<?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 great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11401]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is awesome. Everybody gets excited about this. It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37009]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is awesome. Everybody gets excited about this. It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9185]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[luck is what happens , when the preparation meets the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/397]]></link><description><![CDATA[luck is what happens , when the preparation meets the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have become tools of their tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have become tools of their tools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing certain except the unforeseen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14524]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing certain except the unforeseen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now give me my camel back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now give me my camel back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And hold up to the sun my little taper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3520]]></link><description><![CDATA[And hold up to the sun my little taper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47075]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59768]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take the least care of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4309]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take the least care of all to acquire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35583]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism--how intensely I despise them! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45852]]></link><description><![CDATA[This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism--how intensely I despise them!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/499]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64818]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immortality - a fate worse than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immortality - a fate worse than death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the key word here was persistency. We just kept putting pressure on them, believed in our system and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the key word here was persistency. We just kept putting pressure on them, believed in our system and sooner or later, we would get the breaks to win the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/725]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of Apple's advertising is consistently above average. And more often than not, it's world class. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of Apple's advertising is consistently above average. And more often than not, it's world class.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science, it doesn't matter if you're wrong, as long as you're not stupid. In business, it doesn't matter if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14182]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science, it doesn't matter if you're wrong, as long as you're not stupid. In business, it doesn't matter if you're stupid, so long as you're not wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness induces caprice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness induces caprice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Present-moment living, getting in touch with your "now," isat the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Present-moment living, getting in touch with your "now," isat the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really isno other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is justanother present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, youcannot live it until it does appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43399]]></link><description><![CDATA[No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything one thing is impossible: rationality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63607]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56768]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He came back nicely. He doesn't throw as hard as Kurtis, but he throws the ball over the plate, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34550]]></link><description><![CDATA[He came back nicely. He doesn't throw as hard as Kurtis, but he throws the ball over the plate, he changes speeds, he works quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11617]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended it to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended it to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewherenearby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewherenearby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear that from a lack of presentation of the government's case on this issue, that they feel that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42212]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear that from a lack of presentation of the government's case on this issue, that they feel that he will be tortured. But for political reasons, they don't want to come right out and say that they will go for deferral. They will leave it up to the judge to decide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66154]]></link><description><![CDATA[She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes only one other person to say it's so—one other point ofreality—to make something real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21836]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes only one other person to say it's so—one other point ofreality—to make something real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13679]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our mayor, who was very busy last year learning how to be a mayor, this year actually took a wonderful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our mayor, who was very busy last year learning how to be a mayor, this year actually took a wonderful leadership role, got into the budget with both feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the conviction persists - though history has shown it to be a hallucination - that all the questions that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52105]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the conviction persists - though history has shown it to be a hallucination - that all the questions that the human mind has asked are questions that can be answered in terms of the alternatives that the questions themselves present. But in fact intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume - an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them. Old questions are solved by disappearing, evaporating, while new questions corresponding to the changed attitude of endeavor and preference take their place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4491]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw the script, ... I called them that night. I liked it that much. I love this character, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32623]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw the script, ... I called them that night. I liked it that much. I love this character, I think he's loaded with love. This is a blustering kind of guy who wears his heart on his sleeve. He tells the truth and that's why I love him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you start getting involved in bond math it gets complicated. (But) if you don't understand how it works you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42197]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you start getting involved in bond math it gets complicated. (But) if you don't understand how it works you should do your homework.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10067</guid></item></channel></rss>