<?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[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42045]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats need it; we don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats need it; we don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old!  Of right choice food are his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old!  Of right choice food are his meals I ween,   In his cell so lone and cold.    . . . .     Creeping where no life is seen,      A rare old plant is the ivy green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50047]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flag of our Union forever! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flag of our Union forever!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65605]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK banks provide a crucial service to the community and our economic security depends on them. Amicus is calling on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42007]]></link><description><![CDATA[UK banks provide a crucial service to the community and our economic security depends on them. Amicus is calling on National Australia to reverse this decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life--like being blown out as one blows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1255]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life--like being blown out as one blows out a light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he that once is good, is ever great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18262]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he that once is good, is ever great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee;  Betwixt the stirrop and the ground,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23529]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee;  Betwixt the stirrop and the ground,   Mercy I askt, mercy I found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56268]]></link><description><![CDATA[But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers ... We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13343]]></link><description><![CDATA[I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers ... We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of us bears his own Hell ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of us bears his own Hell]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18105]]></link><description><![CDATA[How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57321]]></link><description><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, if you can get 25 percent guys in a class, you're doing great. I think it's because there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, if you can get 25 percent guys in a class, you're doing great. I think it's because there are so many other options.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debate is the death of conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debate is the death of conversation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people see things and ask Why?I dream things which never were and askWhy not? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people see things and ask Why?I dream things which never were and askWhy not?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women are bitches except my mother - not trusting her but respecting her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61939]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women are bitches except my mother - not trusting her but respecting her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24610]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manfred: Let's get something straight, ok? There's no "we". There never was a "we". In fact, without "me", it wouldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manfred: Let's get something straight, ok? There's no "we". There never was a "we". In fact, without "me", it wouldn't even be a "you".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17731]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think I've had a team that never leveled off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34220]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think I've had a team that never leveled off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deeper the waters are, the more still they run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58743]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses?  Nature, oppress'd and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56607]]></link><description><![CDATA[What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses?  Nature, oppress'd and harrass'd out with care,   Sinks down to rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame  A ladder, if we will but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame  A ladder, if we will but tread   Beneath our feet each deed of shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25068]]></link><description><![CDATA[A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Who hates his neighbor has not the rights of a child." And not only has he no rights as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8070]]></link><description><![CDATA["Who hates his neighbor has not the rights of a child." And not only has he no rights as a child, he has no "father". God is not my father in particular, or any man's father (horrible presumption and madness!); no, He is only father in the sense of father of all, and consequently only my father in so far as He is the father of all. When I hate someone or deny God is his father, it is not he who loses, but I: for then I have no father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't sell it directly to them. Hopefully they will be the only bidder and it will be pretty clean, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39701]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't sell it directly to them. Hopefully they will be the only bidder and it will be pretty clean, but if there is another bidder we will have to make a decision then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems the storm is not going to be as strong as we feared and that was enough to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38864]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems the storm is not going to be as strong as we feared and that was enough to take some of the selling pressure off stocks today. We are not likely to see real stock-buying this afternoon as most investors still want to see what happens with the storm during the weekend, but if damage is minimal, we might be bound for a rally on Monday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, where you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36931]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, where you have to defend every idea, ... I am a robber of ideas, but for there to be ideas, you have to have discussion. If everyone takes my word for the truth, you can't do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not good a sleping hound to wake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56628]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not good a sleping hound to wake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true poem is the poet's mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46757]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true poem is the poet's mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had offers from major labels in the past but we skipped over them because we knew it was too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30539]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had offers from major labels in the past but we skipped over them because we knew it was too early. We wanted to get the most out of every phase, like putting out a record on an independent label and playing small clubs, then doing bigger records and bigger tours. I think that just made us better prepared for this whole experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59876</guid></item></channel></rss>