<?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[Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be a massive clash in all senses of the word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32589]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be a massive clash in all senses of the word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30!.30 (inside school hours) during which they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30!.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29765]]></link><description><![CDATA[They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5934]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1096]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did a nice job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did a nice job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good cheape is deare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good cheape is deare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put that (amendment) in there and send it back to them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put that (amendment) in there and send it back to them,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is more exciting than any game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is more exciting than any game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the first period when we had that lead, we were still missing easy shots. It should've been about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the first period when we had that lead, we were still missing easy shots. It should've been about a 14-15-point lead, really.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19208]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you desire something from the bottom of your heart, then the entire universe will work for you to give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63038]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you desire something from the bottom of your heart, then the entire universe will work for you to give what you want. The more you believe in the process, the more you will attract towards you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36441]]></link><description><![CDATA[An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All literature is gossip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25277]]></link><description><![CDATA[All literature is gossip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We train by a parkway, which runs beside a river. If we had a lonely end, he either would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57641]]></link><description><![CDATA[We train by a parkway, which runs beside a river. If we had a lonely end, he either would be hit by a car or drown. (on why he doesn't use a lonely end)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64946]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of the others. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9517]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35195]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26817]]></link><description><![CDATA[When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15636]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard;  To carry nature lengths unknown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard;  To carry nature lengths unknown before,   To give a Milton birth, asked ages more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolution is not a dinner party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolution is not a dinner party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13831]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,  Whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,  Whose weakness married to thy stronger state   Makes with me thy strength to communicate.    If aught possess thee from me, it is dross,     Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss;      Who all for want of pruning, with intrusion       Infect thy sap and live on thy confusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4920]]></link><description><![CDATA[From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that an essential condition for crises is to be found in the existence of a highly developed system ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47416]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that an essential condition for crises is to be found in the existence of a highly developed system of communications and the spreading of a homogenous mentality over vast areas.But when the hour and the right material are at hand, the contagion spreads with the speed of electricity over hundreds of miles, and affects the most diverse populations, which hardly know each other. The message flies through the air and they all suddenly agree on that one issue, if only a sulky admission that "there's got to be a change.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My work is a game, a very serious game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62102]]></link><description><![CDATA[My work is a game, a very serious game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45282]]></link><description><![CDATA[What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have to die some day, if we live long enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11251]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33282]]></link><description><![CDATA[No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the largest ever TV audience; the busiest Web site in the world; the largest ever online petition -- The Live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40849]]></link><description><![CDATA[the largest ever TV audience; the busiest Web site in the world; the largest ever online petition -- The Live 8 list; the largest ever text petition; the largest ever response to a TV show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would the cook were o' my mind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would the cook were o' my mind!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63541]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just didn't believe I was like everybody else. I thought I was unique. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just didn't believe I was like everybody else. I thought I was unique.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46197</guid></item></channel></rss>