<?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 world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27083]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62788]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of function. The more differentiated and specialized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of function. The more differentiated and specialized the parts, the more elaborate co-ordination is needed to create a well-balanced whole. The ultimate criterion of the value of a functional whole is the degree of its internal harmony or integratedness, whether the "functional whole" is a biological species or a civilization or an individual. A whole is defined by the pattern of relations between its parts, not by the sum of its parts; and a civilization is not defined by the sum of its science, technology, art and social organization, but by the total pattern which they form, and the degree of harmonious integration in that pattern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees ofgrace at any given moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21973]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees ofgrace at any given moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43759]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A secret at home is like rocks under tide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54986]]></link><description><![CDATA[A secret at home is like rocks under tide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance is a great promoter of admiration! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance is a great promoter of admiration!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be it not in thy care. Go, I charge thee, invite them all; let in the tide  Of knaves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be it not in thy care. Go, I charge thee, invite them all; let in the tide  Of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43710]]></link><description><![CDATA[No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About 150 families were killed, and hundreds of families were deported from there, and they destroyed the village, they destroyed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29839]]></link><description><![CDATA[About 150 families were killed, and hundreds of families were deported from there, and they destroyed the village, they destroyed the orchards,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fish adores the bait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fish adores the bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45378]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't winunless you hate them—and then you destroy yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't winunless you hate them—and then you destroy yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32256]]></link><description><![CDATA[You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life!" And yet can we cast out of our spirits all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17243]]></link><description><![CDATA["The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life!" And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we came out in the second half -- once we kind of settled in -- and played pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31306]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we came out in the second half -- once we kind of settled in -- and played pretty well. We just made so many mistakes early that we let it get away from us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55519]]></link><description><![CDATA[A proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For right is right, since God is God, And right the day must win;  To doubt would be disloyalty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54244]]></link><description><![CDATA[For right is right, since God is God, And right the day must win;  To doubt would be disloyalty,   To falter would be sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4619]]></link><description><![CDATA[At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of nothing in particular, I perceived coming towards me, a tall, beardless, fair-haired young fellow, wearing a German cap and gold-rimmed spectacles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55335]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe not a liar, even when he is speaking the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48888]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe not a liar, even when he is speaking the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me your profession, and I will anticipate your beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me your profession, and I will anticipate your beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We aren't going to go out and support an opponent of the current governor and sully the name of teachers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We aren't going to go out and support an opponent of the current governor and sully the name of teachers before a special session.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God provides for him that trusteth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49274]]></link><description><![CDATA[God provides for him that trusteth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27982]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17861]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His neck is high and erect, his head replete with intelligence, his belly short, his back full, and his proud ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19849]]></link><description><![CDATA[His neck is high and erect, his head replete with intelligence, his belly short, his back full, and his proud chest swells with hard muscles. [Lat., Ardua cervix,  Argumtumque caput, brevis alvos, obessaque terga,   Luxuriatque toris animosum pectus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15852]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're a good team. They were a lot better than what we expected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34398]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're a good team. They were a lot better than what we expected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many who find the burdens, the anxiety, and the isolation of an individual existence unbearable. This is particularly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52353]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many who find the burdens, the anxiety, and the isolation of an individual existence unbearable. This is particularly true when the opportunities for self-advancement are relatively meager, and one's individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for. Such persons sooner or later turn their backs on an individual existence and strive to acquire a sense of worth and a purpose by an identification with a holy cause, a leader, or a movement. The faith and pride they derive from such an identification serve them as substitutes for the unattainable self-confidence and self-respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate him to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate him to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. [Lat., Pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. [Lat., Pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few actions on Earth more profane than a governmental dream holding hostage the well-being of humanity. When such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38891]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few actions on Earth more profane than a governmental dream holding hostage the well-being of humanity. When such an abrogation occurs, the moral obligation between the government and the people dissolves, and ethics is reduced to insignificance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to know you can beat a team you've never beaten before. It's very nice because you work on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31207]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to know you can beat a team you've never beaten before. It's very nice because you work on playing conventional volleyball and they play crazy volleyball. It frustrates the fool out of you. But we worked hard, persevering, passing and not giving up even though they dug us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known war as few men now living know it. It's verydestructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known war as few men now living know it. It's verydestructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a meansof settling international disputes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Variable pay is designed to help employees concentrate on company goals and objectives, while eliminating 'entitlement' issues that often arise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Variable pay is designed to help employees concentrate on company goals and objectives, while eliminating 'entitlement' issues that often arise with a holiday bonus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. [Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. [Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God loves an idle rainbow, No less than laboring seas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52948]]></link><description><![CDATA[God loves an idle rainbow, No less than laboring seas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suretyship is the precursor of ruin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suretyship is the precursor of ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51766</guid></item></channel></rss>