<?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 secret is out. There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret is out. There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44089]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is this midget, who is not fit to lace Beckham's boots? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is this midget, who is not fit to lace Beckham's boots?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we must take the current when it serves; Or lose our ventures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51292]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we must take the current when it serves; Or lose our ventures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The anti-terrorism laws are going to create a legal nightmare for the Government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The anti-terrorism laws are going to create a legal nightmare for the Government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a program that's working. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28678]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a program that's working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits  And rank me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits  And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53604]]></link><description><![CDATA[No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41189]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man,  And wooes him to be wise? nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man,  And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain;   This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,    And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to think about whether you love someone or not then the answer is no. When you love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10114]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to think about whether you love someone or not then the answer is no. When you love someone you just know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11996]]></link><description><![CDATA[This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19496]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;  Others aver, that he to Handel   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;  Others aver, that he to Handel   Is scarcely fit to hold a Candle:    Strange all this difference should be,     'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars! - Caliban in the Coal Mines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children. . -Ancient Proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22796]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children. . -Ancient Proverb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You become a member, and you own a piece of us. We offer basically all the services of a bank ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32115]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become a member, and you own a piece of us. We offer basically all the services of a bank ... and credit unions are known for being friendlier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pig bought on credit is forever grunting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10607]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pig bought on credit is forever grunting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16651]]></link><description><![CDATA[When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11638]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hath the pearl less whiteness Because of its birth?  Hath the violet less brightness   For growing near ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hath the pearl less whiteness Because of its birth?  Hath the violet less brightness   For growing near earth?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was obviously a good week for us. Regardless of how the grind goes in January, these kids are much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35367]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was obviously a good week for us. Regardless of how the grind goes in January, these kids are much further along than anything I anticipated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who that has loved knows not the tender tale Which flowers reveal, when lips are coy to tell?   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who that has loved knows not the tender tale Which flowers reveal, when lips are coy to tell?   - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things like that don't bother me. Just one week ago, Paul said he wanted to play his whole career in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things like that don't bother me. Just one week ago, Paul said he wanted to play his whole career in one uniform. It's important for us to keep all our players in the right frame of mind, and it would be great if everyone felt good about everything for the whole year. But that's not the way the NBA season works. All I know is I talk to Paul and he tells me he wants to keep together and get better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end: and much study is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4535]]></link><description><![CDATA[And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end: and much study is a weariness of the flesh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23015]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inaction may be the biggest form of action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inaction may be the biggest form of action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June,  That to the sleeping woods all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4918]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June,  That to the sleeping woods all night   Singeth a quiet tune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54392]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49801]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Syria is trying to strengthen its hegemony in Lebanon by controlling more and more institutions, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Syria is trying to strengthen its hegemony in Lebanon by controlling more and more institutions,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failing yet gracious, Slow pacing, soon homing,  A patriarch that strolls   Through the tents of his children, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failing yet gracious, Slow pacing, soon homing,  A patriarch that strolls   Through the tents of his children,    The sun as he journeys     His round on the lower      Ascents of the blue,       Washes the roofs        And the hillsides with clarity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The angel answer'd, "Nay, said soul; go higher! To be deceived in your true heart's desire  Was bitterer than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The angel answer'd, "Nay, said soul; go higher! To be deceived in your true heart's desire  Was bitterer than a thousand years of fire!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real estate, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21308]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4829]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fox and the MonkeyA monkey once danced in an assembly of the Beasts, and so pleased them all by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1572]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fox and the MonkeyA monkey once danced in an assembly of the Beasts, and so pleased them all by his performance that they elected him their King. A Fox, envying him the honor, discovered a piece of meat lying in a trap, and leading the Monkey to the place where it was, said that she had found a store, but had not used it, she had kept it for him as treasure trove of his kingdom, and counseled him to lay hold of it. The Monkey approached carelessly and was caught in the trap; and on his accusing the Fox of purposely leading him into the snare, she replied, O Monkey, and are you, with such a mind as yours, going to be King over the Beasts?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1572</guid></item></channel></rss>