<?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[All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3001]]></link><description><![CDATA[All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3966]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manufacturing activity in the region appears to have cooled off. We suspect it will be another month or two before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manufacturing activity in the region appears to have cooled off. We suspect it will be another month or two before auto manufacturers start ramping up production to replenish sales-depleted inventories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The celebration of unbounded individualism means, beyond some point, the acceptance of force- either private (crime, riot, vigilanteism) or public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The celebration of unbounded individualism means, beyond some point, the acceptance of force- either private (crime, riot, vigilanteism) or public (authoritarianism).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It smelt so faint, and it smelt so sweet, It made me creep and it made me cold.  Like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23124]]></link><description><![CDATA[It smelt so faint, and it smelt so sweet, It made me creep and it made me cold.  Like the scent that steals from the crumbling sheet   Where a mummy is half unroll'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This ae nighte, this ae nighte Every nighte and all;  Fire and sleete, and candle lighte   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57263]]></link><description><![CDATA[This ae nighte, this ae nighte Every nighte and all;  Fire and sleete, and candle lighte   And Christe receive thye saule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30476]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always root for the winner. That way you won't be disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always root for the winner. That way you won't be disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody remembers Ironton in its heyday in the '40s and '50s, that's when Ironton was booming and we've gone downhill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody remembers Ironton in its heyday in the '40s and '50s, that's when Ironton was booming and we've gone downhill, and we have, we've hit rock bottom, ... But if we all don't stand together, we're not going to stand back up. It's going to take all of us to put it back on track.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either every robot can dance the robot, or no robot can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either every robot can dance the robot, or no robot can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She must temper her anger and frustration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38910]]></link><description><![CDATA[She must temper her anger and frustration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWB could not inform DFAT and the UN that that debt was being paid out of these two (wheat) contracts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38435]]></link><description><![CDATA[AWB could not inform DFAT and the UN that that debt was being paid out of these two (wheat) contracts without disclosing that the actions in 1995/1996 had themselves been outside the sanctions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead:  And in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead:  And in whatever state a man be thrown,   'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will undergo intensive treatment and will be reassessed late next week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34721]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will undergo intensive treatment and will be reassessed late next week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26442]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a lot of overlapping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65039]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who so loves believes the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who so loves believes the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People make decisions that undermine their goals every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41565]]></link><description><![CDATA[People make decisions that undermine their goals every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident. -James P. Hogan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As quick as lightning, in the breach Just in the place where honour's lodged,  As wise philosophers have judged, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19715]]></link><description><![CDATA[As quick as lightning, in the breach Just in the place where honour's lodged,  As wise philosophers have judged,   Because a kick in that place more    Hurts honour than deep wounds before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diversity, that is my motto. [Fr., Diversite, c'est ma devise.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diversity, that is my motto. [Fr., Diversite, c'est ma devise.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt--and children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt--and children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the soft sigh, whilst the soul-telling eye Is dimm'd for a time with a tear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the soft sigh, whilst the soul-telling eye Is dimm'd for a time with a tear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This isn't only a boon for the county, it also now offers protection for those people who partake in gambling, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32390]]></link><description><![CDATA[This isn't only a boon for the county, it also now offers protection for those people who partake in gambling, whether it's regulated or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49374]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22228]]></link><description><![CDATA[I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself making perfect runs with emphasis on technique, all the way through to what my personal best is in practice.... The more you work with this type of visualization, especially when you do it on a day-to-day basis, you'll actually begin to feel your muscles contracting at the appropriate times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand,  Have written ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18348]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand,  Have written strange defeatures in my face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52030]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part. His self-assertive tendency is the dynamic manifestation of his unique wholeness, his autonomy and independence as a holon. Its equally universal antagonist, the integrative tendency, expresses his dependence on the larger whole to which he belongs: his 'part-ness.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22313]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy and the NettlesA boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy and the NettlesA boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Although it hurts me very much, I only touched it gently. That was just why it stung you, said his Mother. The next time you touch a Nettle, grasp it boldly, and it will be soft as silk to your hand, and not in the least hurt you. Whatever you do, do with all your might.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you? -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you? -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1806]]></link><description><![CDATA[No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63488]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20400]]></link><description><![CDATA[For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17895]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17895</guid></item></channel></rss>