<?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 name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2379]]></link><description><![CDATA["The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn." --George Washington]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falling in love is like jumping off a really tall building. Your brain tells you it is not a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falling in love is like jumping off a really tall building. Your brain tells you it is not a good idea, but your heart tells you, you can fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is plain as a pike staff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is plain as a pike staff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22114]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be illegal to apply this proposed definition to any federal contract. The minority small business community is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28540]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be illegal to apply this proposed definition to any federal contract. The minority small business community is not well served by a resolution that flies in the face of existing laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to send you by fax a list of ingredients. And I want you to come up with recipes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to send you by fax a list of ingredients. And I want you to come up with recipes for lovers that (are) easy. Because if you're going to spend the day cooking, you won't have any energy left for love-making.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  We must frankly face ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  We must frankly face the fact that there is in this teaching a revolutionary element which could be dangerously subversive of our existing ways of thought. Let us admit that it is part of the fallen human nature of ecclesiastics, no less than of others in responsible positions, to desire always criteria of judgement which can be used without making too heavy demands upon the delicate faculty of spiritual discernment, clear-cut rules by which we may hope to be saved from making mistakes -- or rather, from being obviously and personally responsible for the mistakes. We are uncomfortable without definite principles by which we may guide our steps. We fear uncharted country, and the fanatics of all kinds who, upon the alleged authority of the Holy Spirit, summon us with strident cries in all directions simultaneously. Only those who have never borne the heavy burden of pastoral responsibility will mock at the cautious spirit of the ecclesiastic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned from each of them, Jim, Joe and Steve about the positive things it takes to run a football ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned from each of them, Jim, Joe and Steve about the positive things it takes to run a football program. They taught me it takes not only hard work in recruiting, but building mental toughness. Football is mental as well as physical. It starts with each person believing they can get the job done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21900]]></link><description><![CDATA[If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The compromise we made with the AA this time was a fair one. It is a privilege for us to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The compromise we made with the AA this time was a fair one. It is a privilege for us to use these courts and in order to continue using them we need to work together so that the courts stay in good condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really a tragic situation from our perspective. Something we are very concerned about in terms of the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42172]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really a tragic situation from our perspective. Something we are very concerned about in terms of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only is there no God, but trying getting a plumber on weekends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only is there no God, but trying getting a plumber on weekends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit  Beneath my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3547]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit  Beneath my shady roof; there thou mayest rest   And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe,    And all the daughters of the year shall dance!     Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46618]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10775]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a major challenge. We are aware of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28277]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a major challenge. We are aware of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These arrests make absolutely clear the presence throughout Europe and in Spain of members or collaborators of radical Islamic terrorist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29318]]></link><description><![CDATA[These arrests make absolutely clear the presence throughout Europe and in Spain of members or collaborators of radical Islamic terrorist organizations, and that is a cause for continuing concern,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10870]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not sure life was meant to be lived in a managed way...if so, no wonder we have difficulties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not sure life was meant to be lived in a managed way...if so, no wonder we have difficulties with things like time management.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64425]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59046]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across  The gray-green oaks; and catching,   By its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58281]]></link><description><![CDATA[See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across  The gray-green oaks; and catching,   By its soft brown beard, the moss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52750]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, man, defy the devil? Consider, he's an enemy to mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12173]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, man, defy the devil? Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17523]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for himself, not for another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47110]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51894]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On with the dance, let joy be unconfined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48755]]></link><description><![CDATA[On with the dance, let joy be unconfined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9371]]></link><description><![CDATA[One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cruante que d'estre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cruante que d'estre humain, et humanite d'estre cruel.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54924]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54924</guid></item></channel></rss>