<?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 critical thing is that no two situations are alike. Depending on where you are in Africa, the Middle East ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The critical thing is that no two situations are alike. Depending on where you are in Africa, the Middle East or Asia, laws and medical care are very different. We strive to make sure that travelers have the same information we as diplomats have. Americans and Western interests are targets, and Americans should be aware of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity is the sin of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity is the sin of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16746]]></link><description><![CDATA[When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells!  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!   How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells!  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!   How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,    In the icy air of night,     While the stars that oversprinkle      All the Heavens seem to twinkle       With a crystalline delight:        Keeping time, time, time,         In a sort of Runic rhyme          To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells           From the bells, bells, bells, bells,            Bells, bells, bells--             From the jingling and the tingling of the bells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I make presents to the mother, but think of the daughter. [Ger., Der Mutter schenk' ich,  Die Tochter denk' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I make presents to the mother, but think of the daughter. [Ger., Der Mutter schenk' ich,  Die Tochter denk' ich.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27640]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue of childhood is extremely complicated, the issue of comics is extremely complicated. And the intersection of the two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue of childhood is extremely complicated, the issue of comics is extremely complicated. And the intersection of the two is extremely, extremely complicated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a good Milan. We played well after being only partially convincing in previous games. We wasted a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a good Milan. We played well after being only partially convincing in previous games. We wasted a lot of chances and one has to say that Pagliuca was really good today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't return a favor, pass it on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22007]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't return a favor, pass it on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The forecasts for the second-half of the year for the most part seem to support a recovery, but to some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34039]]></link><description><![CDATA[The forecasts for the second-half of the year for the most part seem to support a recovery, but to some extent, that's already priced into the market, so you're not seeing that much stock reaction. There's not a lot of conviction and some people will take profits. But I think there will continue to be a moderately upwards bias for the remainder of the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59554]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We certainly appreciate our working relationship with the mayor and his office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29263]]></link><description><![CDATA[We certainly appreciate our working relationship with the mayor and his office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54859]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65015]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know how to win victory, Hannibal, you do not how to use it [Lat., Vincere scis, Hannibal; victoria uti ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60584]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know how to win victory, Hannibal, you do not how to use it [Lat., Vincere scis, Hannibal; victoria uti nescis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44490]]></link><description><![CDATA[A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given all he had or ever might have to hold her warm in his arms, both of them wrapped in one blanket, and sleep. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As well as providing a more appropriate and reliable service than the loco-hauled trains that have recently worked the route, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33840]]></link><description><![CDATA[As well as providing a more appropriate and reliable service than the loco-hauled trains that have recently worked the route, [the trains] will benefit from a refurbishment over the next 12 months to increase the number of seats and provide a more comfortable environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here,  Blest fishers were; and fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16099]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here,  Blest fishers were; and fish the last   Food was, that He on earth did taste:    I therefore strive to follow those,     Whom He to follow Him hath chose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you completely trust a person without any doubt, you'll automatically get one of two results - a person for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62957]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you completely trust a person without any doubt, you'll automatically get one of two results - a person for life or a lesson for life!!!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To think is to practice brain chemistry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22453]]></link><description><![CDATA[To think is to practice brain chemistry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13447]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66744]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult. [Ger., Kein Heiligthum heisst uns den Schimpf ertragen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22843]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult. [Ger., Kein Heiligthum heisst uns den Schimpf ertragen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is anact of choice and therefore sacred, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21975]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is anact of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance livedconsciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in thecreation of a better world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who eates his cock alone must saddle his horse alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who eates his cock alone must saddle his horse alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a remedy for everything except death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a remedy for everything except death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a precautionary measure. It adds another layer of service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34177]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a precautionary measure. It adds another layer of service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2933]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  There is a misplaced sense of loyalty which makes many Christians feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  There is a misplaced sense of loyalty which makes many Christians feel reluctant to come out in open opposition to anything that calls itself by the same name, or uses words like "God" and "Christ"; even Christians who in practice dislike superstition as much as I do still often treat it as a minor aberration to be hushed up rather than a radical perversion to be denounced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without tact you can learn nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without tact you can learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63980]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast;  Custards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast;  Custards for supper, and an endless host   Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies,    And other such ladylike luxuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beside Jesus, the whole lot of us are so contemptible... But God is like Jesus, and like Jesus, He will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beside Jesus, the whole lot of us are so contemptible... But God is like Jesus, and like Jesus, He will not give up until we, too, are like Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eye and Religion can beare no jesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49839]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more blessed to give than to receive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5743]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more blessed to give than to receive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really hard to find corners with that physical nature to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34088]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really hard to find corners with that physical nature to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has not cared that we should anywhere have assurance of His very words; and that not merely, perhaps, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8210]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has not cared that we should anywhere have assurance of His very words; and that not merely, perhaps, because of the tendency in His children to word-worship, false logic, and corruption of the truth, but because He would not have them oppressed by words, seeing that words, being human, and therefore but partially capable, could not absolutely contain or express what the Lord meant, and that even He must depend for being understood upon the spirit of His disciple. Seeing that it could not give life, the letter should not be throned with power to kill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enchanted April' is edgy, and will talk to an older audience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enchanted April' is edgy, and will talk to an older audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39230</guid></item></channel></rss>