<?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 rational individualist is not the enemy of benevolence or civility, but their truest exemplar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rational individualist is not the enemy of benevolence or civility, but their truest exemplar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They simply don't want a recession. It's an insurance policy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37051]]></link><description><![CDATA[They simply don't want a recession. It's an insurance policy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of studying for finals, what about just going to the Bahamas and catching some rays? Maybe you'll flunk, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of studying for finals, what about just going to the Bahamas and catching some rays? Maybe you'll flunk, but you might have flunked anyway; that's my point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart. Sometimes you lose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart. Sometimes you lose, but you're gonna win if you just hang in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20324]]></link><description><![CDATA[…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be illegal to apply this proposed definition to any federal contract. The minority small business community is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28540]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be illegal to apply this proposed definition to any federal contract. The minority small business community is not well served by a resolution that flies in the face of existing laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16550]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26814]]></link><description><![CDATA[And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3316]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sumer is y cumen in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sumer is y cumen in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics governs everything we do - the games we play, the way we play them, who we play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics governs everything we do - the games we play, the way we play them, who we play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[worked together as effectively as the terrorists do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40149]]></link><description><![CDATA[worked together as effectively as the terrorists do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62960]]></link><description><![CDATA[No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43887]]></link><description><![CDATA[A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary occasion to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort of infinity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now there is no sense of urgency and no accountability. When we tell people that they are planning for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now there is no sense of urgency and no accountability. When we tell people that they are planning for the evacuation of only 20 percent of the people, they sign the petition right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a true man, and Christ was a true man. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8102]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a true man, and Christ was a true man. His prayer in Gethsemane, his sweat of blood, show that the preceding anxiety is a part of human affliction, which we must try to accept with some sort of submission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been expecting this system to weaken for the last few days, but the system has not weakened. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40853]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been expecting this system to weaken for the last few days, but the system has not weakened. I cannot speculate about it because we don't know why.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12135]]></link><description><![CDATA[His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56789]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative symbol of its mentality- the projection of its conflicts, prejudice and specific ways of double-think onto the graceful sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always the people that know you the least, that judge you the most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63346]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always the people that know you the least, that judge you the most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should do whatever we can. If you can donate 5 cents, $1,000 or $100,000, we appreciate it. Or, at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38121]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should do whatever we can. If you can donate 5 cents, $1,000 or $100,000, we appreciate it. Or, at least, put them into your prayers,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24313]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26696]]></link><description><![CDATA[I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The balance of nature is reached when heating the house costs as much as going south for the winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The balance of nature is reached when heating the house costs as much as going south for the winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what you know best; if you're a runner, run, if you're a bell, ring ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what you know best; if you're a runner, run, if you're a bell, ring]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. -King Henry VI. Part III. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55991]]></link><description><![CDATA[And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no index so sure as the voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60941]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no index so sure as the voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I suppose I can give your career a bit of a leg-up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I suppose I can give your career a bit of a leg-up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody dies. Not everybody ever really lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody dies. Not everybody ever really lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trapeze High Club. It's the best way to get high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trapeze High Club. It's the best way to get high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're going to have nights where the ball doesn't go in the basket, but if you're going to win a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37920]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're going to have nights where the ball doesn't go in the basket, but if you're going to win a championship, you've got to be solid, tough and physical defensively and I don't think we were that, especially in the last 10 minutes of that game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16963]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -Edgar Watson Howe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35054]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a breakup fee, or lower purchase price. Neither company has a strong interest in seeing this resolved in the court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11327]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Considering the flurry of activity we've seen over the last few years, it's likely that those who made their purchases ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Considering the flurry of activity we've seen over the last few years, it's likely that those who made their purchases prefer to stay put and perhaps lock in their mortgages while interest rates remain affordable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17887]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22181]]></link><description><![CDATA[America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22181</guid></item></channel></rss>