<?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[If anything prepares you to be president, it's being a Red Sox fan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4786]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anything prepares you to be president, it's being a Red Sox fan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth. Carl Jung -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth. Carl Jung -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very happy for him. . . . He was heartbroken here once, ... But that's all over now. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29673]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very happy for him. . . . He was heartbroken here once, ... But that's all over now. I told him he had to face these things in life . . . to make a man of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O what is it proud slime will not believe Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised  Thus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47949]]></link><description><![CDATA[O what is it proud slime will not believe Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised  Thus with the gods?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15727]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54809]]></link><description><![CDATA[O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The White House Web site is and always has been consistent with the OMB guidance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The White House Web site is and always has been consistent with the OMB guidance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut  The portals of our earthly destinies; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut  The portals of our earthly destinies;   We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors    Close after us, forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9396]]></link><description><![CDATA[All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's;  God is, they are,   Man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's;  God is, they are,   Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We brought a very competitive team and thought we could win. People didn't take us seriously in the seeding meeting. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39243]]></link><description><![CDATA[We brought a very competitive team and thought we could win. People didn't take us seriously in the seeding meeting. I think our effort will gain respect for our program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66732]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side,  And of all who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12862]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side,  And of all who assembled within those walls,   That I was the hope and the pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You learn something every day if you pay attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24508]]></link><description><![CDATA[You learn something every day if you pay attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn, With proverbs thus each other entertain;  "In love there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51895]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn, With proverbs thus each other entertain;  "In love there is no lack," thus I begin;   "Fair words make fools," replieth he again;    "Who spares to speak doth spare to speed," quoth I;     "As well," saith he, "too forward as too slow";      "Fortune assists the boldest," I reply;       "A hasty man," quote he, "ne'er wanted woe";        "Labour is light where love," quote I, "doth pay";         "Light burden's heavy, if far borne";          Quoth I, "The main lost, cast the by away";           "Y'have spun a fair thread," he replies in scorn.            And having thus awhile each other thwarted             Fools as we met, so fools again we parted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our aspirations are our possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our aspirations are our possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50996]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn right, it's fun. There's good company. It's creative. It's adventurous. Combines high adventure and art with intellection. It's more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn right, it's fun. There's good company. It's creative. It's adventurous. Combines high adventure and art with intellection. It's more fun than polo. It's like going undefeated in football. [When asked if making movies is fun].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. [Lat., Quicquid servatur, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10460]]></link><description><![CDATA[We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. [Lat., Quicquid servatur, cupimus magis: ipsaque furem  Cura vocat. Pauci, quod sinit alter, amant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood,  Some mute inglorious Milton here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood,  Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,   Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you, what star do you live on? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32120]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you, what star do you live on?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being selected to guide this historic property through its next phase of development is an honor and an exciting opportunity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being selected to guide this historic property through its next phase of development is an honor and an exciting opportunity. Our goal is to develop a project that honors the historical significance and small-town charm of Young's Farm and the surrounding area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boast during the day; be humble at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boast during the day; be humble at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contract With Women of the USA ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contract With Women of the USA]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Englishman's home is his castle ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47777]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Englishman's home is his castle]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some preparations are now in progress to assure the smooth organization of the meeting, and 'Management of Migratory Flows' has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some preparations are now in progress to assure the smooth organization of the meeting, and 'Management of Migratory Flows' has been selected theme of the meeting,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody has any doubt that ETA wanted to attack before the general elections, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody has any doubt that ETA wanted to attack before the general elections,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27545]]></link><description><![CDATA[That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By that sin fell the angels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51360]]></link><description><![CDATA[By that sin fell the angels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and the SnakeOne winter a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and the SnakeOne winter a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on it, and taking it up, placed it in his bosom. The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound. Oh, cried the Farmer with his last breath, I am rightly served for pitying a scoundrel. The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first in glory, as the first in place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17546]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first in glory, as the first in place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs. [It., Tu proverai si come sa di sale  Lo pane altrui, e com e duro calle   Lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly invigorates it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There would bee no great ones if there were no little ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There would bee no great ones if there were no little ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time you seem to gain momentum, they snatch it right back with a big shift right away or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time you seem to gain momentum, they snatch it right back with a big shift right away or a couple of shifts later. They turn things around so quickly, it's frustrating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28810</guid></item></channel></rss>