<?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 Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55529]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47830]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health and mony goe farre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health and mony goe farre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a better option than having to go to Colombia, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35965]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a better option than having to go to Colombia,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have rededicated myself to my procession as a way of honoring him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38550]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have rededicated myself to my procession as a way of honoring him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21251]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which is worse? the wolf who cries beforeeating the lamb or the wolf who does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which is worse? the wolf who cries beforeeating the lamb or the wolf who does not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47468]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forbeare not sowing because of birds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forbeare not sowing because of birds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...we see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15814]]></link><description><![CDATA[...we see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63815]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12376]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others /the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not because we want to discriminate against any race. We're not prejudice up here. The decision by the City ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42334]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not because we want to discriminate against any race. We're not prejudice up here. The decision by the City Council was that new streets be named after past presidents and possibly after the people that you talked about. We do not want to name existing streets because we are worried about what the cost would be to our neighbors who live on that street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This isn't just a legal compliance issue for us. We consider the privacy issue to be an opportunity to reinforce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5038]]></link><description><![CDATA[This isn't just a legal compliance issue for us. We consider the privacy issue to be an opportunity to reinforce our brand image.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9195]]></link><description><![CDATA[A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In fact, it tends to argue the opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30781]]></link><description><![CDATA[In fact, it tends to argue the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. •George S. Patton  Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. •Benjamin Disraeli  Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. •William Feather  All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. •Mark Twain  The reward of a thing well done is having done it. •Ralph Waldo Emerson  It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. •Joseph Ross  Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. •Dave Gardner  If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. •Anonymous  The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. •Elbert Hubbard  Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. •James W. Pence   The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin  The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. •Nelson Boswell  The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. •Jean Giraudoux  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. •Bill Cosby  Why be a man when you can be a success? •Bertold Brecht  For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. •Richard Feynman  Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like jelly beans, and sometimes you get your favorite color. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like jelly beans, and sometimes you get your favorite color.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our growth has been quite measured. It's never been our intent to impose a lot of restaurants on the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our growth has been quite measured. It's never been our intent to impose a lot of restaurants on the world but rather to keep pace with the demand for our food. We've very methodically entered new markets and built in our existing markets based on the demand and what our opportunity has been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49018]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's this that myrrh doth still smell in thy kiss, And that with thee no other odour is?  'Tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14065]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's this that myrrh doth still smell in thy kiss, And that with thee no other odour is?  'Tis doubt, my Postumus, he that doth smell   So sweetly always, smells not very well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10822]]></link><description><![CDATA["What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65477]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smile - It's the second best thing you can do with your lips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smile - It's the second best thing you can do with your lips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purifying worth of prayer consists in the increasing contrast which it sets up between the holy God and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purifying worth of prayer consists in the increasing contrast which it sets up between the holy God and the creature; subordinating that creature's fugitive activities and desires to the standard set by this solemn apprehension of Reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My parents are from Mexico and when they came here they weren't legal. Now they are, but I still have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38016]]></link><description><![CDATA[My parents are from Mexico and when they came here they weren't legal. Now they are, but I still have family that isn't. It affects me personally; that's why I got involved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Handle your tools without mittens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Handle your tools without mittens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn\'t, then why would you say I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66721]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn\'t, then why would you say I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kallis is a methodical run machine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kallis is a methodical run machine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom begins at the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom begins at the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44900]]></link><description><![CDATA[October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55409]]></link><description><![CDATA[One Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All we are saying is give peace a chance. -John Lennon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45992]]></link><description><![CDATA[All we are saying is give peace a chance. -John Lennon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57600</guid></item></channel></rss>