<?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 two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fair face may make a foul bargain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50956]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fair face may make a foul bargain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17494]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60612]]></link><description><![CDATA[I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you get bigger and your customer base gets as older, you're forced to become stodgy and conservative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42163]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you get bigger and your customer base gets as older, you're forced to become stodgy and conservative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5639]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The service was of great array, That they were served with that day.  Thus they ate, and made them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The service was of great array, That they were served with that day.  Thus they ate, and made them glad,   With such service as they had--    When they had dined, as I you say,     Lordis and ladies yede to play;      Some to tables and some to chess,       With other games more and less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's extremity is God's opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's extremity is God's opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grasp the subject, the words will follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grasp the subject, the words will follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26114]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I need drama in my life to keep making music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65414]]></link><description><![CDATA[I need drama in my life to keep making music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63641]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They tried to make other people beat them, which we did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28361]]></link><description><![CDATA[They tried to make other people beat them, which we did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cost of living is dying, everybody pays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cost of living is dying, everybody pays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:  Uneasy lies the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:  Uneasy lies the heads of all that rule,   His worst of all whose kingdom is a school.    Supreme he sits; before the awful frown     That binds his brows the boldest eye goes down;      Not more submissive Israel heard and saw       At Sinai's foot the Giver of the Law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are will show in what you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21246]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are will show in what you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's healthy to have a decent lag time between discs, but if there's too much time in between, there might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31641]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's healthy to have a decent lag time between discs, but if there's too much time in between, there might be a drop off in interest. What amazes me is that no matter how obscure or generic a TV show might be, there's always someone who'll buy it. As long as the studios recognize this, they can manufacture modest quantities and generate respectable sales.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children in Iraq are seriously suffering psychologically with all the insecurity, especially with the fear of kidnapping and explosions. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children in Iraq are seriously suffering psychologically with all the insecurity, especially with the fear of kidnapping and explosions. In some cases, they?re found to be suffering extreme stress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not for the money this time. The one thing we can't live with is class size and composition. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30779]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not for the money this time. The one thing we can't live with is class size and composition. We know that in going out, we're going to harm students, but this time, staying in the class will harm students. Do we go out, or do we stay in the class and watch students being harmed?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. (1640). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. (1640).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43599]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63776]]></link><description><![CDATA[How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se  Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aggregates industry may end up being like the dolphins getting stuck in the net with the tuna. If they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28418]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aggregates industry may end up being like the dolphins getting stuck in the net with the tuna. If they amend the (Mine Safety) Act, I don't see how they are going to differentiate between the different categories of mining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   We must be willing to accept the bitter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to those who love us. But it is necessary that we face this also. The full acceptance of our abjection and uselessness is the virtue that can make us and others rich in the grace of God. It takes heroic charity and humility to let others sustain us when we are absolutely incapable of sustaining ourselves. We cannot suffer well unless we see Christ everywhere, both in suffering and in the charity of those who come to the aid of our affliction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a lot of confidence coming in. I told them to treat it like a championship but to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42381]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a lot of confidence coming in. I told them to treat it like a championship but to have fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is true that Perry March was named as a suspect in this case in search warrant documentation in mid-September ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33718]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is true that Perry March was named as a suspect in this case in search warrant documentation in mid-September of 1996, but to assume or presume that a police officer was with Perry March every second of the day in August and September of 1996 would not be correct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He won't, won't he? Then bring me my boots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48614]]></link><description><![CDATA[He won't, won't he? Then bring me my boots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60062]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19580]]></link><description><![CDATA[PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to push and pull my Hispanic people into the community. I tell them learn the language, learn the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29096]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to push and pull my Hispanic people into the community. I tell them learn the language, learn the customs, be comfortable to live here. I never support segregation. I want integration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10058]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10058</guid></item></channel></rss>