 90 minutes because he's going to find a way to score a goal. The thing is you can't just focus on him. They have so many weapons with Noonan, Ralston and Dempsey that you can't focus on any one of them and it's important that all of our field players are helping defensively.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64145]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15722]]></link><description><![CDATA[What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it's simply (about) getting the financial resources to get this thing finished. You'll never get another chance like this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it's simply (about) getting the financial resources to get this thing finished. You'll never get another chance like this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' - "London Magazine", March, 1967.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a real good kid. Real quick, great skills. You'll see a lot of him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29191]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a real good kid. Real quick, great skills. You'll see a lot of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a really nice surprise, ... We were the only newcomers, and doggone if we didn't take it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37509]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a really nice surprise, ... We were the only newcomers, and doggone if we didn't take it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the things that hamper Linux's climb to world domination is the shortage of bad Computer Role Playing Games, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25149]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the things that hamper Linux's climb to world domination is the shortage of bad Computer Role Playing Games, or CRaPGs. No operating system can be considered respectable without one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely the stars are images of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely the stars are images of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you can't believe your eyes, you can always trust your heart. Love makes anything possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62876]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you can't believe your eyes, you can always trust your heart. Love makes anything possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Place saw My best days, My Happiest, My Wife having blessed me with Your Brother Woodhouse... I Calculated, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38843]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Place saw My best days, My Happiest, My Wife having blessed me with Your Brother Woodhouse... I Calculated, to Live and died in Comfort, Our Business Was good of course We agreed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're dynamic backs. They can flat out fly. We have to do a better job of getting off blocks and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38260]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're dynamic backs. They can flat out fly. We have to do a better job of getting off blocks and pursuing to the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the building needs to be used for economic development and I don't think Smoky Mountain Development has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40435]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the building needs to be used for economic development and I don't think Smoky Mountain Development has been able to accomplish that. They need that off their plate. It is in Haywood County so let Haywood County take it and make something out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13320]]></link><description><![CDATA[True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To desire the attainment of this equality or superiority by the particular means of others being brought down to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47445]]></link><description><![CDATA[To desire the attainment of this equality or superiority by the particular means of others being brought down to our own level, or below it, is, I think, the distinct notion of envy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47139]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making units, the structuring of their incentives, and the counterbalancing of the units against one another, rather than on the more usual (and more exciting) principle of substituting "the good guys" for "the bad guys.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amiable weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amiable weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang,  The apple into blossom burst,   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang,  The apple into blossom burst,   To life the grass and violets sprang.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could see a movement in the country toward food and fitness, and we thought we could be successful in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31596]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could see a movement in the country toward food and fitness, and we thought we could be successful in that niche.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets are all who love,--who feel great truths, And tell them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets are all who love,--who feel great truths, And tell them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite a number of observers have commented on my coolness during various riotous concerts which I performed at during those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite a number of observers have commented on my coolness during various riotous concerts which I performed at during those first tumultuous years of the armistice between World War I and World War II. The reason is very simple: I was armed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. -John ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55241]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. -John Wooden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55241</guid></item></channel></rss>