<?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 country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administration’s duplicity and incompetence, I doubt there are many members of Congress who would give them the authority they abused so badly. I know I would not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60245]]></link><description><![CDATA[No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63719]]></link><description><![CDATA[A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Green calm below, blue quietness above. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Green calm below, blue quietness above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now my soul hath elbow-room. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now my soul hath elbow-room. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the GrasshopperAn Ass having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the GrasshopperAn Ass having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on to give them such beautiful voices. They replied, The dew. The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60489]]></link><description><![CDATA[He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8948]]></link><description><![CDATA[College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man knows he is young while he is young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62581]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man knows he is young while he is young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The line with its rod is a long instrument whose lesser end holds a small reptile, while the other is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The line with its rod is a long instrument whose lesser end holds a small reptile, while the other is held by a great fool. [Fr., La ligne avec sa canne est un long instrument,  Dont le plus mince bout tient un petit reptile,   Et dont Pautre est tenu pau un grand imbecile.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had all the size. But we met them halfway and tried to make them score from 10 feet out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37486]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had all the size. But we met them halfway and tried to make them score from 10 feet out instead of 5 feet out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12851]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56916]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To lose a friend is hardship, but to forget them is as if you died too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17000]]></link><description><![CDATA[To lose a friend is hardship, but to forget them is as if you died too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Sampson) recruited me for Oklahoma, but he hasn't called about Indiana. I don't know about going way out to Indiana. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32709]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Sampson) recruited me for Oklahoma, but he hasn't called about Indiana. I don't know about going way out to Indiana. That's pretty far from home. I probably wouldn't have gone there even if Mike Davis was there. It's really far, and I'm trying to stay closer to my family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62747]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ant and the Dove AN ANT went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, andbeing carried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ant and the Dove AN ANT went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, andbeing carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point ofdrowning. A Dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water pluckeda leaf and let it fall into the stream close to her. The Antclimbed onto it and floated in safety to the bank. Shortlyafterwards a birdcatcher came and stood under the tree, and laidhis lime-twigs for the Dove, which sat in the branches. The Ant,perceiving his design, stung him in the foot. In pain thebirdcatcher threw down the twigs, and the noise made the Dovetake wing.One good turn deserves another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is over and Business is Business ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is over and Business is Business]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26975]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64845]]></link><description><![CDATA[You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62024]]></link><description><![CDATA[One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12223]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is that they get allexcited about nothing and then marry him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is that they get allexcited about nothing and then marry him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All autobiography is self-indulgent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3226]]></link><description><![CDATA[All autobiography is self-indulgent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine words dresse ill deedes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine words dresse ill deedes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66685]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45974]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labours of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43131]]></link><description><![CDATA[To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5528]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ideas fail, words come in very handy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20286]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ideas fail, words come in very handy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just never got any breaks. I kept thinking surely we'll get a break somewhere down the line. And we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34443]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just never got any breaks. I kept thinking surely we'll get a break somewhere down the line. And we got some breaks at the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10239]]></link><description><![CDATA[God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, "This is my Country.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who (like him) have writ ill plays before, For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made,  To execute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10747]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who (like him) have writ ill plays before, For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made,  To execute the members of their trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inn of a traveller on his way to Jerusalem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inn of a traveller on his way to Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make it a point not to be over-fascinating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50628</guid></item></channel></rss>