<?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[I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53337]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idle men are the devil's playfellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idle men are the devil's playfellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12703]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our 1999 (U.S.) GDP forecast was cut to 0.7 percent from 1.8 percent, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our 1999 (U.S.) GDP forecast was cut to 0.7 percent from 1.8 percent,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk,  The beetle booms adown the glooms   And bumps along the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3916]]></link><description><![CDATA[O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk,  The beetle booms adown the glooms   And bumps along the dusk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[our day will come is another way of saying you get yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14500]]></link><description><![CDATA[our day will come is another way of saying you get yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going on to see all these good things that the company and my team did without me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never take my own side in a quarrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52689]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never take my own side in a quarrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I value the privacy of my home and personal life extremely highly and am prepared to take appropriate measures to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42049]]></link><description><![CDATA[I value the privacy of my home and personal life extremely highly and am prepared to take appropriate measures to protect it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst deluded are the self-deluded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11851]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst deluded are the self-deluded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12054]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Funerals are all abstract ceremony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Funerals are all abstract ceremony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a game that two can play and both win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a game that two can play and both win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51517]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60005]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged index of social position. . . . Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilized mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35738]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crafty knave needs no broker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10661]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crafty knave needs no broker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4564]]></link><description><![CDATA[A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker. [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56218]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker. [Fr., Quand nous veoyons un homme mal chausse, nous disons que ce n'est pas merveille, s'il est chausstier.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not any hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient Stimulus to be creative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11248]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38585]]></link><description><![CDATA[At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the right thing to do. It's not the right thing to risk to try to get in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the right thing to do. It's not the right thing to risk to try to get in this country through these very dangerous areas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm in. It was prom, the whole thing is like a movie, so making it into a movie ... it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29970]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm in. It was prom, the whole thing is like a movie, so making it into a movie ... it was like the whole point of the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see, the jewel best enamelled Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still  That others touch, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see, the jewel best enamelled Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still  That others touch, and often touching will   Wear gold; and no man that hath a name,    By falsehood and corruption doth it shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lisa took the game on her back in the second half for us. She stepped up her game and said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lisa took the game on her back in the second half for us. She stepped up her game and said we weren't going to lose. On any given night any one of our players can step up. She played great defensively and knocked down a couple of shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16776]]></link><description><![CDATA[... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By "guts" I mean, grace under pressure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18073]]></link><description><![CDATA[By "guts" I mean, grace under pressure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3469]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll have a fling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll have a fling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven means to be one with God.   - Confucius, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven means to be one with God.   - Confucius,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man of science is a poor philosopher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man of science is a poor philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26254]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All politicians are control freaks; they think they own you. Crazy mayors want to tax the Internet. If government finds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36668]]></link><description><![CDATA[All politicians are control freaks; they think they own you. Crazy mayors want to tax the Internet. If government finds they can't tax the shopkeepers, they'll tax the shoppers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15652]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47541]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47541</guid></item></channel></rss>