<?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[To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2085]]></link><description><![CDATA[To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest productive force is human selfishness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest productive force is human selfishness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although no deal is yet final, all interested parties are expected to congregate in Detroit next Wednesday to iron out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although no deal is yet final, all interested parties are expected to congregate in Detroit next Wednesday to iron out the final details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand, and itis fine," is the greatest understanding you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand, and itis fine," is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath  Was sweeter, in the blast of death,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath  Was sweeter, in the blast of death,   Than all the lavish fragrance of the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17084]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart presence is about having more of your real self show up in each moment. It's about being mentally, emotionally, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heart presence is about having more of your real self show up in each moment. It's about being mentally, emotionally, and physically present in the heart. We often put so much energy and focus on how we "present" ourselves - the way we appear, what we wear,what we say, what car we drive. If we put a fraction of that energy into how we present ourselves to ourselves on the mental and emotional levels, we can greatly reduce anxiety and increase our vitality. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prices all of us pay for insurance in 2002 may be a little higher. Prices were already firming up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prices all of us pay for insurance in 2002 may be a little higher. Prices were already firming up because insurers' investment returns had been decreasing, and auto and property loss had increased. But this is going to accelerate that process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a queen, and you took away my crown, a wife, and you killed my huband, a mother, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41605]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a queen, and you took away my crown, a wife, and you killed my huband, a mother, and you took my children away from me. All I have left is my blood. Take it. but do not make me suffer long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52525]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neil: The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neil: The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream,  The maid's romantic wish, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream,  The maid's romantic wish, the chemist's flame,   And poet's vision of eternal fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's any drawback, it would be in terms of how higher prices would affect the margins in their refining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37548]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's any drawback, it would be in terms of how higher prices would affect the margins in their refining operations -- but that's not an issue now because of capacity constraints we have here in the United States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23900]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive away ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive away]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what youshouldn't-it just keeps you from enjoying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21712]]></link><description><![CDATA[The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what youshouldn't-it just keeps you from enjoying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A win is always the answer to get the bad taste out of your mouth. Beating Iowa is a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A win is always the answer to get the bad taste out of your mouth. Beating Iowa is a great feeling. In our hearts, we all know we can beat any team in the country. We just need to believe it and play like we can every game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can sympathize with everything, except suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Constitution should be short and obscure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9906]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Constitution should be short and obscure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9906</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[We're simply following through on that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37115]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're simply following through on that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our own in-house experiments, she couldn't get out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37733]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our own in-house experiments, she couldn't get out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6750]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for their friends abandoned soul and all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,  Yet gives not o'er though desperate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46161]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,  Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59306]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope he wins - I'm rooting for him now. I think he's ready to win a state championship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36477]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope he wins - I'm rooting for him now. I think he's ready to win a state championship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key issues in our area are education, education and education, ... I would hope and expect any congressional candidate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key issues in our area are education, education and education, ... I would hope and expect any congressional candidate would come to focus on those issues ? focus on the things your constituents are concerned about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is the first rough draft of history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is the first rough draft of history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou desirest to be safe, turn at once in thy emptiness to God. If thou hast been inconsistent, how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7254]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou desirest to be safe, turn at once in thy emptiness to God. If thou hast been inconsistent, how canst thou better become consistent again than in God only? How canst thou better escape death than by the true, real Life -- which is God Himself?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to drag foreign ministers to Brussels, but if we he have to, we will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39012]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to drag foreign ministers to Brussels, but if we he have to, we will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing real can be threatened.Nothing unreal exists.(Helen Schucman over 7 years wrote the Course In Miracles). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing real can be threatened.Nothing unreal exists.(Helen Schucman over 7 years wrote the Course In Miracles).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health and mony goe farre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health and mony goe farre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35856]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35856</guid></item></channel></rss>