<?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[It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29545]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our sweetest hours fly fastest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51781]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our sweetest hours fly fastest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water pressure is very high on these earth-made dams and there are more in danger of collapse as the floods ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water pressure is very high on these earth-made dams and there are more in danger of collapse as the floods last a long time and the levels are decreasing very slowly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was quite audacious and highly inappropriate. What was he afraid of being asked? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28416]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was quite audacious and highly inappropriate. What was he afraid of being asked?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18229]]></link><description><![CDATA[A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a craft not an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a craft not an art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14910]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the German people lay down their weapons, the Soviets, according to the agreement between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the German people lay down their weapons, the Soviets, according to the agreement between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, would occupy all of East and Southeast Europe along with the greater part of the Reich. An iron curtain would fall over this enormous territory controlled by the Soviet Union, behind which nations would be slaughtered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caring is a powerful business advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caring is a powerful business advantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dad was a pretty poor guy, he didn't have a whole lot of money. He always wanted something for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38826]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dad was a pretty poor guy, he didn't have a whole lot of money. He always wanted something for my brother and myself, some kind of business. He'd asked the owners of this course to call him if it ever came up for sale, and one day, they called. I had a scholarship offer to Ohio State and my dad said, 'Son, what do you want to do, cut grass or go to school?' I said, what do you want me to do, Dad? He said, 'Well, I can't afford any help.' I said, 'No problem, Dad, I'll help you cut grass.' Looking back, I think I made the right decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust is the most important thing in any sort of relationship. If you don't find then build an invisible wall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust is the most important thing in any sort of relationship. If you don't find then build an invisible wall between people and say only those things which they deserve to hear, but don't break relations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll potch at him some way; Or wrath or craft may get him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll potch at him some way; Or wrath or craft may get him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51255]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus said; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62036]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus said; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At whose sight, like the sun, All others with diminish'd lustre shone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9150]]></link><description><![CDATA[At whose sight, like the sun, All others with diminish'd lustre shone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright  From the ice roof depending; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright  From the ice roof depending; and beneath,   Grottoes and temples with their crystal spires    And gleaming columns radiant in the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will not supply gas to the national grid until the government settles our bills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30569]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will not supply gas to the national grid until the government settles our bills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end truth will out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51406]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end truth will out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took her, like, 7 1/2 hours to get home yesterday, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36131]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took her, like, 7 1/2 hours to get home yesterday,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20161]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs-- That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,  That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not   Corn for the rich men only. With these shreds    They vented their complainings, which being answered     And a petition granted them, a strange one,      To break the heart of generosity,       And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps        As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon,         Shouting their emulation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cause of freedom is the cause of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause of freedom is the cause of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46890]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's headed up here. The hungry will be living on the same street as the captains of industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's headed up here. The hungry will be living on the same street as the captains of industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39419]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his will, is prayer in the deepest sense. This is essential prayer: uttered or unexpressed, it is equally prayer. It is the soul's desire after God going forth in a manifestation, ... the soul striving after God. This is a prayer that may exist without ceasing, consisting, as it does, not in doing or saying this or that, but in temper and attitude of the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4272]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face?  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/145]]></link><description><![CDATA[What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face?  How shall I charm the interval that lowers   Between this time and that sweet time of grace?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57880]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much spends the traveller, more then the abider. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much spends the traveller, more then the abider.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9954]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's my first feel for running in traffic. You have to get the feel for losing down force and play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41462]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's my first feel for running in traffic. You have to get the feel for losing down force and play with that. Nothing at all has surprised me so far. We just have to learn to play in traffic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The FTC is beginning to require] a lot more when they have a problem, ... They are going to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40002]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The FTC is beginning to require] a lot more when they have a problem, ... They are going to make sure one of these doesn't slip through the cracks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60292]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have large bodies of water to moderate the temperatures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37834]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have large bodies of water to moderate the temperatures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accusations of genocide are a very sensitive issue and we are attempting to deal with it as such. The accusations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accusations of genocide are a very sensitive issue and we are attempting to deal with it as such. The accusations are made against the Ottoman regime and are no reflection on the modern Turkish state or Turkish people. I have met to discuss the issue with a range of representatives from the Turkish community and agreed to host a seminar for them to present their view on this period of history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the still small voice that the soul heeds; not the deafening blasts of doom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60940]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the still small voice that the soul heeds; not the deafening blasts of doom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60940</guid></item></channel></rss>