<?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[Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. - Essays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos is a friend of mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos is a friend of mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burroughs was a very political writer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burroughs was a very political writer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22631]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18339]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno  Si leggesse in fronte scritto,   Quanti mai, che invidia fanno,    Ci farebbero pieta!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of our defencemen here in the first couple of games have been just outstanding, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of our defencemen here in the first couple of games have been just outstanding,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was pleased with representation on the committee. There were a variety of different opinions and we've successfully incorporated every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was pleased with representation on the committee. There were a variety of different opinions and we've successfully incorporated every member of the third-year class.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is like a man rowing a boat upstream. He has no choice; he must go ahead or he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is like a man rowing a boat upstream. He has no choice; he must go ahead or he will go back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24409]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, Behold! The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50089]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not  Be forced to grind the bones out of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not  Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms   For bread, but have some space to think and feel    Like moral and immortal creatures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The presidential vote in Peru is a matter of deep concern to us all, ... Left unexamined, it will certainly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40893]]></link><description><![CDATA[The presidential vote in Peru is a matter of deep concern to us all, ... Left unexamined, it will certainly diminish the credibility of this organization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."  "The question is," said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62027]]></link><description><![CDATA["The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."  "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet be sad, good brothers, For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.  Sorrow so royally in you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet be sad, good brothers, For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.  Sorrow so royally in you appears   That I will deeply put the fashion on    And wear it in my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859  [Christ] is the breathing forth of the heart, life and spirit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859  [Christ] is the breathing forth of the heart, life and spirit of God into all the dead race of Adam. He is the seeker, the finder, the restorer of all that, from Cain to the end of time, was lost and dead to the life of God. He is the love that prays for all its murderers; the love that willingly suffers and dies among thieves, that thieves may have a life with him in Paradise; the love that visits publicans, harlots and sinners, and wants and seeks to forgive where most is to be forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She just got the architects drawings and she's excited to get going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28398]]></link><description><![CDATA[She just got the architects drawings and she's excited to get going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O wild and wondrous midnight, There is a might in thee  To make the charmed body   Almost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27454]]></link><description><![CDATA[O wild and wondrous midnight, There is a might in thee  To make the charmed body   Almost like spirit be,    And give it some faint glimpses     Of immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60678]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't exaggerate - I just remember big ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17805]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't exaggerate - I just remember big]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got unsung heroes in that school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40562]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got unsung heroes in that school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lost my son, but at the same time I'm still a staunch supporter of the troops. [They] need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lost my son, but at the same time I'm still a staunch supporter of the troops. [They] need to know that back home we are for them and we are behind them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60187]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people in America believe that if you are pro-choice that means pro-abortion. It doesn't. I don't want abortion. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people in America believe that if you are pro-choice that means pro-abortion. It doesn't. I don't want abortion. Abortion should be the rarest thing in the world. I am actually personally opposed to abortion. But I don't believe that I have a right to take what is an article of faith to me and legislate it to other people. That's not how it works in America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My goal freshman year was to be able to travel with the team. I achieved that, and breaking my hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42501]]></link><description><![CDATA[My goal freshman year was to be able to travel with the team. I achieved that, and breaking my hand was sort of a blessing in disguise, because it allowed me to play four full years of baseball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your emotions affect every cell in your body. Mind and body, mental and physical, are intertwined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your emotions affect every cell in your body. Mind and body, mental and physical, are intertwined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44107]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're Fired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23141]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're Fired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of theeducability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21131]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of theeducability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressedourselves to this problem before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real estate closer. Oh, what's that? I'm a real estate opener. What is a real estate closer? You mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41015]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real estate closer. Oh, what's that? I'm a real estate opener. What is a real estate closer? You mean at the end where you've got to sign all those papers?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe these are strong results from BT and that they should be well received by the market... there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31605]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe these are strong results from BT and that they should be well received by the market... there is more to BT than revenues. We believe these results from BT confirm that view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50252]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud of paying taxes. The only thing is--I could be just as proud for half the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud of paying taxes. The only thing is--I could be just as proud for half the money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It left us with a flawed system where they try to get there first and they challenge patents even if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35456]]></link><description><![CDATA[It left us with a flawed system where they try to get there first and they challenge patents even if they feel they're not going to win. The system is broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to perseverance lies by doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12784]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to perseverance lies by doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12784</guid></item></channel></rss>