<?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[Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication is the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, "it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If producers are thinking about planting corn rootworm-resistant corn, they will first want to make sure their buyer is willing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32134]]></link><description><![CDATA[If producers are thinking about planting corn rootworm-resistant corn, they will first want to make sure their buyer is willing to buy that corn. You wouldn't want to plant corn rootworm corn without checking with them because it doesn't so much matter what the European Union wants, what really matters is what your buyer wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage;  And if I chance to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45234]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage;  And if I chance to fall below   Demosthenes or Cicero,    Don't view me with a critic's eye,     But pass my imperfections by.      Large streams from little fountains flow,       Tall oaks from little acorns grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, I came, saw, and overcame. -King Henry IV. Part II. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, I came, saw, and overcame. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Percentage-wise, it's not that much. We've always been lucky to keep it under 3 percent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Percentage-wise, it's not that much. We've always been lucky to keep it under 3 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22990]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1030]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53987]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every monarch is subject to a mightier one. [Lat., Omnes sub regno graviore regnum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every monarch is subject to a mightier one. [Lat., Omnes sub regno graviore regnum est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13769]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13769</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[I am almost frightened out of my seven senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55128]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19369]]></link><description><![CDATA[History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Place saw My best days, My Happiest, My Wife having blessed me with Your Brother Woodhouse... I Calculated, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38843]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Place saw My best days, My Happiest, My Wife having blessed me with Your Brother Woodhouse... I Calculated, to Live and died in Comfort, Our Business Was good of course We agreed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62390]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our special teams have been [bad] to say the least. Our penalty kill has not been going very well [nine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our special teams have been [bad] to say the least. Our penalty kill has not been going very well [nine power-play goals allowed in four losses] and we have not been getting that big power-play goal when we need it. When we were on that [10-1-1] streak the power play was going. We need to get back to that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13604]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These firms are still in foot-in-the-door mode. They aren't getting entire companies to outsource: They're getting divisions and bits and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34611]]></link><description><![CDATA[These firms are still in foot-in-the-door mode. They aren't getting entire companies to outsource: They're getting divisions and bits and pieces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2054]]></link><description><![CDATA[As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65482]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24768]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13073]]></link><description><![CDATA[My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probably, they anticipate that down the line there will be a point that confrontation will be inevitable. Therefore, they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probably, they anticipate that down the line there will be a point that confrontation will be inevitable. Therefore, they are just indicating that in case they come under any military pressure or any threat then they can properly defend themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27494]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64122]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plus, you'll have higher metal exports because of rising metal prices around the world, driven by Chinese growth ... and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plus, you'll have higher metal exports because of rising metal prices around the world, driven by Chinese growth ... and by the reconstruction of (typhoon affected) areas in the US.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you desire something from the bottom of your heart, then the entire universe will work for you to give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63038]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you desire something from the bottom of your heart, then the entire universe will work for you to give what you want. The more you believe in the process, the more you will attract towards you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The military has mishandled the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29788]]></link><description><![CDATA[The military has mishandled the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brain him with his lady's fan. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brain him with his lady's fan. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is born a genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is born a genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword. [Lat., Hinc quam sit calamus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46014]]></link><description><![CDATA[From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword. [Lat., Hinc quam sit calamus saevior euse, patet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cult of the jellyfish is no less an imposition of a religious movementthan is the cult of the dinosaur. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cult of the jellyfish is no less an imposition of a religious movementthan is the cult of the dinosaur. When designing a methodology it isundoubtedly far easier to construct a system that discourages individualdifferences, than it is to construct a system that that leverages andencourages them, but that does not mean that a methodology designed foran array of idealized entities will be the most productive, successful,or rewarding one. Choosing a cult methodology to be applied to a professionalclass is often an economic one, treating individuality as undesirable reducesthe professional to the proletariat, seen as less expensive and readilyreplaceable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19353]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[King Stephen was a worthy peere, His breeches cost him but a crowne;  He held them sixpence all too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58570]]></link><description><![CDATA[King Stephen was a worthy peere, His breeches cost him but a crowne;  He held them sixpence all too deere,   Therefore he call'd the taylor lowne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right is its own defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right is its own defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44644]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10734]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public is wiser than the wisest critic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public is wiser than the wisest critic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3572]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3572</guid></item></channel></rss>