<?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[Assurance is two-thirds of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assurance is two-thirds of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38794]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45074]]></link><description><![CDATA[I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're an unselfish group willing to do whatever it takes to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33680]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're an unselfish group willing to do whatever it takes to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58163]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haven't you ever been using an operating system and said, 'Well, that's stupid, why do the menus look like that?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haven't you ever been using an operating system and said, 'Well, that's stupid, why do the menus look like that?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had a thousand major shareholders that I know would be selling stock because of portfolio diversification, I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37826]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had a thousand major shareholders that I know would be selling stock because of portfolio diversification, I would rather do a secondary offering than have them sell in dribs and drabs. It makes a lot of sense to do it in one fell swoop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27545]]></link><description><![CDATA[That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17902]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine,  Whose breast of waters broadly swells  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine,  Whose breast of waters broadly swells   Between the banks which bear the vine,    And hills all rich with blossom'd trees,     And fields which promise corn and wine,      And scatter'd cities crowning these,       Whose far white walls along them shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49554]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will be an informational meeting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40519]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will be an informational meeting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to inquire tomorrow and perhaps make an issue out of it. I'm going to have to see where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37887]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to inquire tomorrow and perhaps make an issue out of it. I'm going to have to see where we stand .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51566]]></link><description><![CDATA[When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8676]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50965]]></link><description><![CDATA[After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14697]]></link><description><![CDATA[One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's the humour of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55355]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's the humour of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One swallow does not make spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48603]]></link><description><![CDATA[One swallow does not make spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes vision and courage to create--it takes faith and courage to prove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10352]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes vision and courage to create--it takes faith and courage to prove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2544]]></link><description><![CDATA[When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66304]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3652]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay,  We must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61240]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay,  We must worship its light though it is not our own,   For liberty burst in its ray.    Shall the name of a Washington ever be heard     By a freeman, and thrill not his breast?      Is there one out of bondage that hails not the word,       As a Bethlehem Star of the West?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59389]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64527]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom begins at the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom begins at the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6070]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,  And I will look on both indifferently;   For let the gods so speed me as I love    The name of honor more than I fear death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice is the child of ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice is the child of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As by the way of innuendo Lucus is made a non lucendo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59678]]></link><description><![CDATA[As by the way of innuendo Lucus is made a non lucendo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US has a vital interest in that area of the country [Latin America]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The US has a vital interest in that area of the country [Latin America].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to make anything fool- proof because fools are so ingenious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16397]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to make anything fool- proof because fools are so ingenious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64879]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager administers; the leader innovates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21668]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager administers; the leader innovates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21668</guid></item></channel></rss>