<?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[There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13429]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dating should be less about matching outward circumstances than meeting your inner necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dating should be less about matching outward circumstances than meeting your inner necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not failure, but low aim, is crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not failure, but low aim, is crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever did this must have known what they were doing, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever did this must have known what they were doing,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61348]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66358]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give no bounties:  make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give no bounties:  make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a general sense I think at least in the British Foreign Office and the British military that the U.S. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32533]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a general sense I think at least in the British Foreign Office and the British military that the U.S. tactics have been too heavy-handed and may be responsible for some of what we're seeing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One fourth of the money stays here in Zanesville, going to Christ Table and the Salvation Army. The other three-fourth's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30142]]></link><description><![CDATA[One fourth of the money stays here in Zanesville, going to Christ Table and the Salvation Army. The other three-fourth's goes wherever it is needed in this country and in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That dude is huge! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35176]]></link><description><![CDATA[That dude is huge!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No love is foule, nor prison fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49652]]></link><description><![CDATA[No love is foule, nor prison fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who promises runs in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11503]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who promises runs in debt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaste as the icicle That 's curdied by the frost from purest snow And hangs on Dian's temple. -Coriolanus. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaste as the icicle That 's curdied by the frost from purest snow And hangs on Dian's temple. -Coriolanus. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The step taken (by the EU) was not sufficient to start negotiation in other sectors, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31249]]></link><description><![CDATA[The step taken (by the EU) was not sufficient to start negotiation in other sectors,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is very little disease here. We have not been seeing the diseases that many people around the country feared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32275]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is very little disease here. We have not been seeing the diseases that many people around the country feared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53880]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man's idea of a good sermon is one that goes over his head - and hits one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man's idea of a good sermon is one that goes over his head - and hits one of his neighbors]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of Earth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of Earth, overlaying our hard hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20697]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37189]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44284]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You start out massively over-eating because portions are larger, and things get activated in the brain and liver that fuel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41067]]></link><description><![CDATA[You start out massively over-eating because portions are larger, and things get activated in the brain and liver that fuel the upward movement in body weight,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war there is no substitute for victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47610]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war there is no substitute for victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before. - O America, 1977.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a color she abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2762]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a color she abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests; and he will smile upon her, which will now be so unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him into a notable contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nearer the church, the further from God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nearer the church, the further from God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leap year Is never a good sheep year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56162]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leap year Is never a good sheep year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visions for those too tired to sleep, These seeds cast a film over eyes which weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visions for those too tired to sleep, These seeds cast a film over eyes which weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27478]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toughness played a much bigger role on those teams. We had eight legitimate fighters. I helped with that toughness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Toughness played a much bigger role on those teams. We had eight legitimate fighters. I helped with that toughness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47387]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commercially available software should fit most needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commercially available software should fit most needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15461]]></link><description><![CDATA[That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view. [Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo!  Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24373]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25414]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry, because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His heroism, patriotism and service to the country are something we all need to see as a role model. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29145]]></link><description><![CDATA[His heroism, patriotism and service to the country are something we all need to see as a role model.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29145</guid></item></channel></rss>