<?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[There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59964]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away;  Agayne I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16483]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away;  Agayne I wrote it with a second hand,   But came the tyde and made my paynes his prey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18799]]></link><description><![CDATA[You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's starting to settle in by getting in a groove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38568]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's starting to settle in by getting in a groove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47769]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not. [Fr., Un tiens vaut, ce dit-on, mieux que deux tu l'auras.  L'un est sur, l'autre ne l'est pas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49838]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet what are they, the learned and the great? Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!  Who shall presume to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet what are they, the learned and the great? Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!  Who shall presume to prophesy their date,   Where nought is certain save the uncertainty of fate?   - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is well paid that is well satisfied, And I delivering you am satisfied,  And therein do account myself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54732]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is well paid that is well satisfied, And I delivering you am satisfied,  And therein do account myself well paid;   My mind was never yet more mercenary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slow rises worth by poverty depressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slow rises worth by poverty depressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come  Whate'er the subject be that starts.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10085]]></link><description><![CDATA[With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come  Whate'er the subject be that starts.   But if I get among the glum    I hold my tongue to tell the truth     And keep my breath to cool my broth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need certainly to take all the steps we can take to make sure the elections will not be derailed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37522]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need certainly to take all the steps we can take to make sure the elections will not be derailed by the violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic guitar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic guitar ability, ... I want to sing and play so it has to be three chords. I can only do three chords and not look at the guitar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I am concerned with here is not to write a new life of Jesus, but to set down my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7658]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I am concerned with here is not to write a new life of Jesus, but to set down my witness to the continued shocks which his words and deeds gave me as I approached the Gospels uninsulated by the familiar cover of beautiful language. The figure who emerged is quite unlike the Jesus of conventional piety, and even more unlike that imagined hero whom members of various causes claim as their champion. What we are so often confronted with today is a "processed" Jesus. Every element that we feel is not consonant with our "image" of him is removed, and the result is more insipid and unsatisfying than the worst of processed food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured. [Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51675]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured. [Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42887]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires. . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God deliver me from the venom of the cobra, the toothof the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47956]]></link><description><![CDATA[God deliver me from the venom of the cobra, the toothof the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Danger) didn't even come to my mind at the time. I was just thinking of getting the police officers out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31825]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Danger) didn't even come to my mind at the time. I was just thinking of getting the police officers out of the car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27797]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is argument carried on by other means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is argument carried on by other means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31469]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most part have always been heavily rooted in reality. The first artists were the people next door. They would sing on their porch or in their living room or at a barn dance. They sang about what they knew, and a lot of that was drinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've got a lot of guys who can hit the home run so we've got to be ready. And we've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39668]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've got a lot of guys who can hit the home run so we've got to be ready. And we've got to tackle Lamont Jordan. He's a big running back, a bruiser with a lot of speed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63786]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44325]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19908]]></link><description><![CDATA[My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1928]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're now looking at going over there to begin discussions. It does require bilateral discussions with another country, but we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're now looking at going over there to begin discussions. It does require bilateral discussions with another country, but we're cautiously looking at being there by the fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination rules the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5428]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased,  The which observed, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48463]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased,  The which observed, a man may prophesy,   With a near aim, of the main chance of things    As yet not come to life, which in their seeds     And weak beginnings lie intreasured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders. - Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788   I met the society and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788   I met the society and explained to them ... the original design of the Methodists, namely, not to be a distinct party, but to stir up all parties, ... to worship God in spirit and in truth; but the Church of England in particular, to which they belonged from the beginning. With this view I have uniformly gone on for fifty years, never varying from the doctrine of the Church at all; nor from her discipline, of choice, but of necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not sure who are No. 2 is going to be. As of now, we're just calling him Johnny All-Staff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not sure who are No. 2 is going to be. As of now, we're just calling him Johnny All-Staff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42474]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45419]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant dripping hollows out a stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant dripping hollows out a stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sceptre snatched with an unruly hand Must be as boisterously maintained as gained,  And he that stands upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19172]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sceptre snatched with an unruly hand Must be as boisterously maintained as gained,  And he that stands upon a slippery place   Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that's the area that's most disappointing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that's the area that's most disappointing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20377]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12244]]></link><description><![CDATA[At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent. -Golda Meir.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12244</guid></item></channel></rss>