<?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[Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recommend that the government articulates our very strong concerns that have been expressed about NMD in the UK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33841]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recommend that the government articulates our very strong concerns that have been expressed about NMD in the UK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home is the place where it feels right to walk around without shoes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home is the place where it feels right to walk around without shoes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That woman is a blessing from God. She was always looking toward the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41978]]></link><description><![CDATA[That woman is a blessing from God. She was always looking toward the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3687]]></link><description><![CDATA[My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12234]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy,a million deaths is a statistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11385]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy,a million deaths is a statistic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(for which he won numerous critics' prizes and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32621]]></link><description><![CDATA[(for which he won numerous critics' prizes and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were within one offense touchdown in the first half. It was just a matter of them wearing us out; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32762]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were within one offense touchdown in the first half. It was just a matter of them wearing us out; out-sized and out-speed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not just a private right - but one belonging to legislators as part of the separation of powers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32889]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not just a private right - but one belonging to legislators as part of the separation of powers and as part of the essential functions of government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think I have the chance to be making this team, but I think it's more of a learning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42592]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think I have the chance to be making this team, but I think it's more of a learning experience just going in and having fun and watching the other guys, seeing what they do and just kind of get a feel for what I have to do to get to this level,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don\'t find fault, find a remedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don\'t find fault, find a remedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time we got a camera it was gone, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30709]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time we got a camera it was gone,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21890]]></link><description><![CDATA[My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground,  With folded lids beneath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground,  With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow   The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A niche in the temple of Fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15085]]></link><description><![CDATA[A niche in the temple of Fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47465]]></link><description><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at,  And lose by over-running. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51355]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at,  And lose by over-running.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51355</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[have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58662]]></link><description><![CDATA[have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so. -The Two Gentleman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55329]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to the level of the demons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50447]]></link><description><![CDATA[He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hungry stomach rarely despises rough food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50176]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hungry stomach rarely despises rough food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer. [Lat., Ingenium magni detractat livor Homeri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer. [Lat., Ingenium magni detractat livor Homeri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63200]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is there so much month left at the end of the money? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger knows no friend but its feeder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9954]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goe not for every griefe to the Phtsitian, nor for every quarrell to the Lawyer, nor for every thirst to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goe not for every griefe to the Phtsitian, nor for every quarrell to the Lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18500]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very difficult to be great. Losers prove this point continuously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very difficult to be great. Losers prove this point continuously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17692]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4005]]></link><description><![CDATA[When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,  Wears yet a precious jewel in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,  Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;   And this our life, exempt from human haunt,    Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,     Sermons in stones, and good in everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches;  And most of sterling worth is what   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches;  And most of sterling worth is what   Our own experience preaches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talentsare, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talentsare, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given tous. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage anddetermination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt;  Unwritten history!   Unfathomed mystery!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt;  Unwritten history!   Unfathomed mystery!    Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks,     And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks,      As if his head were as full of kinks       And curious riddles as any sphinx!   - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3636</guid></item></channel></rss>