<?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 world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't getting anyone in front of her and she pretty much stops everything she sees and doesn't allow rebounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42631]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't getting anyone in front of her and she pretty much stops everything she sees and doesn't allow rebounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lay her in the earth, And from her fair and unpolluted flesh  May violets spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lay her in the earth, And from her fair and unpolluted flesh  May violets spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like manure: It's not worth anything unless you spread it around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like manure: It's not worth anything unless you spread it around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. [Lat., Nos fragili vastum ligno sulcavimus aequor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44005]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. [Lat., Nos fragili vastum ligno sulcavimus aequor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are injured and hurt emotionally,Not so much by other peopleor what they say and don't say,But by our own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22446]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are injured and hurt emotionally,Not so much by other peopleor what they say and don't say,But by our own attitudeand our own response.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4190]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scripture?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burroughs was a very political writer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burroughs was a very political writer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are still awaiting the results of the audit from the provinces which we have selected randomly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34835]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are still awaiting the results of the audit from the provinces which we have selected randomly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4692]]></link><description><![CDATA[To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If operating systems are weapons, Solaris is a world-war-two German railway gun with a cracked breech block. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57114]]></link><description><![CDATA[If operating systems are weapons, Solaris is a world-war-two German railway gun with a cracked breech block.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with; and, the laws you choose to obey]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10665]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,  Facti crimen habet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44130]]></link><description><![CDATA[A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to finish when I fold my hand and go up to the big poker game in the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28604]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to finish when I fold my hand and go up to the big poker game in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way -- by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coward threatens when he is safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coward threatens when he is safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a system that worked and we worked it, ... We'd go into a place and create a riot. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29289]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a system that worked and we worked it, ... We'd go into a place and create a riot. When you could keep them out of their chairs, that's when you knew you won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13947]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3806]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes. [Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes. [Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am your host. With robber's hands in my hospitable favors  You should not ruffle thus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19867]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am your host. With robber's hands in my hospitable favors  You should not ruffle thus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our focus is getting the power back to our customers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our focus is getting the power back to our customers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truly brave, When they behold the brave oppressed with odds,  Are touched with a desire to shield and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4844]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truly brave, When they behold the brave oppressed with odds,  Are touched with a desire to shield and save:--   A mixture of wild beasts and demi-gods    Are they--now furious as the sweeping wave,     Now moved with pity; even as sometimes nods      The rugged tree unto the summer wind,       Compassion breathes along the savage mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would I had some flowers o' th' spring that might Become your time of day, and yours, and yours, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would I had some flowers o' th' spring that might Become your time of day, and yours, and yours,  That wear upon your virgin branches yet   Your maidenheads growing. O, Proserpina,    For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall     From Dis's wagon; daffodils,      That come before the swallow dares, and take       The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,        But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes         Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses,          That die unmarried, ere they can behold           Bright Phoebus in his strength--a malady            Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and             The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,              The flower-de-luce being one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a lady who couldn't keep her legs together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37954]]></link><description><![CDATA[a lady who couldn't keep her legs together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanaticism is . . . overcompensation for doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanaticism is . . . overcompensation for doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14110]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of fishing is not angling, but catching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of fishing is not angling, but catching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50864]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must be stopped! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must be stopped!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53149</guid></item></channel></rss>