<?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 concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible. -- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64346]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14214]]></link><description><![CDATA[With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish, In the Palaeozoic time,  And side by side in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14359]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish, In the Palaeozoic time,  And side by side in the sluggish tide   We sprawled in the ooze and slime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eye will have his part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49841]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eye will have his part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63693]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43377]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18474]]></link><description><![CDATA[How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47258]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18622]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24418]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! -As You Like It. Act v. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55691]]></link><description><![CDATA[How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5430]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51151]]></link><description><![CDATA[He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5670]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all those who have not a single virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60503]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all those who have not a single virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These most brisk and giddy-paced times. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55748]]></link><description><![CDATA[These most brisk and giddy-paced times. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62748]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. [Ger., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. [Ger., Das Aergste weiss die Welt von mir, und ich  Kann sagen, ich bin besser als mein Ruf.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-2 Watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55438]]></link><description><![CDATA[-2 Watch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he is leading them away from their unwanted selves. Surrender to a leader is not a means to an end but a fulfillment. Whither they are led is of secondary importance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She portrayed more knowledge and passion about drug control policy than I had ever imagined one person could know about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29140]]></link><description><![CDATA[She portrayed more knowledge and passion about drug control policy than I had ever imagined one person could know about any subject.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63759]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48901]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9029]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect. [Fr., Nul n'est content de sa fortune;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54724]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect. [Fr., Nul n'est content de sa fortune;  Ni mecontent de son esprit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't born with enough middle fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49272]]></link><description><![CDATA[God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of the residents thought because they were going south, the climate was going to be a lot warmer, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38726]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of the residents thought because they were going south, the climate was going to be a lot warmer,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824, there set in a great flood upon that town--the tide rose to an incredible height: the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interest in this technology abroad was much higher for airport security because there weren't as many issues related to privacy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Interest in this technology abroad was much higher for airport security because there weren't as many issues related to privacy as in the U.S..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But these are foolish things to all the wise, And I love wisdom more than she loves me;  My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61754]]></link><description><![CDATA[But these are foolish things to all the wise, And I love wisdom more than she loves me;  My tendency is to philosophise   On most things, from a tyrant to a tree;    But still the spouseless virgin Knowledge flies,     What are we? and whence come we? what shall be      Our ultimate existence? What's our present?       Are questions answerless, and yet incessant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the emperor, and I want dumplings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the emperor, and I want dumplings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To lose a friend is hardship, but to forget them is as if you died too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17000]]></link><description><![CDATA[To lose a friend is hardship, but to forget them is as if you died too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Must I give way and room to your rash choler? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Must I give way and room to your rash choler?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26996</guid></item></channel></rss>