<?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[Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the mental-health field, it's sort of walking a tightrope. You can't treat someone by simply locking them up. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33726]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the mental-health field, it's sort of walking a tightrope. You can't treat someone by simply locking them up. It can be tough, but we try to minimize the risk as best we can and still provide treatment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42734]]></link><description><![CDATA[A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56905]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am pleased this judge concluded that Merck made a wrong move by trying to run from justice in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35983]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am pleased this judge concluded that Merck made a wrong move by trying to run from justice in a Texas state court,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51368]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perch'd on the cedar's topmost bough, And gay with gilded wings,  Perchance the patron of his vow,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perch'd on the cedar's topmost bough, And gay with gilded wings,  Perchance the patron of his vow,   Some artless linnet sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the sources of our troubles, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57886]]></link><description><![CDATA[No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard. [Lat., Hi narrata ferunt alio; mensuraque ficti  Crescit et auditus aliquid novus adjicit auctor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1463]]></link><description><![CDATA[A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts,"probably lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts,"probably lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a deception, ... What John Paul II said was that these tribunals must work according to truth, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a deception, ... What John Paul II said was that these tribunals must work according to truth, and not according to 'Oh, these people are suffering so and let us declare it invalid.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3128]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel pretty good about (the retirement) because frankly there are not too many guys in my business who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29864]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel pretty good about (the retirement) because frankly there are not too many guys in my business who can do it. I feel grateful the university has been so good to me and my family. I have a chancellor that has been very supportive of me, and his cooperation on what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. I think that is very unique to have a situation like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Performance is your reality. Forget everything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank you for your voices: thank you: Your most sweet voices. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56077]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank you for your voices: thank you: Your most sweet voices. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15346]]></link><description><![CDATA[You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such a blush In the midst of brown was born,  Like red poppies grown with corn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such a blush In the midst of brown was born,  Like red poppies grown with corn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In September 2004, I had 2,000 tons of inventory; by the first week of September 2005 there was no inventory. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42111]]></link><description><![CDATA[In September 2004, I had 2,000 tons of inventory; by the first week of September 2005 there was no inventory. We were wiped out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I said to myself, 'That's an omen, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37789]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I said to myself, 'That's an omen,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47232]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20643]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all candles be out, all cats be gray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5333]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all candles be out, all cats be gray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up  As chance will have it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15292]]></link><description><![CDATA[We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up  As chance will have it, on the rock or sand:   For Thought is tired of wandering o'er the world,    And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18939]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Place saw My best days, My Happiest, My Wife having blessed me with Your Brother Woodhouse... I Calculated, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38843]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Place saw My best days, My Happiest, My Wife having blessed me with Your Brother Woodhouse... I Calculated, to Live and died in Comfort, Our Business Was good of course We agreed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.   - John Ruskin, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.   - John Ruskin,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised, once the benchmark number comes in, that we're going to be much closer to 2 percent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34726]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised, once the benchmark number comes in, that we're going to be much closer to 2 percent than the current growth of 1.3 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43879]]></link><description><![CDATA[What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will is the dynamic soul-force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will is the dynamic soul-force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do the wordsof the Peaceful Masterbecome the tiradesof warmonger pastors? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8229]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do the wordsof the Peaceful Masterbecome the tiradesof warmonger pastors?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, which put a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:  But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember the Viper:--'twas close at your feet, How you started and threw yourself into my arms;  Not a strawberry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember the Viper:--'twas close at your feet, How you started and threw yourself into my arms;  Not a strawberry there was so ripe nor so sweet   As the lips which I kiss'd to subdue your alarms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40813]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leslie has three children, and she takes a lot of pride in that she built her business around her family ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leslie has three children, and she takes a lot of pride in that she built her business around her family life. She was able to get her kids off to the school bus and have her business wrapped by the time they came home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure water is the best of gifts that man to man can bring, But who am I that I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure water is the best of gifts that man to man can bring, But who am I that I should have the best of anything?  Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free,   Whisky, or wine, or even beer is good enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17791</guid></item></channel></rss>