<?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 need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The apples that grew on the fruit-tree of knowledge By woman were pluck'd, and she still wears the prize  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The apples that grew on the fruit-tree of knowledge By woman were pluck'd, and she still wears the prize  To tempt us in theatre, senate, or college--   I mean the love-apples that bloom in the eyes.   - Horace Smith and James Smith,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is helping the child realize his potentialities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13284]]></link><description><![CDATA[This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63143]]></link><description><![CDATA[You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our government has a simple task: recognize our nation’s real problems, and address them in a manner that reflects the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our government has a simple task: recognize our nation’s real problems, and address them in a manner that reflects the priorities of the American people. It sounds simple, but it’s not happening today, and I know you’re as frustrated with Washington as I am]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what so tedious as a twice-told tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57921]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44612]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is truth To the end of reckoning. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is truth To the end of reckoning. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the weakest is thrust to the wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the weakest is thrust to the wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24733]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical. What Paul cares about is plain enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical. What Paul cares about is plain enough to the true heart, however far from plain to the man whose desire to understand goes ahead of his obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry is the sacred disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry is the sacred disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42735]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22549]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is somthing that can not be explained - the force that drives us to protect the ones we care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is somthing that can not be explained - the force that drives us to protect the ones we care about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18584]]></link><description><![CDATA[She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet,  . . . .   Leave the chaff, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet,  . . . .   Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the First Amendment and should surely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the First Amendment and should surely have agreed to stop it long ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a huge agenda for Blair. But in an hour-long meeting, Africa and global warming will take no more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36130]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a huge agenda for Blair. But in an hour-long meeting, Africa and global warming will take no more than 10 minutes each. Those are showpiece elements to Blair's leadership but not the most important issues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our military deserves leadership that matches their service and patriotism. Getting our troops the pay raise they deserve is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our military deserves leadership that matches their service and patriotism. Getting our troops the pay raise they deserve is the very least we can do to show how much we value everything they do for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22194]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Princess and the Pea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Princess and the Pea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm saddened that I have to work at some fundamental areas. I feel I'm starting from scratch at times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36305]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm saddened that I have to work at some fundamental areas. I feel I'm starting from scratch at times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Direct The clasping ivy where to climb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Direct The clasping ivy where to climb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many people who think that Sunday is a sponge to wipe out all the sins of the week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7898]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many people who think that Sunday is a sponge to wipe out all the sins of the week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are ready to talk, but it is just an exploratory conversation, since Brazil isn't negotiating with the United Kingdom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31255]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ready to talk, but it is just an exploratory conversation, since Brazil isn't negotiating with the United Kingdom. The negotiation involves the G-20 (the group of 21 developing countries), Europe, and the United States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow never yet On any human being rose or set. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59458]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow never yet On any human being rose or set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tiger was cracking jokes and relating some locker room stories. He also imitated a few players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tiger was cracking jokes and relating some locker room stories. He also imitated a few players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the president does it, that means it is not illegal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47309]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always. -Willa Cather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growth will be sustained longer than expected. The Fed has more work to do; dollar strength will continue until later ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growth will be sustained longer than expected. The Fed has more work to do; dollar strength will continue until later this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11255]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Pray take them, Sir,--Enough's a Feast; Eat some, and pocket up the rest." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13249]]></link><description><![CDATA["Pray take them, Sir,--Enough's a Feast; Eat some, and pocket up the rest."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had a run up for the yen. Now we're seeing a bit of profit taking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a run up for the yen. Now we're seeing a bit of profit taking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30648</guid></item></channel></rss>