<?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[One sound blow will serve to undo us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49698]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sound blow will serve to undo us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything went according to plan, as we were counting on Sastre, Peron and Piil to do really well today and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything went according to plan, as we were counting on Sastre, Peron and Piil to do really well today and at the last intermediate time it even looked as if Sastre might take the second place, but unfortunately he stalled a bit towards the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real estate, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart;  We may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13225]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart;  We may live without friends; we may live without books;   But civilized man cannot live without cooks.    He may live without books,--what is knowledge but grieving?     He may live without hope,--what is hope but deceiving?      He may live without love,--what is passion but pining?       But where is the man that can live without dining?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50080]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You’re through. Finished. Burned out. Used up. You’ve been replaced. . . forgotten. That’s a lie! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4997]]></link><description><![CDATA[You’re through. Finished. Burned out. Used up. You’ve been replaced. . . forgotten. That’s a lie!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people revolt in a totalitarian society, they rise not against the wickedness of the regime but its weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47604]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people revolt in a totalitarian society, they rise not against the wickedness of the regime but its weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jordan also believes all final status issues, including borders, refugees, Jerusalem and settlements, should be a matter for the parties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jordan also believes all final status issues, including borders, refugees, Jerusalem and settlements, should be a matter for the parties to decide. I am encouraged by what I've heard from you today, sir, that these issues are not to be prejudiced and should be mutually agreed by the parties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now they come back with 39 counts. So this appears to be punitive. This appears to be retaliatory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now they come back with 39 counts. So this appears to be punitive. This appears to be retaliatory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give a name to every fixed star Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25106]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. -Anita Roddick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is singularly unequipped to beat these people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37557]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is singularly unequipped to beat these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,--  That for ways that are dark   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,--  That for ways that are dark   And for tricks that are vain,    The heathen Chinee is peculiar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17887]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44490]]></link><description><![CDATA[A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17420]]></link><description><![CDATA[MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have played six games this season but this is the first time we have played well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40196]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have played six games this season but this is the first time we have played well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18622]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me.  . . . .   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48263]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me.  . . . .   Locks, bars, and solitude together met,    Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since obtaining a greater understanding of quantum physics, I am beginning to draw conclusions about why things happen the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since obtaining a greater understanding of quantum physics, I am beginning to draw conclusions about why things happen the way they do. Specifically, I have learned that everything outside of me is a mirror of what is inside of me. I have also learned how to "infect the quantum field" or manifest reality by concentrating on particular ideas that I want to call into existance. My career success is due in large part to this new understanding of quantum physics, combined with the love and trust I share with Brian [Lewis].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was one of those deals where they had to spend it on somebody by Oct. 1 or give it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32074]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was one of those deals where they had to spend it on somebody by Oct. 1 or give it back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56181]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Videlicit, That each man swore to do his best  To damn and perjure all the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Videlicit, That each man swore to do his best  To damn and perjure all the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty much a little village down there where everyone knows everyone, so if they can walk into a loo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40006]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty much a little village down there where everyone knows everyone, so if they can walk into a loo and buy a condom, it's a lot easier than going to the local shop and buying them, when everyone knows what's going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep,  And dry the moistened curls that overspread   His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care;  The opening bud to Heaven conveyed,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care;  The opening bud to Heaven conveyed,   And bade it blossom there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27590]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep;  Her march is o'er the mountain wave,   Her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep;  Her march is o'er the mountain wave,   Her home is on the deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5646]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5646</guid></item></channel></rss>