<?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[Before God can deliver us from ourselves, we must undeceive ourselves.” ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before God can deliver us from ourselves, we must undeceive ourselves.”]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13656]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People use not just personal computers, but telephones, televisions, wireless and other devices with this technology so that minutes will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42518]]></link><description><![CDATA[People use not just personal computers, but telephones, televisions, wireless and other devices with this technology so that minutes will migrate over time. We really don't see a mass substitution or a great big cliff ahead of us, but rather that people will use this [Net2Phone applications] in conjunction with activities that they are performing in the Internet portal space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the Fed is telling us here is that they are not of the mind to put so much tightness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34708]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the Fed is telling us here is that they are not of the mind to put so much tightness on the economy as to jeopardize modest growth in the year ahead, and the market is taking great delight in that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rain forest has spent a lot of money and done extensive research on Johnson County and the Corridor. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rain forest has spent a lot of money and done extensive research on Johnson County and the Corridor. If you were not going to upset the whole flow of your deal, you choose somewhere nearby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man hears one word and understands two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man hears one word and understands two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satisfy a few to please many is bad. [Ger., Mach' es Wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satisfy a few to please many is bad. [Ger., Mach' es Wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9107]]></link><description><![CDATA[A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea's and common ideals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56939]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62231]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole Hollywood spin machine works together to create images that are impossible for any of us to live up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole Hollywood spin machine works together to create images that are impossible for any of us to live up to. They purposefully set us up to admire and even covet something we can never have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went and took it to the label, and they loved it, so we put it on the record. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went and took it to the label, and they loved it, so we put it on the record.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23913]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a fun question. A different way of looking at the extent people trust each other is that question. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39925]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a fun question. A different way of looking at the extent people trust each other is that question. Again, that's normative behavior. I know growing up we never had our door locked. That has changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think anegative thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21155]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think anegative thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is nothing but Discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is nothing but Discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place;  Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10733]]></link><description><![CDATA[A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place;  Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools,   Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65508]]></link><description><![CDATA[We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11446]]></link><description><![CDATA[For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23467]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness is a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness is a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once they got to her house, he asked to come in and use the bathroom. She allowed him to come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once they got to her house, he asked to come in and use the bathroom. She allowed him to come in the house and once they were in the house, he reached over and grabbed her breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is, as it were, a second self. [Lat., Amicus est tanquam alter idem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16768]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is, as it were, a second self. [Lat., Amicus est tanquam alter idem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be in the company, you not only have to be an incredible performer, but you have to be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35502]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be in the company, you not only have to be an incredible performer, but you have to be able to-and like to-teach kids.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One foole makes a hundred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49690]]></link><description><![CDATA[One foole makes a hundred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid looking in a mirror, because I bet that will really throw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11780]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid looking in a mirror, because I bet that will really throw you into a panic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are often saved from crime by the disgrace of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50379]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are often saved from crime by the disgrace of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The step taken (by the EU) was not sufficient to start negotiation in other sectors, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31249]]></link><description><![CDATA[The step taken (by the EU) was not sufficient to start negotiation in other sectors,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead;  They followed still his crooked way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4780]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead;  They followed still his crooked way   And lost a hundred years a day;    For thus such reverence is lent     To well established precedent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man thinks, God directs. [Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man thinks, God directs. [Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9292]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In the  ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam  Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41327]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In the  ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam  Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me Ali ... Three of the prayer leaders were  martyred during the Iran-Iraq war [of the 1980s].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, they're selling the foundation to pay for the mortgage. These lands really belong to future generations and shouldn't be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, they're selling the foundation to pay for the mortgage. These lands really belong to future generations and shouldn't be sold to the highest bidder. There's no reason why the world's biggest economic power needs to sell parkland to make ends meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53990]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age--I missed it coming and going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53990</guid></item></channel></rss>