<?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[By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20873]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more:  Too common! Never morning wore  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25587]]></link><description><![CDATA[That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more:  Too common! Never morning wore   To evening, but some heart did break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of the people who were at that board meeting, can I see a show of hands of those who heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of the people who were at that board meeting, can I see a show of hands of those who heard her cuss me out?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58409]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, "He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditionally, women have done cosmetic surgery to be competitive along beauty standards. Now men are doing that but for competition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traditionally, women have done cosmetic surgery to be competitive along beauty standards. Now men are doing that but for competition in the workplace. These guys are competing along lines of status and power in a market economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/768]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4519]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arrogance diminishes wisdom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arrogance diminishes wisdom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22629]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In original discussions, we were talking about an elevated system. They are not huge adjustments but there are adjustments that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33939]]></link><description><![CDATA[In original discussions, we were talking about an elevated system. They are not huge adjustments but there are adjustments that would have to be made. They have set aside some money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hippies are lots of fun, as long as they are not involved in commerce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hippies are lots of fun, as long as they are not involved in commerce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almes never make poore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almes never make poore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an awful lot of capital out there for financial buyers to acquire these types of companies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42483]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an awful lot of capital out there for financial buyers to acquire these types of companies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26155]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27691]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5415]]></link><description><![CDATA[If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long,"  'Tis not with me exactly so;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61777]]></link><description><![CDATA["Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long,"  'Tis not with me exactly so;   But 'tis so in the song.    My wants are many, and, if told,     Would muster many a score;      And were each wish a mint of gold,       I still should long for more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience means self-suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience means self-suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66611]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1248]]></link><description><![CDATA[At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wasn't a hard choice. They look at people that graduate from Rice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wasn't a hard choice. They look at people that graduate from Rice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56614]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Puns are a form of humor with words.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Puns are a form of humor with words.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8976]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15279]]></link><description><![CDATA[While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feares are divided in the midst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feares are divided in the midst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Word of God must always be heard quite specifically and in a new way, varying according to the conditions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Word of God must always be heard quite specifically and in a new way, varying according to the conditions under which it is preached. Faith is not an acceptance of general, abstract truths, but an answer and a decision at a certain time and in a very certain place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot masturbate]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4951]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it.The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47655]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it.The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64660]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you marry for money, you will surely earn it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15916]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52031]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless the president can stop the political rhetoric on both sides, we will not get to conference committee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless the president can stop the political rhetoric on both sides, we will not get to conference committee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-night, at least, to-night be gay, Whate'er to-morrow brings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50682]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-night, at least, to-night be gay, Whate'er to-morrow brings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We                    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40691]]></link><description><![CDATA[We                                                             want to give a visual example of the project's intention, inspire other artists to submit proposals and get local merchants to sponsor those artists,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets are sultans, if they had their will: For every author would his brother kill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets are sultans, if they had their will: For every author would his brother kill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17813]]></link><description><![CDATA[A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[VAT is levied according to national laws, so the nine countries would have to amend their legislation accordingly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41586]]></link><description><![CDATA[VAT is levied according to national laws, so the nine countries would have to amend their legislation accordingly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is the test of integrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is the test of integrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5174</guid></item></channel></rss>