<?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[The Rich knowes not who is his friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rich knowes not who is his friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Java is much more programmer-friendly than C or C++, or was for a few years there until they made just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Java is much more programmer-friendly than C or C++, or was for a few years there until they made just as complicated. It's become arguably even harder to learn than C++, ... PHP is such is an easier environment to develop in than Java.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are immobile and voiceless,and cannot ask for the mercy of water,those trapped caged house plants.In the winter they feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27374]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are immobile and voiceless,and cannot ask for the mercy of water,those trapped caged house plants.In the winter they feel no breezenor are they touched by a hand which frees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's this huge number of desperate people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40881]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's this huge number of desperate people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets. These men should not be encouraged, their fantasies are sadly low-rent and unimaginative. Affect an aloof, cool demeanor as soon as any man tries to draw you out. Unless, of course, he's the pilot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21830]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As many mince pies as you taste at Christmas' so many happy months will you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8644]]></link><description><![CDATA[As many mince pies as you taste at Christmas' so many happy months will you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sonny was a no-frills kind of guy. He shot straight from the shoulder. You knew exactly where you stood with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sonny was a no-frills kind of guy. He shot straight from the shoulder. You knew exactly where you stood with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where's the snow That fell the year that's fled--where's the snow? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where's the snow That fell the year that's fled--where's the snow?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of posterity is to look after itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of posterity is to look after itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50918]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very proud of what's taking place in Old Town. We've seen a big increase in traffic there with all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28172]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very proud of what's taking place in Old Town. We've seen a big increase in traffic there with all the new shops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book might be written on the injustice of the just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4574]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book might be written on the injustice of the just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is the architect of his own fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is the architect of his own fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64131]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49414]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23305]]></link><description><![CDATA[A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, it's much harder to make the right jokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4687]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  [The] doctrine of [inevitable] progress sustained our fathers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  [The] doctrine of [inevitable] progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. Its core was the conviction that, in thus extending the range of western liberal culture and developing its assumptions, they were in effect establishing on earth that which would grow into the kingdom of God. Some put it sharply but un-Biblically: "building the kingdom"; others, of a more secular turn of mind, echoed J. A. Symonds' hymn, "These Things Shall Be". That whole view exists today only as debris, for it has foundered on the rocks, not so much of human sin, as of the contradictions and complexities of the very western culture that was the substance of its belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are a Spanish radio station company that goes after Hispanics that are bilingual. They really live in two cultures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28903]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are a Spanish radio station company that goes after Hispanics that are bilingual. They really live in two cultures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Halcyon days. -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Halcyon days. -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better late than never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better late than never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even critics of the economy say we are resilient. We are more than resilient, we are tough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even critics of the economy say we are resilient. We are more than resilient, we are tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just shows how global basketball is, how unifying basketball is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28869]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just shows how global basketball is, how unifying basketball is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing is that they won the game. And that's what I've always said about Wilt's 100-point game. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing is that they won the game. And that's what I've always said about Wilt's 100-point game. We won the game. ... That's the reason you play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23476]]></link><description><![CDATA[We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong. [Or, What doesn't kill youmakes you stronger.]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21074]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong. [Or, What doesn't kill youmakes you stronger.].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27941]]></link><description><![CDATA[No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52342]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries greater weight than our self-interest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My husband was very enthusiastic, and my children are all investing. They have done some work with stock themselves because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36433]]></link><description><![CDATA[My husband was very enthusiastic, and my children are all investing. They have done some work with stock themselves because of our interest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. [Lat., Divine Plato escam malorum appeliat voluptatem, quod ea videlicet homines capiantur, ut pisces hamo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18410]]></link><description><![CDATA[All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all attain perfection When they find joy in their work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23440]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all attain perfection When they find joy in their work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acon his right, Leonilla her left eye Doth want; yet each in form, the gods out-vie.  Sweet boy, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acon his right, Leonilla her left eye Doth want; yet each in form, the gods out-vie.  Sweet boy, with thine, thy sister's sight improved:   So shall she Venus be, thou God of Love.    [Lat., Lumine Acon dextre,--capta est Leonilla sinistre,     Et potis est forma vincere uterque dees:      Blande puer, lumen quod habes concede sorori,       Sic tu caecus Amor, sic erit illa Venus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love came down at Christmas; love all lovely, love divine; love was born at Christmas, stars and angels gave the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love came down at Christmas; love all lovely, love divine; love was born at Christmas, stars and angels gave the sign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The state] doesn't have any evidence of harassment. It would be a travesty if the court allowed the charges to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39664]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The state] doesn't have any evidence of harassment. It would be a travesty if the court allowed the charges to go forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/474]]></link><description><![CDATA[To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47236]]></link><description><![CDATA[People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they couldn't do anywhere else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61628]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44118]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, "What's in it for me?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60191</guid></item></channel></rss>