<?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[Hanging and wiving go by destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanging and wiving go by destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43123]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jury nullification allowed citizens to come together and override the law. It is their right to acquit. There may be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jury nullification allowed citizens to come together and override the law. It is their right to acquit. There may be a situation where the sheriff or law may not be following the law and I will respect jury's and citizen's decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The giving of love is an education in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The giving of love is an education in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've felt better with the way I was just getting the puck up ice, playing smart defensively and playing well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've felt better with the way I was just getting the puck up ice, playing smart defensively and playing well on the PK (penalty kill). I'm just trying to carry that into these last games of the season here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric  Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25121]]></link><description><![CDATA[For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric  Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,   To smatter French is meritorious.   - Samuel Butler (1),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32737]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60870]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is to man a god or a wolf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is to man a god or a wolf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone, But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone, But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women carry on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head. -Lady Marguerite Blessington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27225]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head. -Lady Marguerite Blessington.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Two PotsA river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Two PotsA river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass. The Earthen Pot said to the Brass Pot, Pray keep at a distance and do not come near me, for if you touch me ever so slightly, I shall be broken in pieces, and besides, I by no means wish to come near you. Equals make the best friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/192]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64483]]></link><description><![CDATA[People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the kind of intractable problem that can probably only be resolved through negotiations, and those negotiations may have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37502]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the kind of intractable problem that can probably only be resolved through negotiations, and those negotiations may have to include the Boeing- Airbus dispute - which, given its complexity, should be settled through negotiations anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a good rebounding team because of technique and attitude. It helps that we have a lot of big men. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40553]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a good rebounding team because of technique and attitude. It helps that we have a lot of big men. But we still have to have the right form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just get him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29446]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just get him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43623]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23077]]></link><description><![CDATA[True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing,  Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9923]]></link><description><![CDATA[But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing,  Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne,   The Cherub Contemplation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39349]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53024]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am responsible only to God and history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am responsible only to God and history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13409]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a very volatile situation, one that has been going on for a month and will not go away. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37218]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a very volatile situation, one that has been going on for a month and will not go away. The U.S. has made it pretty clear they will react with overwhelming force if they feel threatened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56372]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.  The wise for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.  The wise for cure on exercise depend;   God never made his work for man to mend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll take donations of any amount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35646]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll take donations of any amount.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without a friend is death without a witness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without a friend is death without a witness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a history in football but what is the history of this guy, this midget [Michael Owen]? He ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a history in football but what is the history of this guy, this midget [Michael Owen]? He ought to clean his tongue and wash the boots of David Beckham as they are so wet tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65334]]></link><description><![CDATA[For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The writer] warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38664]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The writer] warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it just me or do we seem to ignore the intelligent people in politics and focus on the radical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it just me or do we seem to ignore the intelligent people in politics and focus on the radical idiots?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nostalgia is a seductive liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nostalgia is a seductive liar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1339]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, when the establishment seeks to preserve the status quo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36282</guid></item></channel></rss>