<?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[Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48790]]></link><description><![CDATA[And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30150]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64332]]></link><description><![CDATA[A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I don't think it's a good idea to move to a countywide system. I have real concerns about how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I don't think it's a good idea to move to a countywide system. I have real concerns about how frequently the revenues would be distributed and what sort of accountability there would be in getting proper distribution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65817]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1030]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13729]]></link><description><![CDATA[False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the divestiture program behind us, we are working to capitalize on growth opportunities. In doing so, we will leverage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35750]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the divestiture program behind us, we are working to capitalize on growth opportunities. In doing so, we will leverage our core materials integrity management products and technologies to solve the industry's most challenging contamination control issues and help improve our customers' yields.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children when they are little make parents fooles, when they are great they make them mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children when they are little make parents fooles, when they are great they make them mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35112]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22842]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage  Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die freeis an obligation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22336]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die freeis an obligation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49311]]></link><description><![CDATA[He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13816]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24030]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand,  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59267]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand,  And the brown rocks left bare on every hand,   As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9728]]></link><description><![CDATA["ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty sets off one newly come to honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He came back nicely. He doesn't throw as hard as Kurtis, but he throws the ball over the plate, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34550]]></link><description><![CDATA[He came back nicely. He doesn't throw as hard as Kurtis, but he throws the ball over the plate, he changes speeds, he works quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have times of uncertainty, it's a time to take less risk, not more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39469]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have times of uncertainty, it's a time to take less risk, not more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't able despite all efforts to reach solutions that would satisfy everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36211]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't able despite all efforts to reach solutions that would satisfy everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right--that will do for the marines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right--that will do for the marines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is trying to have reproduction of species in captivity so that if we do lose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34645]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is trying to have reproduction of species in captivity so that if we do lose them in the wild, there's an option.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a privilege as well as being exciting. The fans are extremely tribal, very parochial, very supportive, and it's one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32586]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a privilege as well as being exciting. The fans are extremely tribal, very parochial, very supportive, and it's one of the huge highlights so far of my coaching career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On their own merits modest men are dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27383]]></link><description><![CDATA[On their own merits modest men are dumb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think a lot will change right away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34732]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think a lot will change right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are wiser than we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26299]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are wiser than we know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44965]]></link><description><![CDATA[All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will you put in the stockingof the Baby Jesus?screenwriter of The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant, LorettaYoung, and David's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17276]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will you put in the stockingof the Baby Jesus?screenwriter of The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant, LorettaYoung, and David's Niven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next way home's the farthest way about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51051]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next way home's the farthest way about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each year, it seems, larger and more daunting mountains of text rise from the lush lowlands of visual reproduction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each year, it seems, larger and more daunting mountains of text rise from the lush lowlands of visual reproduction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try to be good citizens in the NBA. The league thought we weren't good citizens, so we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40681]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try to be good citizens in the NBA. The league thought we weren't good citizens, so we have to abide with what they ruled. The league thinks if one team does it, everybody is going to do it, and it would set a precedent by letting everybody go there and get benefits above and beyond what the collective bargaining agreement calls for. I don't agree or disagree. That's what the league is ruling, and I'm going to abide by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene;  No splendid poverty, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene;  No splendid poverty, no smiling care,   No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ant and the ChrysalisAn Ant nimbly running about in the sunshine in search of food cameacross a Chrysalis that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ant and the ChrysalisAn Ant nimbly running about in the sunshine in search of food cameacross a Chrysalis that was very near its time of change. TheChrysalis moved its tail, and thus attracted the attention of the Ant,who then saw for the first time that it was alive. Poor, pitiableanimal! cried the Ant disdainfully. What a sad fate is yours!While I can run hither and thither, at my pleasure, and, if I wish,ascend the tallest tree, you lie imprisoned here in your shell, withpower only to move a joint or two of your scaly tail. The Chrysalisheard all this, but did not try to make any reply. A few days after,when the Ant passed that way again, nothing but the shell remained.Wondering what had become of its contents, he felt himself suddenlyshaded and fanned by the gorgeous wings of a beautiful Butterfly.Behold in me, said the Butterfly, your much-pitied friend! Boastnow of your powers to run and climb as long as you can get me tolisten. So saying, the Butterfly rose in the air, and, borne alongand aloft on the summer breeze, was soon lost to the sight of theAnt forever.Appearances are deceptive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case have a nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and the boy never need to understand anything; for 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness. Old folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's projects that have been on the program and on hold for so many years, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39280]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's projects that have been on the program and on hold for so many years,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations ... can never effect a reform. -Susan B. Anthony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations ... can never effect a reform. -Susan B. Anthony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled. [Lat., Bis gratum est, quod dato opus est, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23764]]></link><description><![CDATA[If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled. [Lat., Bis gratum est, quod dato opus est, ultro si offeras.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23764</guid></item></channel></rss>