<?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[Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -George Bernard Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm getting jobs because people like me on a show. I'll take it. It's nice to hear that someone like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm getting jobs because people like me on a show. I'll take it. It's nice to hear that someone like a Matt Groening is a fan of the show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25373]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own,  For neither praise nor pelf: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18268]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own,  For neither praise nor pelf:   Content to know and be unknown:    Whole in himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just trying to figure out how this will fit into that agreement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38195]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just trying to figure out how this will fit into that agreement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be ready to play whether it's Monday or Saturday. We're still at home, so that's cool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39141]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be ready to play whether it's Monday or Saturday. We're still at home, so that's cool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being named outstanding wrestler talks about his character as well as his wrestling skills. When coaches talk about David, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being named outstanding wrestler talks about his character as well as his wrestling skills. When coaches talk about David, they always talk about what a great person he is first and that means more to me than anything because that's what will take him a long way in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2720]]></link><description><![CDATA[His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Production is the only answer to inflation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Production is the only answer to inflation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even after 9/11, when their life-saving role became clear, employers have dragged their feet on raising wages to a mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even after 9/11, when their life-saving role became clear, employers have dragged their feet on raising wages to a mostly African-American workforce. Four years after 9/11, the real estate industry has short-changed security officers, undermined the safety of their own buildings and jeopardized the well-being of the entire city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men of faith might claim for their positions ancient tradition, practical usefulness, and spiritual desirability, but one query could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men of faith might claim for their positions ancient tradition, practical usefulness, and spiritual desirability, but one query could prick all such bubbles: Is it scientific? That question has searched religion for contraband goods, stripped it of old superstitions, forced it to change its categories of thought and methods of work, and in general has so cowed and scared religion that many modern-minded believers... instinctively throw up their hands at the mere whisper of it... When a prominent scientist comes out strongly for religion, all the churches thank Heaven and take courage, as though it were the highest possible compliment to God to have Eddington believe in Him. Science has become the arbiter of this generation's thought, until to call even a prophet and a seer 'scientific' is to cap the climax of praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works and Thoughts, if they are always to be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5514]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works and Thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24867]]></link><description><![CDATA[St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45482]]></link><description><![CDATA[The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None but the brave deserve the fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48948]]></link><description><![CDATA[None but the brave deserve the fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is obviously the most thorny problem. The situation is still brittle, even though the Gate Gourmet dispute is nearly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31738]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is obviously the most thorny problem. The situation is still brittle, even though the Gate Gourmet dispute is nearly over and BA is back working. There remains the possibility things will erupt again,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's got his very own jacuzzi. He can go sit in the sun, or have a dip in the water, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39317]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's got his very own jacuzzi. He can go sit in the sun, or have a dip in the water, the same ritual as in the wild.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the outside portrait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34485]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare not hope to please a Cinna's ear. Or sing what Varus might vouchsafe to hear;  Harsh are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare not hope to please a Cinna's ear. Or sing what Varus might vouchsafe to hear;  Harsh are the sweetest lays that I can bring,   So screams a goose where swans melodious sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers:  To some she gives honor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers:  To some she gives honor without deserving;   To other some, deserving without honor;    Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth;     Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!   - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45785]]></link><description><![CDATA[One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!   - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I know is that you love me...in my dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10917]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I know is that you love me...in my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can no longer allow America’s dependence on foreign oil to compromise our energy security. Instead, we must invest in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13325]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can no longer allow America’s dependence on foreign oil to compromise our energy security. Instead, we must invest in inventing new ways to power our cars and our economy. I’ll put my faith in American science and ingenuity any day before I depend on Saudi Arabia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right as a trivet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right as a trivet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As any bidder, Smith & Johnson was required to secure services of a bonding company in the role of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38058]]></link><description><![CDATA[As any bidder, Smith & Johnson was required to secure services of a bonding company in the role of an insurance company. If for whatever reason the contractor is unable to perform, the bonding company steps in and takes over responsibility for the work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own sensitivity with the suffering of one's fellow human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[D'Adam nous sommes tous enfants, La prove en est connue,  Et que tous, nos premier parents   Ont ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2488]]></link><description><![CDATA[D'Adam nous sommes tous enfants, La prove en est connue,  Et que tous, nos premier parents   Ont mene la charrue.    Mais, las de cultiver enfin     La terre labouree      L'une a detele le matin,       L'autre l'apres-dinee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe we will be in the black, ... What I'm trying to do is a balancing act. The more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41851]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe we will be in the black, ... What I'm trying to do is a balancing act. The more money we make, the more we put in the field. That's the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16492]]></link><description><![CDATA[To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked dolphins the most? I'd say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked dolphins the most? I'd say Flippy, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong, though. It's Hambone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Law of Socio-Genetics: Celibacy is not hereditary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17289]]></link><description><![CDATA[First Law of Socio-Genetics: Celibacy is not hereditary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19519]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This woman is amazing. I should take her to one of the classes I teach on debt, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39470]]></link><description><![CDATA[This woman is amazing. I should take her to one of the classes I teach on debt,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age,  People are apt to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/689]]></link><description><![CDATA[And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age,  People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth,   And wonder Providence is not more sage.    Adversity is the first path to truth:     He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage,      Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty,       Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The testing went quite well with the new rules that add this extra weight. It makes the car a bit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42292]]></link><description><![CDATA[The testing went quite well with the new rules that add this extra weight. It makes the car a bit more difficult and challenging for us. Because it was just testing, I'm curious to see how the car is and things are during the race with everyone out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42292</guid></item></channel></rss>