<?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[Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is by far their greatest joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got a tough schedule from now on. We have to keep focused and working hard for our ultimate prize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39251]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got a tough schedule from now on. We have to keep focused and working hard for our ultimate prize.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I concede! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22243]]></link><description><![CDATA[I concede!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled;  The flame that lit the battle's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled;  The flame that lit the battle's wreck,   Shone round him o'er the dead.    . . . .     The flames roll'd on--he would not go      Without his Father's word;       That father, faint in death below,        His voice no longer heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer. [Lat., Id demum est homini turpe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12520]]></link><description><![CDATA[That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer. [Lat., Id demum est homini turpe, quod meruit pati.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5380]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61466]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24251]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I?m just happy that our weather is coming in [today] and not Friday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33527]]></link><description><![CDATA[I?m just happy that our weather is coming in [today] and not Friday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48218]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If inflation continues, the two-car garage will be replaced by the two-family garage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20837]]></link><description><![CDATA[If inflation continues, the two-car garage will be replaced by the two-family garage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They told me I could fill right in at the four spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32712]]></link><description><![CDATA[They told me I could fill right in at the four spot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen it on every line, on almost every train. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen it on every line, on almost every train.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never represented (or heard of) a company where a 'pattern of violations' had been used. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28415]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never represented (or heard of) a company where a 'pattern of violations' had been used.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45687]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple—yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because the governor hasn't seen a funding ordinance, there's no way for her to weigh in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because the governor hasn't seen a funding ordinance, there's no way for her to weigh in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4704]]></link><description><![CDATA[People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17707]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens. [Lat., Dignum laude virum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens. [Lat., Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori;  Coelo Musa beat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only index by which to judge a government or a way of life is by the quality of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only index by which to judge a government or a way of life is by the quality of the people it acts upon. No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion- it is an evil government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken,  The light he leaves behind him lies  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20865]]></link><description><![CDATA[So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken,  The light he leaves behind him lies   Upon the paths of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have a whole range of other strengths out there that we should be cultivating and celebrating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have a whole range of other strengths out there that we should be cultivating and celebrating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not trying to be very highbrow about it. I think it's kind of silly that there are elements in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31824]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not trying to be very highbrow about it. I think it's kind of silly that there are elements in society that want to position sex as something that's taboo or dirty. What our publication does is put out the message that it's all good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of things we're seeing right now are very familiar pieces, but they're done in a new fabric or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of things we're seeing right now are very familiar pieces, but they're done in a new fabric or color. It's about juxtaposition - denim with velvet. That makes it easy to get a lot of use out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilage of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilage of the underprivilaged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43414]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing,  Read you not the wrong you're doing   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing,  Read you not the wrong you're doing   In my cheek's pale hue?    All my life with sorrow strewing;     Wed or cease to woo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46942]]></link><description><![CDATA[You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the conviction persists - though history has shown it to be a hallucination - that all the questions that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52105]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the conviction persists - though history has shown it to be a hallucination - that all the questions that the human mind has asked are questions that can be answered in terms of the alternatives that the questions themselves present. But in fact intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume - an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them. Old questions are solved by disappearing, evaporating, while new questions corresponding to the changed attitude of endeavor and preference take their place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The technology is in a very early stage in general, so it may in the future provide breakthroughs but in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The technology is in a very early stage in general, so it may in the future provide breakthroughs but in the short-term it is certainly going to take time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates. [Lat., Fingit equum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58750]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates. [Lat., Fingit equum tenera docilem cervice magister  Ire viam qua monstret eques.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the reason we used asphalt instead of concrete for the road surface. It's easier and less costly to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38061]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the reason we used asphalt instead of concrete for the road surface. It's easier and less costly to repair asphalt rather than concrete roads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species. You can drop humans anywhere and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species. You can drop humans anywhere and they'll thrive--only the rat does as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63337</guid></item></channel></rss>