<?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[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20055]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4472]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44339]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[and everything after that is just cost savings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34191]]></link><description><![CDATA[and everything after that is just cost savings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of kings is unsearchable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48666]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of kings is unsearchable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change your language and you change your thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change your language and you change your thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18474]]></link><description><![CDATA[How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63741]]></link><description><![CDATA[People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun had sunk and the summer skies Were dotted with specks of light  That melted soon in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun had sunk and the summer skies Were dotted with specks of light  That melted soon in the deep moon-rise   That flowed over Groton Height.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to DisneyLand, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11726]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to DisneyLand, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said, "DisneyLand burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real DisneyLand, but it was getting pretty late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44630]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener, n]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men still seek Him today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men still seek Him today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It definitely is a signal of change - this engine is not just continuing on at the same pace as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31180]]></link><description><![CDATA[It definitely is a signal of change - this engine is not just continuing on at the same pace as it was in the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24740]]></link><description><![CDATA[It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46190]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19546]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to confess I am worried. We played well up to 65 minutes and then there was that extraordinary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to confess I am worried. We played well up to 65 minutes and then there was that extraordinary blow which threw us off-balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20984]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it--but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth has not such an urgent air. [Fr., La verite n'a point cet air impetueux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth has not such an urgent air. [Fr., La verite n'a point cet air impetueux.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organizations are pressured to grow revenues, reduce costs, and provide higher levels of customer service in a global marketplace where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organizations are pressured to grow revenues, reduce costs, and provide higher levels of customer service in a global marketplace where purchasers have more choices and less time than ever before. Selectively investing in high-value customers empowers organizations to boost revenues, reduce operational costs, and to increase customer retention/acquisition rates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as the treatment of prisoners is concerned ... it is clear that all 25 member states having signed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35206]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as the treatment of prisoners is concerned ... it is clear that all 25 member states having signed up to European Convention on Human Rights, and to the International Convention Against Torture, are due to respect and fully implement the obligations deriving from those treaties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is thinking on paper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is thinking on paper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/360]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aloha's position is that they're a private company. They're saying you need to pay it or you're not going anywhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aloha's position is that they're a private company. They're saying you need to pay it or you're not going anywhere with your school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47678]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned very early in life that: "Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned very early in life that: "Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend- without a song" So I keep singing a song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of courage is also full of faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10278]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of courage is also full of faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He seemed a cherub who had lost his way And wandered hither, so his stay  With us was short, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3645]]></link><description><![CDATA[He seemed a cherub who had lost his way And wandered hither, so his stay  With us was short, and 'twas most meet,   That he should be no delver in earth's clod,    Nor need to pause and cleanse his feet     To stand before his God:      O blest word--Evermore!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3645</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[Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43410]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60117]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people who were not free. I saw the gratitude of people toward the United States for all that we had done. I felt goosebumps as I got off a military train and heard the Army band strike up "Stars and Stripes Forever."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8969]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With me everything turns into mathematics. [Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26536]]></link><description><![CDATA[With me everything turns into mathematics. [Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60515]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1064]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our aim was always to reach a consensus to ensure a victory in the referendum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our aim was always to reach a consensus to ensure a victory in the referendum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27114]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now there's a real sense of confidence within the entire program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now there's a real sense of confidence within the entire program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40773</guid></item></channel></rss>