<?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[I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4719]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the slavery of the free ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the slavery of the free]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one is the architect of his own fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one is the architect of his own fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20544]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25390]]></link><description><![CDATA[At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what now you feel;Achilles absent was Achilles still:Yet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid. - Iliad, The.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent,  April-blooms upon the breezes toss ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent,  April-blooms upon the breezes toss them.   April knows her own, and is content.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16326]]></link><description><![CDATA[To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm good at reading people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm good at reading people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's been close to decision-making for a long time and observed several prime ministers. He's had all the training that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34783]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's been close to decision-making for a long time and observed several prime ministers. He's had all the training that's required and he certainly has the capabilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time out for tack, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time out for tack,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is anything you did and fear others to know about ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is anything you did and fear others to know about]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In time of war the first casualty is truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27850]]></link><description><![CDATA[In time of war the first casualty is truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort, is not fit to be deemed a scholar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58018]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort, is not fit to be deemed a scholar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Future Shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Future Shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. -Alvin Toffler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze;  Like children with violets playing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze;  Like children with violets playing,   In the shade of the whispering trees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most concerned of the first time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15157]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plus those guys don't have mascots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plus those guys don't have mascots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again a different meaning has to be understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again a different meaning has to be understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, and something happens, and out--nobody knows you on the street. They forget you ever lived. It happens in Hollywood, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are exposed to it with TV, music, pop culture, it becomes more acceptable. It's just part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30029]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are exposed to it with TV, music, pop culture, it becomes more acceptable. It's just part of the everyday lives. . . . With the older generation it's more foreign to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cry every chance I get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27832]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cry every chance I get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. -Benjamin Disraeli.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world  Is full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world  Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen   Enough of all its sorrows, crimes and cares,    To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood     And view the haunts of Nature. The calm shade      Shall bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze       That makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm        To thy sick heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now this is the ground and original of the Spirit of Love in the creature, it is and must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now this is the ground and original of the Spirit of Love in the creature, it is and must be a will to all goodness; and you have not the Spirit of Love in you till you have this will to all goodness at all times and on all occasions. You may indeed do many works of love and delight in them -- especially at such times as they are not inconvenient to your state or temper or occurrences in life. But the Spirit of Love is not in you till it is the spirit of your life, till you live freely, willingly, and universally according to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll give thee armor to keep off that word; Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,  To comfort thee, though thou art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46498]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll give thee armor to keep off that word; Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,  To comfort thee, though thou art banished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man...should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man...should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20598]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16396]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,  And never going aright, being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,  And never going aright, being a watch,   But being watched that it may still go right!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to serve more aggressive. We work very hard on serving every day in practice. If we back off, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33813]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to serve more aggressive. We work very hard on serving every day in practice. If we back off, especially against good teams, they will pound away on us. We want to make the other team work hard to pick up our serve. We don't want to make it easy to hit the ball back at us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46606]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46606</guid></item></channel></rss>