<?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 power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2482]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27440]]></link><description><![CDATA[My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the sun shine in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the sun shine in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. [Fr., Une louange en grec est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24009]]></link><description><![CDATA[A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. [Fr., Une louange en grec est d'une merveilleuse efficace a la tete d'un livre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64772]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66223]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I call him the unpolished diamond. We polished him off today and he was really shining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I call him the unpolished diamond. We polished him off today and he was really shining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other villages think we are millionaires, but we are not. We are still living at poverty level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other villages think we are millionaires, but we are not. We are still living at poverty level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45680]]></link><description><![CDATA[We remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to recognize, in the relational rigidities of many chapel-going people, the "negative reflex actions" of a character ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6712]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to recognize, in the relational rigidities of many chapel-going people, the "negative reflex actions" of a character structure which has survived the destruction of its intellectual and moral foundations. But equally, no one can go far in the Free Churches without lighting upon the new or newish cult of "sincerity as an end in itself" -- the first refuge of minds too lazy to rebuild their intellectual foundations -- and the sentimental distrust of "orthodoxy" and "authority", in theological contexts at least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40294]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5081]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing safe in religion, except in such a course of behaviour that leaves nothing for corrupt nature to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7008]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing safe in religion, except in such a course of behaviour that leaves nothing for corrupt nature to feed or live upon; which can only then be done when every degree of perfection we aim at is a degree of death to the passions of the natural man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23968]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will. -Ingrid Bengis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just frees you to be more honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39264]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just frees you to be more honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45407]]></link><description><![CDATA[I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4227]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up, ... As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32898]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up, ... As soon as you drift out of Dade County you find that the Alice in Wonderland world ends at the Dade-Broward line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66194]]></link><description><![CDATA[However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worked so hard for that first kissAnd a heart don’t forget something like thatLike an old photographTime can make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worked so hard for that first kissAnd a heart don’t forget something like thatLike an old photographTime can make a feeling fadeBut the memory of a first loveNever fades away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66755]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will name no country, but Germany is ready to move on the budget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29948]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will name no country, but Germany is ready to move on the budget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The solitary, silent, solemn scene, Where Caesars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie,  Blended in dust together; where the slave  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The solitary, silent, solemn scene, Where Caesars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie,  Blended in dust together; where the slave   Rests from his labors; where th' insulting proud    Resigns his powers; the miser drops his hoard:     Where human folly sleeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24634]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can afford to live anywhere else and I choose to stay here, and I am now raising my newborn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can afford to live anywhere else and I choose to stay here, and I am now raising my newborn child here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to astate of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22093]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to astate of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions ofincompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability tocreate. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completiondate, then do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54568]]></link><description><![CDATA[When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53253]]></link><description><![CDATA[We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only strengthen our resolve. To be successful there is no other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11846]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to talk with people who care about things that matter thatwill make a life-changing difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to talk with people who care about things that matter thatwill make a life-changing difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21929</guid></item></channel></rss>