<?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[If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1654]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon."N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon."N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire. - Pensees d'Aout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is to know whether Israel wants peace or not, and if it is ready to respect its international ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is to know whether Israel wants peace or not, and if it is ready to respect its international engagements, notably the roadmap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They come out with a skill set and a belief that nobody but themselves will control their careers, ... Baby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31094]]></link><description><![CDATA[They come out with a skill set and a belief that nobody but themselves will control their careers, ... Baby boomers took a very different approach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53471]]></link><description><![CDATA[As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14184]]></link><description><![CDATA[An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of these companies are privately owned, and they now reach a point in their evolution where they grow to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of these companies are privately owned, and they now reach a point in their evolution where they grow to the point where they may lose family control of the business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That would hang us, every mother's son. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55517]]></link><description><![CDATA[That would hang us, every mother's son. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suggestion of establishing this society is profitable for the citizens because it keeps them a way from the greedy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suggestion of establishing this society is profitable for the citizens because it keeps them a way from the greedy merchants in the local markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting men are the city's fortress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting men are the city's fortress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4825]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past orpresent are certain to miss the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past orpresent are certain to miss the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world. [Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world. [Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch,  Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23261]]></link><description><![CDATA[It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch,  Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest;   Would thou could'st make the time to do so too;    I'll wind thee up no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing where people are, where they want to ride the bus and where they want to get off allows us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing where people are, where they want to ride the bus and where they want to get off allows us to put the busses out exactly where people want to go and that allows us to keep the fares at the same level that they've been for 10 years despite what we've seen fuel prices and other costs do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5614]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft and faire goes farre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft and faire goes farre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tobacco operating fundamentals sequentially strengthened from the first to the second quarter, and third-quarter performance generally retained that stronger momentum. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tobacco operating fundamentals sequentially strengthened from the first to the second quarter, and third-quarter performance generally retained that stronger momentum. Results are also particularly encouraging, in our view, given Kraft's continued weak and disappointing overall operating performance...[Philip Morris USA] is delivering an improved balance of market share and operating profit performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are so savvy. They roll out the red carpet. They can really talk about the quality of the area. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40811]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are so savvy. They roll out the red carpet. They can really talk about the quality of the area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37335]]></link><description><![CDATA[But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you,  Without a thought disloyal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you,  Without a thought disloyal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536  God is our true Friend, who always gives us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536  God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us. We know well enough how to keep outward silence, and to hush our spoken words, but we know little of interior silence. It consists in hushing our idle, restless, wandering imagination, in quieting the promptings of our worldly minds, and in suppressing the crowd of unprofitable thoughts which excite and disturb the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had an opportunity and it just didn't happen. We were in good shape in overtime, it just didn't go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34131]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had an opportunity and it just didn't happen. We were in good shape in overtime, it just didn't go our way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such pains, such pleasures now alike are o'er, And beaus and etiquette shall soon exist no more  At their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such pains, such pleasures now alike are o'er, And beaus and etiquette shall soon exist no more  At their speed behold advancing   Modern men and women dancing;    Step and dress alike express     Above, below from heel to toe,      Male and female awkwardness.       Without a hoop, without a ruffle,        One eternal jig and shuffle,         Where's the air and where's the gait?          Where's the feather in the hat?           Where the frizzed toupee? and where            Oh! where's the powder for the hair?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand  The Thing became a trumpet; whence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4344]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand  The Thing became a trumpet; whence he blew   Soul-animating strains--alas! too few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63028]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65104]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21208]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59258]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66690]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42535]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Towers of silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Towers of silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25811]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats need it; we don't. But it poses no harm, either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats need it; we don't. But it poses no harm, either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're like a family and there's a lot of teamwork to help each other here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31013]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're like a family and there's a lot of teamwork to help each other here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31013</guid></item></channel></rss>