<?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[History is just a portrayal of crimes and misfortunes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19484]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is just a portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, you are you and that is the beginning and the end -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, you are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49988]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People think families like that are the exception, but they aren't. Unfortunately, great families are torn apart every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42183]]></link><description><![CDATA[People think families like that are the exception, but they aren't. Unfortunately, great families are torn apart every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers ... We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13343]]></link><description><![CDATA[I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers ... We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who we strive to benefit Dear to our hearts soon grow to be;  I love my Rich, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who we strive to benefit Dear to our hearts soon grow to be;  I love my Rich, and I admit   That they are very good to me.    Succor the poor, my sisters,--I     While heaven shall still vouchsafe me health      Will strive to share and mollify       The trials of abounding wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45196]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ladies be but young and fair, They have the gift to know it; and in his brain, Which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55651]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ladies be but young and fair, They have the gift to know it; and in his brain, Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd With observation, the which he vents In mangled forms. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22484]]></link><description><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witch's mummy, maw and gulf  Of the ravined salt-sea shark,   Root ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witch's mummy, maw and gulf  Of the ravined salt-sea shark,   Root of hemlock digged i' th' dark,    Liver of blaspheming Jew,     Gall of goat, and slips of yew      Slivered in the moon's eclipse,       Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips,        Finger of birth-strangled babe         Ditch-delivered by a drab          Make the gruel thick and slab.           Add there to a tiger's chaudron            For th' ingredience of our cauldron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5750]]></link><description><![CDATA[With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come up here to get away from the sun, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come up here to get away from the sun,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can one review thousands and thousands of pages in just a matter of a few days? This court has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28228]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can one review thousands and thousands of pages in just a matter of a few days? This court has been deliberating with the evidence for the past year, but it has been keeping it away from the defense, which is not fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll start ramping up (today) with full practice. But we're hosting the Big Sky tournament, so we're going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42653]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll start ramping up (today) with full practice. But we're hosting the Big Sky tournament, so we're going to be short practice time. It might put us at a disadvantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44811]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where this could hurt the company is in its reputation of not being a great place to work. If left ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where this could hurt the company is in its reputation of not being a great place to work. If left unchecked, it could have an impact on Wal-Mart's image.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the parent of faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the parent of faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58509]]></link><description><![CDATA[His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13862]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20361]]></link><description><![CDATA[As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you are the most evil of all sinners, you will cross over allevil on the raft of knowledge. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you are the most evil of all sinners, you will cross over allevil on the raft of knowledge. Just as a flaming fire reduces wood toashes Argina, so the fire of knowledge reduces all actions to ashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In addition, the deceased was not the best at saying when he was going to travel - in other words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34901]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition, the deceased was not the best at saying when he was going to travel - in other words, there are no grounds to criticize the family in this matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wilt thou still be hammering treachery To tumble down thy husband and thyself  From top of honor to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12522]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wilt thou still be hammering treachery To tumble down thy husband and thyself  From top of honor to disgrace's feet?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers posed by the corporation, writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers posed by the corporation, writing of the need to "crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." Today, instead, the aristocracy of the corporation has grown to full maturity, wielding power over the state and its laws in the service of corporate aims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56334]]></link><description><![CDATA[In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry. [Sp., Una muger no tiene.  Valor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry. [Sp., Una muger no tiene.  Valor para el consejo, y la conviene Casarse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Father! no prophet's laws I seek,-- Thy laws in Nature's works appear;--  I own myself corrupt and weak,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Father! no prophet's laws I seek,-- Thy laws in Nature's works appear;--  I own myself corrupt and weak,   Yet will I pray, for thou wilt hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16644]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the surgery ward, the staff works in teams and no one could refuse his orders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36526]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the surgery ward, the staff works in teams and no one could refuse his orders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, since Thou hast taken from me all that I had of Thee, yet of Thy grace leave me the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, since Thou hast taken from me all that I had of Thee, yet of Thy grace leave me the gift which every dog has by nature: that of being true to Thee in my distress, when I am deprived of all consolation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18593]]></link><description><![CDATA[One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you sound like Vera Duckworth you will face prejudice in business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40057]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you sound like Vera Duckworth you will face prejudice in business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can be happy that we have a team like ours good enough to beat them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39057]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can be happy that we have a team like ours good enough to beat them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is too important to be left solely to the educators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61533]]></link><description><![CDATA[A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle; for this is a naturally pleasing to all, and everyone willingly enjoyeth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First we make our habits, then our habits make us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18512]]></link><description><![CDATA[First we make our habits, then our habits make us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43264]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19776</guid></item></channel></rss>