<?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[It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11611]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who moves not forward, goes backward ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10259]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who moves not forward, goes backward]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5732</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[He that tells a secret is anothers servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49403]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that tells a secret is anothers servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53504]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, providence, - what are they? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, providence, - what are they?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is only as good as what he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25876]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is only as good as what he loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25130]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos - they're rebellious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos - they're rebellious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give. -Damien Hess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10078]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17683]]></link><description><![CDATA[He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes not looking as good as the ones in the shops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he said that, I believed him, that he didn't send me here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36311]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he said that, I believed him, that he didn't send me here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see levels below 17,500 as very attractive for bargain-hunting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see levels below 17,500 as very attractive for bargain-hunting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rapid poverty reduction requires not only high rates of economic growth but also that the benefits of this growth be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rapid poverty reduction requires not only high rates of economic growth but also that the benefits of this growth be distributed more equitably.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14117]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57880]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44754]]></link><description><![CDATA[We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why not just walk over to Vanguard and buy the S&P 500 index fund? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why not just walk over to Vanguard and buy the S&P 500 index fund?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27875]]></link><description><![CDATA[No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet.  Answers sometimes are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet.  Answers sometimes are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're scared, buy a big dog and tie it around your waist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34635]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're scared, buy a big dog and tie it around your waist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5128]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is a gift you give yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63535]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is a gift you give yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37936]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash and would I please help him do it, ... I thought, 'How is that a show?' And then I thought if I were to do this it would be far too weird and borderline sci-fi and he'd never want to do it. But his response was no, I love that idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right, ... And he goes about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right, ... And he goes about seeing that things turn out that way with, of course, a lot of people suffering along the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UPS now flies to more points in China than any other US airline, freight or passenger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32891]]></link><description><![CDATA[UPS now flies to more points in China than any other US airline, freight or passenger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11213]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18392]]></link><description><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger then the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself . . . by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15083]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How instinct varies in the grov'lling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine!  'Twixt that and reason what a nice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22828]]></link><description><![CDATA[How instinct varies in the grov'lling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine!  'Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier!   Forever sep'rate, yet forever near!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just felt we're stronger at linebacker than the front guys, so were going to a 3-4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33918]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just felt we're stronger at linebacker than the front guys, so were going to a 3-4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My angel,--his name is Freedom,-- Choose him to be your king;  He shall cut pathways east and west,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16680]]></link><description><![CDATA[My angel,--his name is Freedom,-- Choose him to be your king;  He shall cut pathways east and west,   And fend you with his wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62153</guid></item></channel></rss>