<?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[That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12422]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast Fits a dull fighter and a keen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55894]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/962]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Mahfouz.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55294]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake;  For all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake;  For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man   Is blackened--Man's forgiveness give and take!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born for success, he seemed With grace to win, with heart to hold,  With shining gifts that took all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born for success, he seemed With grace to win, with heart to hold,  With shining gifts that took all eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18297]]></link><description><![CDATA[You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fault is sooner found than mended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44199]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fault is sooner found than mended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3376]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?” ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65651]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?”]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12746]]></link><description><![CDATA[He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it a world to hide virtues in? -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it a world to hide virtues in? -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our health will have a lot to do with our success down the stretch. If we continue to work hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our health will have a lot to do with our success down the stretch. If we continue to work hard and get healthy, we will be just fine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are happy to be on track with our targets. As we continue to improve efficiency and implement de-bottlenecking, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30773]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are happy to be on track with our targets. As we continue to improve efficiency and implement de-bottlenecking, we are confident that we will be able to achieve our production forecasts for the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11949]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you want to see. I want to knit you a sweater. I want to write you a love letter. I want to make you feel better. I want to make you feel free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think  The nightingale, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think  The nightingale, if she should sing by day   When every goose is cackling, would be thought    No better a musician than the wren.     How many thing by season seasoned are      To their right praise and true perfection!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masters, spread yourselves. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Masters, spread yourselves. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30244]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the operating results are disappointing, we made significant progress toward executing our strategic plans during the quarter, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35758]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the operating results are disappointing, we made significant progress toward executing our strategic plans during the quarter,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the crude cry which we have so often heard during the war years: "If there is a God, why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7397]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the crude cry which we have so often heard during the war years: "If there is a God, why doesn't He stop Hitler?", to the unspoken questioning in many a Christian heart when a devoted servant of Christ dies from accident or disease at what seems to us a most inopportune moment, there is this universal longing for God to intervene, to show His hand, to vindicate His purpose. I do not pretend to understand the ways of God any more than the next man; but it is surely more fitting as well as more sensible for us to study what God does do and what He does not do as He works in and through the complex fabric of this disintegrated world, than to postulate what we think God ought to do and then feel demoralized and bitterly disappointed because He fails to fulfil what we expect of Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24216]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can't give us any word ? alive, or what ? but we are hoping he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40941]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can't give us any word ? alive, or what ? but we are hoping he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54793]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist   But if the holy prophets had scruples against separating themselves from the church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist   But if the holy prophets had scruples against separating themselves from the church because of many great misdeeds, not of one man or another but of almost all the people, we claim too much for ourselves if we dare withdraw at once from the communion of the church just because the morals of all do not meet our standard, or even square with the profession of Christian faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63876]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis strange the miser should his cares employ To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;  Is it less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42744]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis strange the miser should his cares employ To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;  Is it less strange the prodigal should waste   His wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulnesspossesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulnesspossesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us arepossessed by our possessions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is what gets lost in translation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is what gets lost in translation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54949]]></link><description><![CDATA[No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And prate and preach about what others prove, As if the world and they were hand and glove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20222]]></link><description><![CDATA[And prate and preach about what others prove, As if the world and they were hand and glove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looks like a workable compromise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29354]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looks like a workable compromise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53887]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in the work, not with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in the work, not with the hope of making a paradise (of the earth), but simply to make it more tolerable -- not to diminish the opposition between this world and the Kingdom of God, but simply to modify the opposition between the disorder of this world and the order of preservation that God wants it to have -- not to bring in the Kingdom of God, but so that the Gospel might be proclaimed in order that all men might truly hear the good news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a source of dismay and consternation to all of us to figure out how they were really going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31099]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a source of dismay and consternation to all of us to figure out how they were really going to determine that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! happy are the apples when the south winds blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! happy are the apples when the south winds blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wealth is the product of labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23916]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wealth is the product of labor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23916</guid></item></channel></rss>