<?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[But, Clifford, tell me, didst thou never hear, That things ill got had ever bad success? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51322]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, Clifford, tell me, didst thou never hear, That things ill got had ever bad success?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see individuals scurrying to get into more fuel-efficient cars. Then they find out they owe more on their 2004 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see individuals scurrying to get into more fuel-efficient cars. Then they find out they owe more on their 2004 vehicle than what they could get as a trade-in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It won't free up enormous amounts of capacity (on freeways) in the near term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It won't free up enormous amounts of capacity (on freeways) in the near term.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To kill a relative of whom you are tired is one thing. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20911]]></link><description><![CDATA[To kill a relative of whom you are tired is one thing. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is a genuine pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1132]]></link><description><![CDATA[For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thread breakes, where it is weakest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49921]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thread breakes, where it is weakest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A confession has to be part of your new life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9650]]></link><description><![CDATA[A confession has to be part of your new life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64286]]></link><description><![CDATA[When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pretty mocking of the life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54714]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pretty mocking of the life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22194]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self - praise is no recommendation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self - praise is no recommendation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. A man is too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1433]]></link><description><![CDATA[They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left to him. Better bend than break. Never swap horses while crossing a stream.Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway. There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Fail to plan, plan to fail. -Carl W. Buechner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16725]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ... Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. Character is supreme in life, and hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing -- so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14455]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, their excise tax went up, their sales tax went up, and their prices went up and everything else, because we failed to invest in some of these other things we ought to be doing. ... We are squeezing the middle class, we are losing the middle class, and the gap between the haves and the have-nots is growing wider and wider, not closing as it used to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18291]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63044]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Argentina could be the next market to be attacked and since the Argentine market is so close to Brazil, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Argentina could be the next market to be attacked and since the Argentine market is so close to Brazil, that could bring trouble for us. Brazil still needs foreign financing this year...so we need the flow of foreign funds to continue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition is a guide and not a jailer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition is a guide and not a jailer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any additional rate increases would need to be precipitated by higher inflation or above-trend growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any additional rate increases would need to be precipitated by higher inflation or above-trend growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The developer has met all the requests and conditions that we've asked. All the issues that you brought up at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The developer has met all the requests and conditions that we've asked. All the issues that you brought up at our meeting, he's basically addressed those, and in my opinion gone above and beyond as far as putting out extra work and expending money out of his pocket to try to help accommodate people who are in a low-lying area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just extremely happy to win the championship with the second quickest car, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34880]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just extremely happy to win the championship with the second quickest car,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs the ear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously arranged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time they realized that they are not doing something good for their brothers [in the South], it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29705]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time they realized that they are not doing something good for their brothers [in the South], it is too late, they have a job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43851]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The Badgers) were throwing up a lot of contested shots, and we were getting rebounds and pushing it down. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36367]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The Badgers) were throwing up a lot of contested shots, and we were getting rebounds and pushing it down. We played our game. We put them in a situation where they were on their heels and had to run with us. We were coming down, getting good looks, open opportunities, and we were knocking them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15978]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29995]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a kid sailing Optimists down in Cornwall and there was a British America's Cup challenge that was training in Falmouth,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if college actually changes your viewpoint; it just gives you more depth. There is actually a theory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if college actually changes your viewpoint; it just gives you more depth. There is actually a theory called the reinforcement thesis, which says that people acquire a mental lens or filter at a very young age. As you get older you tend to accept more readily the information that reinforces that view and reject information that contradicts it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55349]]></link><description><![CDATA[O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17986]]></link><description><![CDATA[So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are "our children"; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Africa is destined to anarchy. It is turning into 36 Haitis, with 36 Duvaliers, full of Cadillacs, beggars and snarling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Africa is destined to anarchy. It is turning into 36 Haitis, with 36 Duvaliers, full of Cadillacs, beggars and snarling dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56776]]></link><description><![CDATA[A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whistle, and she'll come to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whistle, and she'll come to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play is the beginning of knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play is the beginning of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bunch of youngsters entered a Muslim house (in Western Australia) and attacked a lady in the house and later ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29082]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bunch of youngsters entered a Muslim house (in Western Australia) and attacked a lady in the house and later admitted to police that they did that because they are Muslims,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way is an ill neighbour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way is an ill neighbour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49930</guid></item></channel></rss>