<?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[Make no judgments where you have no compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no judgments where you have no compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66467]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2431]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great art picks up where nature ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great art picks up where nature ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folks who have no vices have plaguey few virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folks who have no vices have plaguey few virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How lovely he appears! his little cheeks In their pure incarnation, vying with  The rose leaves strewn beneath them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3628]]></link><description><![CDATA[How lovely he appears! his little cheeks In their pure incarnation, vying with  The rose leaves strewn beneath them.   And his lips, too,    How beautifully parted! No; you shall not     Kiss him; at least not now; he will wake soon--      His hour of midday rest is nearly over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.'' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58189]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.'']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are our most valuable natural resource. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are our most valuable natural resource.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many American editors and publishers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive shortwave facilities scattered about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9075]]></link><description><![CDATA[A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive shortwave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get Peace you must work for Justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45921]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get Peace you must work for Justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farewell, remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farewell, remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12319]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's alienated most of the state; he's alienated most of the voters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33401]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's alienated most of the state; he's alienated most of the voters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk; He steps right onward, martial in his air,  His form and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57147]]></link><description><![CDATA[He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk; He steps right onward, martial in his air,  His form and movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;  The ornament ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56555]]></link><description><![CDATA[That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;  The ornament of beauty is suspect,   A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.    So thou be good, slander doth but approve     Thy worth the greater, being wooed of time;      For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love,       And thou present'st a pure unstained prime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes aretaken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22162]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes aretaken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. [Lat., Vitae poscaenia celant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. [Lat., Vitae poscaenia celant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,  And heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,  And heard thy everlasting yarn confess   The Pains and Penalties of Idleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/866]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The land is exceptionally beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The land is exceptionally beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41508]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the educated are free. -Epictetus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the educated are free. -Epictetus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13096]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54172]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the devout ones took the stance of spectator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the devout ones took the stance of spectator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light may come where all looks darkest, Hope hath life, when life seems o'er. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light may come where all looks darkest, Hope hath life, when life seems o'er.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52338]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43383]]></link><description><![CDATA[People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56786]]></link><description><![CDATA[The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before Johan Cruijff is going to make a mistake, he isn't making that mistake.making that mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before Johan Cruijff is going to make a mistake, he isn't making that mistake.making that mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once again the stock market will be the loser, especially as it already had tax disincentives compared to other countries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once again the stock market will be the loser, especially as it already had tax disincentives compared to other countries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I build confidence when I practice a variety of shots - hitting it high or low, working the ball. A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I build confidence when I practice a variety of shots - hitting it high or low, working the ball. A lot of golfers go to the range and just hit full shots. That doesn't build on-course confidence, because you won't always hit full shots out there. My confidence is built on knowing I can effectively work the ball in any circumstance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56616]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world as seen through the window of an insane asylum is the same world as seen from the window ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39649]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world as seen through the window of an insane asylum is the same world as seen from the window of a dentist's office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34976]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We adore chaos because we love to produce order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65446]]></link><description><![CDATA[We adore chaos because we love to produce order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In England three are sixty different religions, and only one sauce. [It., Il y en Angleterre soizante sectes religieuses differentes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13911]]></link><description><![CDATA[In England three are sixty different religions, and only one sauce. [It., Il y en Angleterre soizante sectes religieuses differentes, et une seule sauce.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunwands turn rain droplets into blackberry drupelets as enkindled okra seeds acknowledge heliocracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunwands turn rain droplets into blackberry drupelets as enkindled okra seeds acknowledge heliocracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pythagorean, as well as the Platonic philosophers, probably concurred in the fabrication of the Christian Trinity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38413]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Pythagorean, as well as the Platonic philosophers, probably concurred in the fabrication of the Christian Trinity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61470</guid></item></channel></rss>