<?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[Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one in this world, so far as I know- and I have researched the records for years, and employed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57014]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one in this world, so far as I know- and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me- has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well against Chelsea, but it's about points now. We need to beat West Brom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39341]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well against Chelsea, but it's about points now. We need to beat West Brom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The resolution passed by the IAEA board of governors on 24 September makes clear the depth of international concern at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The resolution passed by the IAEA board of governors on 24 September makes clear the depth of international concern at Iran's decision. It remains to be seen how Iran will respond. Iran has an opportunity now to come into line with requests made by the IAEA board; we hope it would choose that constructive path.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/355]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. [Lat., De vitiis nostris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60494]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. [Lat., De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa calcamus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63549]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stick and a string with a fly at one end and a fool at the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16096]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stick and a string with a fly at one end and a fool at the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66040]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51451]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24128]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even from the body's purity, the mind Receives a secret sympathetic aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even from the body's purity, the mind Receives a secret sympathetic aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54209]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How is the government going to run without people like us? We make 35 percent of the bread in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34120]]></link><description><![CDATA[How is the government going to run without people like us? We make 35 percent of the bread in this country, and that much of the margarine, and cooking oil, and all the other things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings. - "The Washington Post", June 13, 1978. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings. - "The Washington Post", June 13, 1978.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The side played sensationally. Wherever that leaves us in the table, we can be happy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The side played sensationally. Wherever that leaves us in the table, we can be happy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60245]]></link><description><![CDATA[No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry.  But were we burd'ned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/702]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry.  But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain,   As much or more we should ourselves complain:    So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee,     With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me;      But if thou live to see like right bereft,       This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  The minister is the servant of his people, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  The minister is the servant of his people, who has to help them discern for themselves the will of God for their real work in the real world. It will often be his duty, therefore, to establish a certain economy in the internal life of the Church, so that people are released to give time and energy to fulfilment of their Christian duty in the worlds of industry or politics or business or professional life, where their most determinative decisions have to be taken. A new puritanism is urgently needed in most churches, which cuts away ruthlessly from their life all organizations and activities which prevent their members from grappling with their real task.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66528]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the world loves a good loser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65237]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world loves a good loser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a vast early warning system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19391]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a vast early warning system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2323]]></link><description><![CDATA[They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were identified as being a danger to Greenway users. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40583]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were identified as being a danger to Greenway users.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools. -As You Like It. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart,  And press a suit with passion,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart,  And press a suit with passion,   Is not a woman's part.    If man come not to gather     The roses where they stand,      They fade among their foliage,       They cannot seek his hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hit some free throws at the end and did a good job defensively. We're pleased with what we're doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33769]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hit some free throws at the end and did a good job defensively. We're pleased with what we're doing right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51221]]></link><description><![CDATA[The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23050]]></link><description><![CDATA[When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fraud is the ready minister of injustice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're an Italian family, so that is good. She makes it very easy to be a guest in our home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30496]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're an Italian family, so that is good. She makes it very easy to be a guest in our home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44156</guid></item></channel></rss>