<?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 preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered ... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas;  Whose flag has braved a thousand years,   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas;  Whose flag has braved a thousand years,   The battle and the breeze!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very happy with the girls -they kept on the attack, ... We lost the third game, and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40981]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very happy with the girls -they kept on the attack, ... We lost the third game, and in Game 4, freshman Balee Cox served four consecutive points. That shifted the momentum, gave us back the lead and we finished it out from there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think that the new draft document is balanced and mentions the rights of North Korea to peaceful nuclear technology ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28842]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think that the new draft document is balanced and mentions the rights of North Korea to peaceful nuclear technology and the possibility of building a light water reactor in due time in the future,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The town was given a pretty clear message that it needed a new site. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39679]]></link><description><![CDATA[The town was given a pretty clear message that it needed a new site.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like Bush because I don't think he understands poverty or the problems of developing countries. Poor countries want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41149]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like Bush because I don't think he understands poverty or the problems of developing countries. Poor countries want to have political independence, too -- the freedom to make decisions for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23887]]></link><description><![CDATA[My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . . with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2476]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55501]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a sword, we have a toasting-fork at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50870]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a sword, we have a toasting-fork at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29843]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyday of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who piss me off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyday of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who piss me off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that al our fathers were under the cloud, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that al our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time undermines us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time undermines us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56922]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As regards rap music, I believe that the "c" is silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20138]]></link><description><![CDATA[As regards rap music, I believe that the "c" is silent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   You have your season, and you have but your season; neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which never has been, never is, and never will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50764]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which never has been, never is, and never will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52525]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47125]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25724]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63448]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31160]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit. [Lat., Magister artis ingenique largitor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit. [Lat., Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love!  Hearts that the world in vain had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love!  Hearts that the world in vain had tried,   And sorrow but more closely tied;    That stood the storm when waves were rough,     Yet in a sunny hour fall off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That goes back to Rich (one of Harry's sons). He started doing it in the '80s, and after he passed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33306]]></link><description><![CDATA[That goes back to Rich (one of Harry's sons). He started doing it in the '80s, and after he passed, we kept on doing it out of respect for him. It was just something he wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65786]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy for the girls. A state championship is something you can take with you the rest of your life. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38080]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy for the girls. A state championship is something you can take with you the rest of your life. They've worked very hard for this, and I'm very happy for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven  To bleed for man, to teach him how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6138]]></link><description><![CDATA[But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven  To bleed for man, to teach him how to live,   And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others /the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions: How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed unto the mighty God of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions: How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;  Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;   I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,    Until I find a place for the Lord, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar is not a time of waste ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar is not a time of waste]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38554]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61047]]></link><description><![CDATA[As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are actually hoping that the special session will work to educators' benefit in that something positive needs to happen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are actually hoping that the special session will work to educators' benefit in that something positive needs to happen in order for (Perry's) re-election to occur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34564</guid></item></channel></rss>