<?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 fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38405]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English. [Fr., Quoique leurs chapeaux sont bien laids, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13902]]></link><description><![CDATA[In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English. [Fr., Quoique leurs chapeaux sont bien laids,  Goddam! j'aime les anglais.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, We will stand by each other, however it blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, We will stand by each other, however it blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Stephen Sly and old John Naps of Greece, And Peter Turph and Henry Pimpernell, And twenty more such names ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55702]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Stephen Sly and old John Naps of Greece, And Peter Turph and Henry Pimpernell, And twenty more such names and men as these Which never were, nor no man ever saw. -The Taming of the Shrew. Induc. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a living image of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a living image of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things in their beeing are good for something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49110]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things in their beeing are good for something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always special to do that. Then to have it on your homecoming night, especially as a senior ... that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28802]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always special to do that. Then to have it on your homecoming night, especially as a senior ... that's even more special.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47660]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the way, The works of women are symbolical.  We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull out sight,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62077]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the way, The works of women are symbolical.  We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull out sight,   Producing what? A pair of slippers, sir,    To put on when you're weary--or a stool     To tumble over and vex you . . . curse that stool!      Or else at best, a cushion where you lean       And sleep, and dream of something we are not,        But would be for your sake. Alas, alas!         This hurts most, this . . . that, after all, we are paid          The worth of our work, perhaps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43633]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest form of television. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest form of television.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose only one master - Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose only one master - Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So shall they build me altars in their zeal, Where knaves shall minister, and fools shall kneel:  Where faith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62315]]></link><description><![CDATA[So shall they build me altars in their zeal, Where knaves shall minister, and fools shall kneel:  Where faith may mutter o'er her mystic spell,   Written in blood--and Bigotry may swell    The sail he spreads for Heav'n with blasts from hell!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will have to act like a serious efficient government with a small number of ministers, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35815]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will have to act like a serious efficient government with a small number of ministers,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every honest miller has a golden thumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every honest miller has a golden thumb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65868]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22740]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33739]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28043]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  Prayer and love are learned in the hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart has turned to stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She really looked strong out there. She lost it a little bit at the end, but she came back. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39444]]></link><description><![CDATA[She really looked strong out there. She lost it a little bit at the end, but she came back. That's what I like about her, she'll always come back strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they'd pass the information on and they'd have it cleaned up. I guess when I called the police, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39051]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they'd pass the information on and they'd have it cleaned up. I guess when I called the police, they passed it on to the highway department.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22542]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19887]]></link><description><![CDATA[A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good hitter has timing.A good pitcher upsets timing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57437]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good hitter has timing.A good pitcher upsets timing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This song obviously has special meaning to me in more ways than one. I want people to know more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33095]]></link><description><![CDATA[This song obviously has special meaning to me in more ways than one. I want people to know more than anything -- gay, straight, whatever -- just how cool Willie is and ... his way of thinking, his tolerance, everything about him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18090]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44056]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left  Where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13918]]></link><description><![CDATA[England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left  Where English minds and manners may be found,   Shall be constrained to love thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43007]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the kids go back to school, you start seeing a lot of backpacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40697]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the kids go back to school, you start seeing a lot of backpacks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63600]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without attending to the main ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without attending to the main thing it is about; like reading Burke with no interest in politics, or reading the Aeneid with no interest in Rome... But there is a saner sense in which the Bible -- since it is, after all, literature -- cannot properly be read except as literature, and the different parts of it as the different sorts of literature they are. Most emphatically, the Psalms must be read as poems -- as lyrics, with all the licenses and all the formalities, the hyperboles, the emotional rather than logical connections, which are proper to lyric poetry... Otherwise we shall miss what is in them and think we see what is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone is just trying to ball up on the bottom, that's when you know you have to throw something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33875]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone is just trying to ball up on the bottom, that's when you know you have to throw something big. I just felt I had to go upper-body and throw him ... This is awesome to win three [WPIAL team titles]. It's just like winning the other two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47491]]></link><description><![CDATA[War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have rather finished the match properly, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41744]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have rather finished the match properly,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can see a lot of ex-wives and ex-husbands just having a heyday with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39436]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can see a lot of ex-wives and ex-husbands just having a heyday with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55444]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can travel faster than sound, yes, but not nearly so fast as rumor! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28072]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can travel faster than sound, yes, but not nearly so fast as rumor!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43668]]></link><description><![CDATA[One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's disappointing to see a family member hurt. I want him to have as big a year as I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38182]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's disappointing to see a family member hurt. I want him to have as big a year as I want to have for myself. But he's a great player and I know that he's going to be fine, so I trust that he's going to be back to 100 percent pretty soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38182</guid></item></channel></rss>