<?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 only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest qualities of character… must be earned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest qualities of character… must be earned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move and trees to speak; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;  Augures and understood relations have   By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth    The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49951]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least 36. I just hope my brother knows the assistant pro here like he reckons he does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31645]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least 36. I just hope my brother knows the assistant pro here like he reckons he does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children need encouragement. If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children need encouragement. If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must adopt loathsome diseases for our familiar associates, or we shall never be thoroughly acquainted with their nature and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38357]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must adopt loathsome diseases for our familiar associates, or we shall never be thoroughly acquainted with their nature and dispositions; we must risk, nay even injure, our own health in order to be able to preserve or restore that of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He comes not in my books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48624]]></link><description><![CDATA[He comes not in my books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We continue to demand that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia get immediate access to Kosovo, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41092]]></link><description><![CDATA[We continue to demand that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia get immediate access to Kosovo,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1880]]></link><description><![CDATA[To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let it alone. Let it pass by. [Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let it alone. Let it pass by. [Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27051]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit is incompatible with understanding ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit is incompatible with understanding]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1920]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a great relief. The guys stayed in the program and stood through my hard times. There is a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39669]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a great relief. The guys stayed in the program and stood through my hard times. There is a lot of satisfaction knowing that we made it through the hard times without me as head coach and that everything is OK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  There is a misplaced sense of loyalty which makes many Christians feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  There is a misplaced sense of loyalty which makes many Christians feel reluctant to come out in open opposition to anything that calls itself by the same name, or uses words like "God" and "Christ"; even Christians who in practice dislike superstition as much as I do still often treat it as a minor aberration to be hushed up rather than a radical perversion to be denounced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65308]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out of that. There are many girls who immediately have a top model career, and there are lots of models who are doing things that aren't as exciting as doing big campaigns and beautiful magazines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54688]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55552]]></link><description><![CDATA[If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is someone who is astonished by everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25281]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An architect is the drawer of dreams ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3006]]></link><description><![CDATA[An architect is the drawer of dreams]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60948]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24358]]></link><description><![CDATA[To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves  And, heedless of censorious eyes,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12805]]></link><description><![CDATA[See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves  And, heedless of censorious eyes,   Pursue their unpolluted joys:    No fears of future want molest     The downy quiet of their nest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With ravish'd ears The monarch hears,  Assumes the god,   Affects to nod,    And seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17747]]></link><description><![CDATA[With ravish'd ears The monarch hears,  Assumes the god,   Affects to nod,    And seems to shake the spheres.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if.."; And then do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if.."; And then do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66257]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50632]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discipline yourself, and others won't need to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NetBSD/sparc: 100% SpF (Solaris protection Factor) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57116]]></link><description><![CDATA[NetBSD/sparc: 100% SpF (Solaris protection Factor)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51393]]></link><description><![CDATA[That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64334]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. (from theSufis). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21602]]></link><description><![CDATA[How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. (from theSufis).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you select a spinner on a (pitch) that helps spin, you expect a little bit more than that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42700]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you select a spinner on a (pitch) that helps spin, you expect a little bit more than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3145]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64545]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories,  But the eternal substance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories,  But the eternal substance of his greatness,--   To which I leave him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail polling day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37527]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail polling day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time Bomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time Bomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33191</guid></item></channel></rss>