<?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[Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someday is not a day of the week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someday is not a day of the week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one day gives us, another takes away from us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50057]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one day gives us, another takes away from us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's normal to move the pelvis. It's not meant to be lascivious. It's meant to be a form of everyday ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28557]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's normal to move the pelvis. It's not meant to be lascivious. It's meant to be a form of everyday expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One good act of vengeance deserves another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44220]]></link><description><![CDATA[One good act of vengeance deserves another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5695]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44329]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12059]]></link><description><![CDATA[My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22077]]></link><description><![CDATA[By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18749]]></link><description><![CDATA[If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a veteran guy, get his bat in the lineup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34865]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a veteran guy, get his bat in the lineup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3127]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3082]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48112]]></link><description><![CDATA[When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58580]]></link><description><![CDATA[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a sheltering tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a sheltering tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2966]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63251]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy to maintain, but ultimately toxic. Other tool is passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60695]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentiallyconstructed by the time childhood is over, but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21906]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentiallyconstructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essencedeveloping, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age willstimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only is life too short, it has acne and looks geeky in gym clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only is life too short, it has acne and looks geeky in gym clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15809]]></link><description><![CDATA[The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population. On the contrary, the increasingly complex processes tend to lead to increasingly simple and easily understood products. The genius of mass production is precisely in its making more products more accessible, both economically and intellectually to more people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44288]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect. [Fr., Entre le bon sens et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect. [Fr., Entre le bon sens et le bon gout il y a la difference de la cause a son effet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gently on tiptoe Sunday creeps, Cheerfully from the stars he peeps,  Mortals are all asleep below,   None ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gently on tiptoe Sunday creeps, Cheerfully from the stars he peeps,  Mortals are all asleep below,   None in the village hears him go;    E'en chanticleer keeps very still,     For Sunday whispered, 'twas his will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing dries sooner then a teare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing dries sooner then a teare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61453]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in good shape when I came here, but it (boxing) whooped me. It is way more physically demanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29154]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in good shape when I came here, but it (boxing) whooped me. It is way more physically demanding than any other sport.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14767]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is never permanent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is never permanent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965  Who is it that has helped you most? Has it not been those who believed in you? Perhaps there may be few such left. The light of expectation may have died out of the most friendly and hopeful eyes; and you yourself may have lost heart. Ah! but there is still One whose faith in you has never wavered. And how wonderful it is that that one should be Jesus Christ!... It was a wonderful dream God dreamed, Christ says, when He created you; it was a stately being that was in His mind when you were fashioned; and I can make you all He meant that you should be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A secret at home is like rocks under tide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54986]]></link><description><![CDATA[A secret at home is like rocks under tide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64387</guid></item></channel></rss>