<?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[Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, whitelight. It's God. No, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, whitelight. It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God. In a booming voice, He says: "THIS IS A SIGN. USE LINUX, THE FREE UNIX SYSTEM FOR THE 386."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25733]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were all astonished over this blockage. By the last two or three months they were telling me not even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30981]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were all astonished over this blockage. By the last two or three months they were telling me not even to go for a walk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to develop the female phenotype; the mammalian male ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56841]]></link><description><![CDATA[...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to develop the female phenotype; the mammalian male is essentially a female that has been exposed to androgenic steroid hormones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gloriously drunk, obey the important call. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one really won in this constitution. It left almost everything vague. Everyone played to a tie but we don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38953]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one really won in this constitution. It left almost everything vague. Everyone played to a tie but we don't know how the ties are going to be resolved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police were told the group was armed and they had made political demands, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Police were told the group was armed and they had made political demands,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A manufacturing district . . . sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighborhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A manufacturing district . . . sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighborhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems almost within reach. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. De Tocqueville in his researches into the state of society in France before the revolution was struck by the discovery that "in no one of the periods which have followed the Revolution of 1789 has the national prosperity of France augmented more rapidly than it did in the twenty years preceding that event." He is forced to conclude that "the French found their position the more intolerable the better it became.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17364]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia wants to play mediator between the West and Islamic world. But that won't bring any good because Russia is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Russia wants to play mediator between the West and Islamic world. But that won't bring any good because Russia is more vulnerable to Islam than the West.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15101]]></link><description><![CDATA[After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kallis is a methodical run machine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kallis is a methodical run machine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26576]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64716]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it tolife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22348]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it tolife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slackers aren't stupid, they are just too lazy to do anything about their situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slackers aren't stupid, they are just too lazy to do anything about their situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine, a bit of unscheduled plea]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12906]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10620]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the love of God, folks, don't do this at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/949]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the love of God, folks, don't do this at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to be a winner, hang around with winners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1164]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to be a winner, hang around with winners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3431]]></link><description><![CDATA[In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62539]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's become synonymous with mainstream rock and pop music lovers who perceive it as the most audience-friendly festival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33105]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's become synonymous with mainstream rock and pop music lovers who perceive it as the most audience-friendly festival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Sane man will dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11029]]></link><description><![CDATA[No Sane man will dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything can be improved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything can be improved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They thought it was outrageous. Then they started looking into it themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32331]]></link><description><![CDATA[They thought it was outrageous. Then they started looking into it themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daniel deserves all the credit. We had several scoring opportunities to break the game open. We didn't do it but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daniel deserves all the credit. We had several scoring opportunities to break the game open. We didn't do it but our pitching staff came through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse are leading contributors to preventable death in the United States. By early adulthood, a large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse are leading contributors to preventable death in the United States. By early adulthood, a large proportion of Americans smoke, are overweight, and drink alcohol to excess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25482]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is past and only a better Future can change that... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is past and only a better Future can change that...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58105]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28162]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15367]]></link><description><![CDATA[What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grat talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grat talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose firm is equal to the deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose firm is equal to the deed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50343</guid></item></channel></rss>