<?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[Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.) -Bacon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.) -Bacon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class morality all the time . . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43108]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class morality all the time . . . . What is middle-class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44417]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a tough decision. I'm glad I don't have to make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39675]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a tough decision. I'm glad I don't have to make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55320]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every game we have to show up to play. The whole conference has really strengthened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every game we have to show up to play. The whole conference has really strengthened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future has a way of arriving unannounced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19419]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future has a way of arriving unannounced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28161]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27883]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure--and for such a tomb might be content ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13220]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure--and for such a tomb might be content to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9536]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24765]]></link><description><![CDATA[A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3806]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14199]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11277]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of one book. [Lat., Homo unius libri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4527]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of one book. [Lat., Homo unius libri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be done except little by little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be done except little by little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47222]]></link><description><![CDATA[An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. - Beyond the Horizon, 1942.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:120]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:120].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13251]]></link><description><![CDATA["Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God loves an idle rainbow, No less than laboring seas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52948]]></link><description><![CDATA[God loves an idle rainbow, No less than laboring seas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The music of the brook silenced all conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The music of the brook silenced all conversation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17952]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fewer words the better prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fewer words the better prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die! -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die! -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Spiral!" the memorable Lady terms Our mind's ascent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48372]]></link><description><![CDATA["Spiral!" the memorable Lady terms Our mind's ascent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upon closer inspection many of the allegedly negative implications of rising international trade and investment for jobs, wages and living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Upon closer inspection many of the allegedly negative implications of rising international trade and investment for jobs, wages and living standards are belied by the evidence,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62763]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48575]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect year-on-year inflation this month (December) to stand at around 18 percent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect year-on-year inflation this month (December) to stand at around 18 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love opposition that has convictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love opposition that has convictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15658]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52725]]></link><description><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flying rumours gather'd as the roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told;  And all who told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flying rumours gather'd as the roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told;  And all who told it added something new.   And all who heard it made enlargements too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62524]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906  Christ did not enchant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906  Christ did not enchant men; He demanded that they believe in Him: except on one occasion, the Transfiguration. For a brief while, Peter, James, and John were permitted to see Him in His glory. For that brief while they had no need of faith. The vision vanished, and the memory of it did not prevent them from all forsaking Him when He was arrested, or Peter from denying that he had ever known Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60185]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49442</guid></item></channel></rss>