<?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[We hope that in the next few hours, or thereabouts, we will get more concrete information about these hostages, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34273]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that in the next few hours, or thereabouts, we will get more concrete information about these hostages,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11987]]></link><description><![CDATA[By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46101]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'drather be anywhere else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22696]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'drather be anywhere else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind. And, while they captivate, inform the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind. And, while they captivate, inform the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27378]]></link><description><![CDATA[He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will look at harvest levels after this dig, and there should be more digging opportunities in the coming months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32511]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will look at harvest levels after this dig, and there should be more digging opportunities in the coming months on some beaches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/211]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are respectable only as they respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are respectable only as they respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61003]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endure the present, and watch for better things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endure the present, and watch for better things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They did not have to kill him. They had no right shooting at that car. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42027]]></link><description><![CDATA[They did not have to kill him. They had no right shooting at that car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49992]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fascism is a religious concept ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fascism is a religious concept]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2449]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless the differences within the transitional federal institutions are addressed, the current political impasse could grow into deeper divisions and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless the differences within the transitional federal institutions are addressed, the current political impasse could grow into deeper divisions and undermine the very institutions that the people of Somalia so ardently desire and the international community and the United Nations are willing to support,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt like we executed our offense pretty well in the first half and did just enough to keep the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt like we executed our offense pretty well in the first half and did just enough to keep the lead comfortable in the second half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of us (developers) would be doing what we're doing here if it weren't for Betty Hunter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37465]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of us (developers) would be doing what we're doing here if it weren't for Betty Hunter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66219]]></link><description><![CDATA[I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10092]]></link><description><![CDATA[They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41527]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television networks don't deliver the audiences that they did a year ago or five years ago and yet (ad) prices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television networks don't deliver the audiences that they did a year ago or five years ago and yet (ad) prices continue to go up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/379]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told them not to give the game away. I told them that if they wanted to win, go out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40566]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told them not to give the game away. I told them that if they wanted to win, go out and take and not give anything away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,  I better brook than flourishing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18534]]></link><description><![CDATA[How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,  I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18534</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[Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reliance to be placed on appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50517]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. [Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11523]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. [Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63791</guid></item></channel></rss>