<?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[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/34606]]></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/34606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25649]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start counting them on one hand, you don't need many fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51318]]></link><description><![CDATA[What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59778]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A miniature like this would have been a love token. The braid of hair has a great deal of intimacy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A miniature like this would have been a love token. The braid of hair has a great deal of intimacy and personal significance for whomever would have owned this miniature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are many counsellors there is safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are many counsellors there is safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This sort of military propaganda will definitely give them (those seeking tougher action) more ammunition to level more accusations against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41308]]></link><description><![CDATA[This sort of military propaganda will definitely give them (those seeking tougher action) more ammunition to level more accusations against Iran that Iran is under a military minded government and leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22558]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.   - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5023]]></link><description><![CDATA[You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.   - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/419]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are the portals of discovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are the portals of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows--  The best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows--  The best I had, a princess wrought it me--   And I did never ask it you again;    And with my hand at midnight held your head,     And like the watchful minutes to the hour,      Still and anon cheered up the heavy time,       Saying, 'What lack you?' and 'Where lies your grief?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32660]]></link><description><![CDATA[O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59667]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a warningheart attack inhis 30'safter a mealof macaroni and cheeseand big mac'sand macaroons.. but Godgave him a 2nd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17586]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a warningheart attack inhis 30'safter a mealof macaroni and cheeseand big mac'sand macaroons.. but Godgave him a 2nd chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23973]]></link><description><![CDATA[One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abortion will be outlawed in a number of states, but that doesn't mean it will be banned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abortion will be outlawed in a number of states, but that doesn't mean it will be banned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55565]]></link><description><![CDATA[For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ocean:rocking cradle of the world, sunset stairway to the stars.. only by great masters trod, only written on by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17727]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ocean:rocking cradle of the world, sunset stairway to the stars.. only by great masters trod, only written on by God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense  Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense  Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough,   Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary    And pitch our evils there?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3113]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last time we did this there was some criticism on our procedure. It wasn't the selection. I want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last time we did this there was some criticism on our procedure. It wasn't the selection. I want to make that very clear. It was the way we handled ourselves on the logistics of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let nothing pass which will advantage you; Hairy in front, Occasion's bald behind.  [Lat., Rem tibi quam nosces aptam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let nothing pass which will advantage you; Hairy in front, Occasion's bald behind.  [Lat., Rem tibi quam nosces aptam dimittere noli;   Fronte capillata, post est occasio calva.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -Salvor Hardin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -Salvor Hardin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was one of those cheesy model-type things where we had to walk across a runway like a piece of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41897]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was one of those cheesy model-type things where we had to walk across a runway like a piece of meat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a method in man's wickedness: It grows up by degrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48616]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a method in man's wickedness: It grows up by degrees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning men deal in generalizations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning men deal in generalizations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves him?Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me. - Ae Fond Kiss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not done. That's the one thing at this level. Recruiting is really not done until late August. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33920]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not done. That's the one thing at this level. Recruiting is really not done until late August.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26598]]></link><description><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption is a malady not only effecting developing countries, but also the developed world, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption is a malady not only effecting developing countries, but also the developed world,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60262]]></link><description><![CDATA[As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60262</guid></item></channel></rss>