<?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[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[And I will pretendthat I don't know of your sinsuntil you are ready to confessbut all the timeI'll know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34908]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I will pretendthat I don't know of your sinsuntil you are ready to confessbut all the timeI'll know]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16982]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a tough kid. He wrestles a whole match. He doesn't stop wrestling. If you take a second off with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a tough kid. He wrestles a whole match. He doesn't stop wrestling. If you take a second off with that kid -- obviously that's the result your going to get. But we're going to prepare for him because we're definitely going to see him again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence enough, but little wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence enough, but little wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56081]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2509]]></link><description><![CDATA[A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45226]]></link><description><![CDATA[For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8980]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a great team effort. We really played smart and guys stepped up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41044]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a great team effort. We really played smart and guys stepped up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. -Elizabeth 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. -Elizabeth 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62781]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since sorrow never comes too late And happiness too swiftly flies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since sorrow never comes too late And happiness too swiftly flies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I call him the unpolished diamond. We polished him off today and he was really shining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I call him the unpolished diamond. We polished him off today and he was really shining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54612]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not the sum of our possessions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47781]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not the sum of our possessions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just takes you back. It's just old-fashioned fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35388]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just takes you back. It's just old-fashioned fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's really courageous, really has a lot of heart to get out there and do what she did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39615]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's really courageous, really has a lot of heart to get out there and do what she did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand year a poor man watched Before the gate of Paradise:  But while one little nap he snatched, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45060]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand year a poor man watched Before the gate of Paradise:  But while one little nap he snatched,   It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who allows oppression shares the crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57027]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who allows oppression shares the crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48418]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babe was a wonderful person. He was just a big kid who loved the limelight. If 500 children were waiting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babe was a wonderful person. He was just a big kid who loved the limelight. If 500 children were waiting for his autograph, he'd stand there and sign for each one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21308]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet,  Which once inflam'd my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet,  Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55550]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26157]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew,  It was a modest flower. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60705]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew,  It was a modest flower.   A shepherdess pass'd by that way--    Light footed, pretty and so gay;     That way she came,      Softly warbling forth her lay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4491]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very hard! Oh, Dick, my boy, It's very hard one can't enjoy  A little private spouting;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/425]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very hard! Oh, Dick, my boy, It's very hard one can't enjoy  A little private spouting;   But sure as Lear or Hamlet lives,    Up comes our master, Bounce! and gives     The tragic Muse a routing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5094]]></link><description><![CDATA[The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From hyperborean skies Embodied dark, what clouds of vandals rise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56518]]></link><description><![CDATA[From hyperborean skies Embodied dark, what clouds of vandals rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45457]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52287</guid></item></channel></rss>