<?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[Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15008]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you are, be a good one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you are, be a good one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it and not break my troth. -Love's Labour 's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it and not break my troth. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day,  And woman's plighted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day,  And woman's plighted faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I could trace my origins to Judas Maccabaeus or King David, that would not add one inch to my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36749]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could trace my origins to Judas Maccabaeus or King David, that would not add one inch to my stature. It may well be that many East European Jews are descended from Khazars, I may be one of them. Who knows? And who cares?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59807]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64722]]></link><description><![CDATA[No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people, especially officials, don't have the courage to speak up against corruption. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people, especially officials, don't have the courage to speak up against corruption.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's real life is often the life that one does not lead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53222]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's real life is often the life that one does not lead]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness wins the confidence of princes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness wins the confidence of princes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd.   Lady, it is to be presumed,    Though art's hid causes are not found,     All is not sweet, all is not sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27208]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No problem is too big to run away from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64474]]></link><description><![CDATA[No problem is too big to run away from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4956]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20334]]></link><description><![CDATA[What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45912]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23461]]></link><description><![CDATA[He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him. (2 Kings 18:5)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47375]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery--psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52187]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery--psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be secure, and only in freedom can men produce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be secure, and only in freedom can men produce those material resources which can secure them from want at home and against aggression from abroad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8747]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. [Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. [Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad vamam protulat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2427]]></link><description><![CDATA[We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire is next akin to smoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire is next akin to smoke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want to pick a family that just created a fund they don't have a history in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35356]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want to pick a family that just created a fund they don't have a history in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Splitting up the portfolio is more than an accounting measure. I've handled cases where the portfolios were really diverse. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Splitting up the portfolio is more than an accounting measure. I've handled cases where the portfolios were really diverse. If I hadn't stepped in, the wife would have been stuck with capital gains that she had no clue about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loved every minute of it. But to say I had a little stress would be an understatement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38340]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loved every minute of it. But to say I had a little stress would be an understatement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13236]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are slow to believe that which, if true, would grieve us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50799]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are slow to believe that which, if true, would grieve us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I know no South, no North, no East, no West, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45771]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240  We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain have you acquired knowledge if you have notimparted it to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21692]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain have you acquired knowledge if you have notimparted it to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was some very good competition there from all over Sacramento, and Randall did a good job. The kid ahead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34005]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was some very good competition there from all over Sacramento, and Randall did a good job. The kid ahead of him was one of best throwers in his area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word  When they met in the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12559]]></link><description><![CDATA[And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word  When they met in the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15590</guid></item></channel></rss>