<?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[And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12652]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a close friend of the Transportation Minister and this makes my work easier, ... Otherwise my business would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a close friend of the Transportation Minister and this makes my work easier, ... Otherwise my business would have been much slower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the supply is tighter for new product than it was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31634]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the supply is tighter for new product than it was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53018]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's difficult to appreciate the value of others when your own self assessment is over valued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63220]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's difficult to appreciate the value of others when your own self assessment is over valued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs, And speak men what they can to him he'll answer  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51898]]></link><description><![CDATA[This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs, And speak men what they can to him he'll answer  With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,   Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14598]]></link><description><![CDATA[First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our necessities never equal our wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our necessities never equal our wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60183]]></link><description><![CDATA[In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think that day lost whose (low) descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done.  [Lat., Virtus sui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think that day lost whose (low) descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done.  [Lat., Virtus sui gloria.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/276]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some who, because the point is the limit and extreme of the line, the line of the plane, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17379]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some who, because the point is the limit and extreme of the line, the line of the plane, and the plane of the solid, think there must be real things of this sort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27271]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them,  Must first induce you to believe; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them,  Must first induce you to believe; whose strength   I will confirm with oath, which I doubt not    You'll give me leave to spare when you shall find     You need it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35765]]></link><description><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.'']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tried to get a broad representation of the student body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37745]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tried to get a broad representation of the student body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And last the Vice and Follies of the Age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60499]]></link><description><![CDATA[And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just so happy for them. I just love both of those kids. They gave such a great effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just so happy for them. I just love both of those kids. They gave such a great effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39310]]></link><description><![CDATA[So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64912]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls What triumphs shall be yours!  For all are happy and rich and great  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls What triumphs shall be yours!  For all are happy and rich and great   In that City of By-and-by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52852]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health,  The fit is strongest. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health,  The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave,   On their departure most of all show evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36267]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone says can't, that shows you what to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22481]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clean and wholesome side of the '80s we've already explored. Now we're going to the more rock-inspired, more decadent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36164]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clean and wholesome side of the '80s we've already explored. Now we're going to the more rock-inspired, more decadent - that whole new-wave look.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Occasionally, the chef gets creative and comes up with a new one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Occasionally, the chef gets creative and comes up with a new one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shyness is just egotism out of its depth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At land indeed Thou dost o'ercount me of my father's house:  But since the cuckoo builds not for himself, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10812]]></link><description><![CDATA[At land indeed Thou dost o'ercount me of my father's house:  But since the cuckoo builds not for himself,   Remain in't as thou mayst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like to like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like to like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5345]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster.  The far-fam'd sculptor, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster.  The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard,   Those bold insurancers of deathless fame,    Supply their little feeble aids in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could add a few million bucks to the bottom line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34322]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could add a few million bucks to the bottom line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54630]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14214]]></link><description><![CDATA[With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14214</guid></item></channel></rss>