<?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[Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you fall , you damagewhen you fall in love with somebody your love for them stays with you foreverif ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25871]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you fall , you damagewhen you fall in love with somebody your love for them stays with you foreverif you fall out of love, you where never really in loveonce you fall, you can't fall out of it, you only fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5089]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15305]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43661]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["There's nothing great Nor small," has said a poet of our day,  Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46843]]></link><description><![CDATA["There's nothing great Nor small," has said a poet of our day,  Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve   And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend,Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behindWith whips and stings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend,Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behindWith whips and stings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46174]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mrs. Schmidt had a meeting with Mr. Tancredo about his support for her. We understood it to be an endorsement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mrs. Schmidt had a meeting with Mr. Tancredo about his support for her. We understood it to be an endorsement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Powerful indeed is the empire of habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And read their history in a nation's eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19333]]></link><description><![CDATA[And read their history in a nation's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66693]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain- and since labor is pain in itself- it follows that men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain- and since labor is pain in itself- it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it.When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65366]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness,--an open and noble temper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness,--an open and noble temper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28111]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide another, that he may retire the sooner out of Europe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide another, that he may retire the sooner out of Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who begs timidly courts a refusal. [Lat., Qui timide rogat,  Docet negare.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3931]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who begs timidly courts a refusal. [Lat., Qui timide rogat,  Docet negare.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58057]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The war is history, the Iran-Iraq borders should turn into borders of peace and friendship, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The war is history, the Iran-Iraq borders should turn into borders of peace and friendship,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11396]]></link><description><![CDATA[To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening. But he who can no longer listen to his brother will soon be no longer listening to God, either; he will be doing nothing but prattle in the presence of God, too. This is the beginning of the death of the spiritual life, and in the end there will be nothing left but spiritual chatter and clerical condescension arrayed in pious words ... never really speaking to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28028]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2720]]></link><description><![CDATA[His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any woman could act like a lady, and this behavior was interpreted as being submissive, demure, inhibited...Being a lady in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any woman could act like a lady, and this behavior was interpreted as being submissive, demure, inhibited...Being a lady in the Western world was like footbinding in China.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are trying and we continue to try. We have increased oil production to over 10 million barrels a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40148]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are trying and we continue to try. We have increased oil production to over 10 million barrels a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody is being allowed to enter the area. People are being stopped in a 10-kilometer radius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody is being allowed to enter the area. People are being stopped in a 10-kilometer radius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10426]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Malice drinks one half of its own poison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Malice drinks one half of its own poison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9469]]></link><description><![CDATA[So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9739]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill wound is cured, not an ill name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49124]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44531]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2654]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who moves not forward, goes backward ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10259]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who moves not forward, goes backward]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65119]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64983]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;-  If there's a hole in a' your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;-  If there's a hole in a' your coats,   I rede you tent it:    A chield's amang you takin notes,     And, faith, he'll prent it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23327</guid></item></channel></rss>