<?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[The first wealth is health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18909]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first wealth is health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She told me immediately, 'He did not survive the storm and neither did his wife Susan and we've known for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34365]]></link><description><![CDATA[She told me immediately, 'He did not survive the storm and neither did his wife Susan and we've known for over two months but couldn't find any of his family members. So they didn't check. They didn't talk with FEMA, FEMA didn't talk with them and the Red Cross didn't talk to either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assassinations has never changed the history of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behavior...lacks the peculiarity that characterizes events ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behavior...lacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63766]]></link><description><![CDATA[A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53733]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dog wags its tail with its heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2634]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dog wags its tail with its heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paradise can be found on the back of horses, in books and between the breasts of women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paradise can be found on the back of horses, in books and between the breasts of women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and he is us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13866]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and he is us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8012]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in doubt, don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/878]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in doubt, don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42801]]></link><description><![CDATA[By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is the discovery that something is possible ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is the discovery that something is possible]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black is a pearl in a woman's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of movies. I like knowing what's coming and working to set that up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pink is the color of romance and a friend tells me that the girl with the pink dress at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pink is the color of romance and a friend tells me that the girl with the pink dress at the party is the one who is selected for each dance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such decisions require access to timely and accurate information, and when access is restricted, we are unable to provide oversight and fulfill our constitutional responsibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by.  Fill up my pilgrim's scrip ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3928]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by.  Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me,   For Christ's sweet sake and charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birdes of a feather will flocke togither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birdes of a feather will flocke togither.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Due to technical difficulties the light at the end of the tunnel will be off until further notice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Due to technical difficulties the light at the end of the tunnel will be off until further notice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is absolutely no justification for the actions you have taken, ... You have already defamed the uniform. Do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35870]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is absolutely no justification for the actions you have taken, ... You have already defamed the uniform. Do not drench it with dishonor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27466]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22950]]></link><description><![CDATA[This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we look back in three years, there's going to be a higher likelihood that those companies that repatriated substantial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35056]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we look back in three years, there's going to be a higher likelihood that those companies that repatriated substantial non-U.S. profits have done major transactions compared with companies that have not repatriated assets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get a second chance at beating the No. 1 team in the country, and we're not going to turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30015]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get a second chance at beating the No. 1 team in the country, and we're not going to turn this one down. We're being given a second chance to dig deep and get this one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work;  And nothing pleaseth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19575]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work;  And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46462]]></link><description><![CDATA[To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow,  Like a sheeted ghost, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56190]]></link><description><![CDATA[And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow,  Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept   Towards the reef of Norman's Woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the music of Beethoven, Bach and Charlie Parker, the Beatles' music was built to last - proving that a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the music of Beethoven, Bach and Charlie Parker, the Beatles' music was built to last - proving that a thing of beauty is a joy forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the timeout we talked about that we had fouls to burn -- 'Be very aggressive on every pass, get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28192]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the timeout we talked about that we had fouls to burn -- 'Be very aggressive on every pass, get after your man,' and that's what happened. We were able to knock the ball loose and go down and score.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds,  For the ashes of his fathers   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45796]]></link><description><![CDATA[And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds,  For the ashes of his fathers   And the temples of his gods?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is rich that is satisfied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2109]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is rich that is satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24384</guid></item></channel></rss>