<?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[Brevity is the soul of lingerie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of lingerie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The war for liberty never ends. One day liberty has to be defended against the power of wealth, on another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The war for liberty never ends. One day liberty has to be defended against the power of wealth, on another day against the intrigues of politicians, on another against the dead hand of bureaucrats, on another against the patrioter and the militarist, on another against the profiteer, and then against the hysteria and the passions of the mobs, against obscurantism and stupidity, against the criminal and against the overrighteous. In this campaign every civilized man is enlisted till he dies, and he only has known the full joy of living who somewhere and at some time has struck a decisive blow for the freedom of the human spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an escalation that we have been expecting, ... The government of Iraq is determined to confront the enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36811]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an escalation that we have been expecting, ... The government of Iraq is determined to confront the enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idle folks have the most labour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idle folks have the most labour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15654]]></link><description><![CDATA[You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weeds are shallow-rooted, Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden,  And choke the herbs for want of husbandry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weeds are shallow-rooted, Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden,  And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23395]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We noticed that. But we've got to take care of this game (George Mason) first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42258]]></link><description><![CDATA[We noticed that. But we've got to take care of this game (George Mason) first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my household, we've already begun energy conservation. In 2006, residential customers as well as commercial and industrial customers, will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32642]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my household, we've already begun energy conservation. In 2006, residential customers as well as commercial and industrial customers, will have to take new measures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest: the sweet sauce of labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest: the sweet sauce of labor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's very happy, and a lot of players need to be happy off the field to be playing well on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35972]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's very happy, and a lot of players need to be happy off the field to be playing well on the field, and I'd say Archie is that kind of person,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until people stop burning, it's going to keep going up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until people stop burning, it's going to keep going up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was OK. But Courtney messed it up. Our free throw shooting definitely carried us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40721]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was OK. But Courtney messed it up. Our free throw shooting definitely carried us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44630]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10157]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively, and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27481]]></link><description><![CDATA[When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively, and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a manuever, the blow with an agreement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51906]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the solution is simple, God is answering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24426]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the solution is simple, God is answering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29034]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60207]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meteor flag of England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16127]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meteor flag of England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11862]]></link><description><![CDATA[For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a fan club with only two fans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a fan club with only two fans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thursday come, and the week's gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thursday come, and the week's gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't forget to love yourself. -Soren Kierkegaard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't forget to love yourself. -Soren Kierkegaard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo.. were war criminalsinterviews recorded in the movie The Fogof War.. (the firebombing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10223]]></link><description><![CDATA[All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo.. were war criminalsinterviews recorded in the movie The Fogof War.. (the firebombing of Tokyo occurred before the atom bombs..100,000 civilians died in one night from American bombs..500,000 altogether over several days say some).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're the first hard coking coal to go into production in the northeast in the last 20 years. We were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33251]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're the first hard coking coal to go into production in the northeast in the last 20 years. We were a developer and now we're a producer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64146]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   We are not only to renounce evil, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours,  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours,  The latest of whose train goes softly out   In the red west.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of saying we all sit together and agree to share the profit is highly problematic because different groups ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of saying we all sit together and agree to share the profit is highly problematic because different groups of people will demand a bigger slice of the pie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60410]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a tragedy, ... I wish it had never happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38546]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a tragedy, ... I wish it had never happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62092]]></link><description><![CDATA[To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defend me, God, from myself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defend me, God, from myself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk; Then howsome'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things  I shall digest it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58625]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk; Then howsome'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things  I shall digest it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The least strength suffices to break what is bruised. [Lat., Minimae vires frangere quassa valent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57944]]></link><description><![CDATA[The least strength suffices to break what is bruised. [Lat., Minimae vires frangere quassa valent.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a good spender God is the Treasurer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49995]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a good spender God is the Treasurer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49995</guid></item></channel></rss>