<?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[People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20862]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16392]]></link><description><![CDATA[The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old dog barks not in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49127]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old dog barks not in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to travel well than to arrive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65239]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to travel well than to arrive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be bastards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be bastards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode  (There they alike in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5699]]></link><description><![CDATA[No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode  (There they alike in trembling hope repose),   The bosom of his Father and his God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37537]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So full of artless jealousy is guilt It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23166]]></link><description><![CDATA[So full of artless jealousy is guilt It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't read lips unless they're touching mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23853]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't read lips unless they're touching mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19444]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3761]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all attain perfection When they find joy in their work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23440]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all attain perfection When they find joy in their work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun;  And he who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20597]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun;  And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife,   From strength to strength advancing--only he    His soul well-knit, and all his battles won,     Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cold case will be brought back to full light. It'll be tough to prosecute but the Crown will succeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cold case will be brought back to full light. It'll be tough to prosecute but the Crown will succeed by March 12. It involves someone found in a forest, and it feels like the person is coming up on more than one charge. There's going to be lots of public controversy around this case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4363]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like we are making a crucial step in helping to preserve the Boulder area, and this very special ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like we are making a crucial step in helping to preserve the Boulder area, and this very special corner of the West.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49870]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became  A funeral dower of present woes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became  A funeral dower of present woes and past,   On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame,    And annals graved in characters of flame.     [It., Italia, Italia, O tu cui feo la sorte,      Dono infelice di bellezza, ond' hai       Funesta dote d'infiniti guai        Che in fronte scritti per gran doglia porte.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My home is not a place, it is people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65408]]></link><description><![CDATA[My home is not a place, it is people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29464]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe he was making weekly trips to Mexico for the specific purpose of buying heroin -- up to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe he was making weekly trips to Mexico for the specific purpose of buying heroin -- up to a pound at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six months later, when it becomes the generic company Wild West show, the price tends to drop to about 20 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Six months later, when it becomes the generic company Wild West show, the price tends to drop to about 20 percent of the [branded] price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing some very strong global growth trends so that should prop up exports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36352]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing some very strong global growth trends so that should prop up exports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who are the violets now That strew the green lap of the new-come spring? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who are the violets now That strew the green lap of the new-come spring?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou art rich, thou'rt poor, For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,  Thou bear'st thy heavy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61424]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou art rich, thou'rt poor, For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,  Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey,   And death unloads thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54816]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real power comes out of a long rifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real power comes out of a long rifle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of kids get caught in a gap. They think they're going to college, but when they graduate, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33190]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of kids get caught in a gap. They think they're going to college, but when they graduate, they have a job or are not sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar,  Although one summer evening's dew could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10978]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar,  Although one summer evening's dew could fill   Its little cup twice over, ere the star    Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold,     And be no prodigal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, Microsoft has behaved like the clear-cutters of the computer software industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34576]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, Microsoft has behaved like the clear-cutters of the computer software industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28137]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one of the most emotionally eloquent performances of the year. It shows how Hollywood has just scratched the surface ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33122]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one of the most emotionally eloquent performances of the year. It shows how Hollywood has just scratched the surface of her talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So I think that some of the fears that people have posed about what this type of publication directly on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28957]]></link><description><![CDATA[So I think that some of the fears that people have posed about what this type of publication directly on the Internet will mean for the book publishing industry have been vastly overstated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(S)ex scenes and bathroom jokes are my bread and butter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39025]]></link><description><![CDATA[(S)ex scenes and bathroom jokes are my bread and butter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43321]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25330]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the parent of faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the parent of faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21732</guid></item></channel></rss>