<?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[For, wake where'er he may, man wakes to care and coil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51090]]></link><description><![CDATA[For, wake where'er he may, man wakes to care and coil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12812]]></link><description><![CDATA[And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is the thief of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is the thief of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't think he would play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't think he would play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne:  His valiant peers were placed around,   Their brows with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne:  His valiant peers were placed around,   Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound    (So should desert in arms be crowned).     The lovely Thais by his side,      Sate like a blooming Eastern bride       In flower of youth and beauty's pride.        Happy, happy, happy pair!         None but the brave,          None but the brave,           None but the brave deserve the fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have head the nightingale herself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44538]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have head the nightingale herself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a decision - not an emotion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a decision - not an emotion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish into the vast sea of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24316]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one theory about angling in which I have perfect confidence, and this is that the two words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16115]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one theory about angling in which I have perfect confidence, and this is that the two words, least appropriate to any statement, about it, are the words "always" and "never."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life has been a series of emergencies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65260]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life has been a series of emergencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42052]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19206]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6089]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55580]]></link><description><![CDATA[But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And do these objectors mean to say that, because God has redeemed us from the curse of the law, therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6536]]></link><description><![CDATA[And do these objectors mean to say that, because God has redeemed us from the curse of the law, therefore we owe him nothing, we have no duty now to him? Has not redemption rather made us doubly debtors? We owe him more than ever: we owe his holy law more than ever; more honor, more obedience. Duty has been doubled, not canceled, by our being delivered from the law; and he who says that duty has ceased, because deliverance has come, knows nothing of duty, or law, or deliverance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burroughs was a very political writer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burroughs was a very political writer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One guy used up 572 hours in September, ... If you bring a bunch of 500-pound guys into an all-you-can-eat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31389]]></link><description><![CDATA[One guy used up 572 hours in September, ... If you bring a bunch of 500-pound guys into an all-you-can-eat buffet and they devour everything, there's a point at which the management has to come over and say, 'Enough's enough!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomization, statistical significance, and standard deviations is less than illiterate; he is preconscious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been introducing them to adults for 30 years. It's not that it's not for kids, but the idea that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33849]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been introducing them to adults for 30 years. It's not that it's not for kids, but the idea that they're only for kids.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who worse than a physician Would this report become? But I consider  By med'cine life may be prolonged, yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who worse than a physician Would this report become? But I consider  By med'cine life may be prolonged, yet death   Will seize the doctor too. How ended she?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm hoping Georgia will be able to stop them or do whatever it takes to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32187]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm hoping Georgia will be able to stop them or do whatever it takes to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wisest he in this whole wide land Of hoarding till bent and gray;  For all you can hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17450]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wisest he in this whole wide land Of hoarding till bent and gray;  For all you can hold in your cold, dead hand   Is what you have given away.    . . . .     He gave with a zest and he gave his best;      Give him the best to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That men by reason will it calle may The daisie or elles the eye of day  The emperice, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10986]]></link><description><![CDATA[That men by reason will it calle may The daisie or elles the eye of day  The emperice, and floure of floures alle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15704]]></link><description><![CDATA[An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze;  Like children with violets playing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze;  Like children with violets playing,   In the shade of the whispering trees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My job is to keep people out of court. If there is a (medical) decision with no authority, you go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29390]]></link><description><![CDATA[My job is to keep people out of court. If there is a (medical) decision with no authority, you go to the courts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The governor really doesn't control that. If they choose to operate under a different financial situation, that's up to them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31899]]></link><description><![CDATA[The governor really doesn't control that. If they choose to operate under a different financial situation, that's up to them. They know best what they need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's one of the largest betrayals. People have been led into this false sense of security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40488]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's one of the largest betrayals. People have been led into this false sense of security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be;  But if for any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be;  But if for any wish thou darest not pray,   Then pray to God to cast that wish away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent, ... What is happening across the pages of almost every newspaper is a ruthless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36898]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent, ... What is happening across the pages of almost every newspaper is a ruthless attempt to destroy the young challenger among the Tory modernizers' camp and to keep the Conservatives firmly on the right of British politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19518]]></link><description><![CDATA[They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.  [Fr., La parfaite raison fuit toute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53102]]></link><description><![CDATA[All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.  [Fr., La parfaite raison fuit toute extremite,   Et veut que l'on soit sage avec sobriete.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't expect any major surprises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41951]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't expect any major surprises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man is out of the reach of fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61753]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61753</guid></item></channel></rss>