<?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[Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. [Lat., Voluptas mentis (ut ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. [Lat., Voluptas mentis (ut ita dicam) praestringit oculos, nec habet ullum cum virtute commercium.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing againstthe giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing againstthe giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46712]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The neighbors had been asking the mayor to destroy the structures to erase the stigma already attached to the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The neighbors had been asking the mayor to destroy the structures to erase the stigma already attached to the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health food makes me sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health food makes me sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is hard. After all, it kills you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is hard. After all, it kills you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IMS technology will play a big role in determining how communications service providers develop and deploy next-generation networks. The IDC ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38333]]></link><description><![CDATA[IMS technology will play a big role in determining how communications service providers develop and deploy next-generation networks. The IDC Shoot Out on the Telecom NEXT exhibit floor will be a great place to compare the latest IMS products from some of the world's leading technology companies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Life means] giving as much of yourself as you have to give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39467]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Life means] giving as much of yourself as you have to give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ad astra per aspera [To the stars through difficulties] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ad astra per aspera [To the stars through difficulties]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57763]]></link><description><![CDATA[We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors  To study fashions to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors  To study fashions to adorn my body:   Since I am crept in favor with myself,    I will maintain it with some little cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8482]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad forgery's the ultimate insult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15764]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1623]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We felt that if we could do it at the right price, the cleaning robot would be embraced by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32068]]></link><description><![CDATA[We felt that if we could do it at the right price, the cleaning robot would be embraced by the masses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals are human just like us in a different shape and form so do not abuse them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals are human just like us in a different shape and form so do not abuse them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was the guy I looked up to, that I wanted to be like, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30254]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was the guy I looked up to, that I wanted to be like,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,  Yet gives not o'er though desperate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46161]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,  Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is not diminished by being shared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is not diminished by being shared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not exchange for the treasures of India. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53010]]></link><description><![CDATA[My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not exchange for the treasures of India.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What! upon compulsion? No! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51301]]></link><description><![CDATA[What! upon compulsion? No!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dad was a Buick guy and I followed in his footsteps. But I always liked the performance end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34889]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dad was a Buick guy and I followed in his footsteps. But I always liked the performance end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a structural problem in the rural economy and a structural problem in the urban economy, that's really the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31477]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a structural problem in the rural economy and a structural problem in the urban economy, that's really the story, ... It's really coincidental that everything has gone bad at one time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better good afarre off, then evill at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better good afarre off, then evill at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59187]]></link><description><![CDATA[When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6050]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Underneath an apple-tree Sat a maiden and her lover;  And the thoughts within her he   Yearned, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Underneath an apple-tree Sat a maiden and her lover;  And the thoughts within her he   Yearned, in silence, to discover.    Round them danced the sunbeams bright,     Green the grass-lawn stretched before them      While the apple blossoms white       Hung in rich profusion o'er them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. -Mother Teresa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45994]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. -Mother Teresa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26767]]></link><description><![CDATA[The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22515]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world. [The Circle is Sacred].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1454]]></link><description><![CDATA[When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20175]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. There is only one thing, which somebody once put into my head, that I dislike in sleep; it is, that it resembles death; there is very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  If we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  If we are directed only by our particular natures, and regulate our inclinations by no higher rule than that of our reasons, we are but moralists; divinity will still call us heathens. Therefore this great work of charity must have other motives, ends, and impulsions. I give no alms to satisfy the hunger of my brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the will and command of my God; I draw not my purse for his sake that demands it, but his that enjoined it; I relieve no man upon the rhetoric of his miseries, nor to content mine own commiserating disposition, for this is still but moral charity, and an act that oweth more to passion than reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who desires to become rich, wishes to become so as quickly as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50449]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who desires to become rich, wishes to become so as quickly as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parliamentary polls will kick-start the democratic process in Chechnya, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parliamentary polls will kick-start the democratic process in Chechnya,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God overridesat times thescreenplay ofHer starscript. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5555]]></link><description><![CDATA[God overridesat times thescreenplay ofHer starscript.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!  Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare be! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55310]]></link><description><![CDATA["With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!  Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare be!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55310</guid></item></channel></rss>