<?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 put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41625]]></link><description><![CDATA[To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good deed I may do To a suffering fellow man, Let me do it while I can. No delay, for it is plain I shall not pass this way again. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most seditious is the most cowardly. [Lat., Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most seditious is the most cowardly. [Lat., Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64441]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though old and wise, yet still advise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though old and wise, yet still advise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a universe within himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a universe within himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43952]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All change, all production and generation are effected through the word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17236]]></link><description><![CDATA[All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, during those months the airmen and ship crews of the U.S. Navy learned the lessons we needed to win ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36864]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, during those months the airmen and ship crews of the U.S. Navy learned the lessons we needed to win the Battle of Midway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie cannot live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63227]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie cannot live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44990]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, andevermore he takes the Tool of Thought, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, andevermore he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, bringsforth a thousand joys, a thousand ills-He thinks in secret and it comes topass; Environment is but his looking-glass. As A Man Thinketh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vote early and vote often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vote early and vote often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Us seniors didn't want it to be our last game. I think we wanted it more than them at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Us seniors didn't want it to be our last game. I think we wanted it more than them at the end. It was a great game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a very kind and caring person, he was respected by everybody and he respected everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29906]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a very kind and caring person, he was respected by everybody and he respected everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22244]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37023]]></link><description><![CDATA[When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything can be discussed at the negotiating table. We have no red lines on anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything can be discussed at the negotiating table. We have no red lines on anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the worst form of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the worst form of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15008]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, the days of love and leaves are done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57006]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16770]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde;  But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe;   The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.   - edited by John Payne Collier,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65433]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20279]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really happy that I didn't see Capote until after we wrapped because I probably just would have been daunted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really happy that I didn't see Capote until after we wrapped because I probably just would have been daunted because he was so remarkable in that movie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What bird so sings, yet does so wail? O, 'tis the ravish'd nightingale--  Jug, jug, jug, jug--tereu, she cries, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44551]]></link><description><![CDATA[What bird so sings, yet does so wail? O, 'tis the ravish'd nightingale--  Jug, jug, jug, jug--tereu, she cries,   And still her woes at midnight rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1806]]></link><description><![CDATA[No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They kept telling me you have to have patience, ... Systems in the Caribbean in October take a long time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40860]]></link><description><![CDATA[They kept telling me you have to have patience, ... Systems in the Caribbean in October take a long time to develop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[One such item was an early 1900s royal scepter of England's King Edward VII. The lot opened with a minimum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33929]]></link><description><![CDATA[[One such item was an early 1900s royal scepter of England's King Edward VII. The lot opened with a minimum of $1,000. Thirty-five bids later, it sold for $40,100.] Any time an item sells for 40 times its opening bid, you've got to give it the credit it deserves, ... This auction has gone a long way to establishing the standards for many collectibles that to this point did not have benchmarks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11849]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through thick and thin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through thick and thin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not think that the U.N. is really perceived to be taking sides in toto, but there have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not think that the U.N. is really perceived to be taking sides in toto, but there have been complaints that certain personnel in the U.N. seem to favor, for example, the pro-independence groups.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9126]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64608]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In one compliance report you know exactly where you stand. You can see how many users and licenses you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30191]]></link><description><![CDATA[In one compliance report you know exactly where you stand. You can see how many users and licenses you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Run like hell and get the agony over with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Run like hell and get the agony over with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63808]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64003</guid></item></channel></rss>