<?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[Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[King Stephen was a worthy peere, His breeches cost him but a crowne;  He held them sixpence all too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58570]]></link><description><![CDATA[King Stephen was a worthy peere, His breeches cost him but a crowne;  He held them sixpence all too deere,   Therefore he call'd the taylor lowne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very afraid. We closed the offices for months. The mullahs went back to their homes. We didn't know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very afraid. We closed the offices for months. The mullahs went back to their homes. We didn't know whether we would find another leader for the council.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And weep the more, because I weep in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58800]]></link><description><![CDATA[And weep the more, because I weep in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daryl will be a great addition to our organization. With the high level of competition in this league, you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daryl will be a great addition to our organization. With the high level of competition in this league, you can never have too much information. If we combine the best information with our basketball people we should be able to make the most informed and best decisions in the NBA. Daryl will be an important part of that process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many-headed multitude. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many-headed multitude. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people choose not to donate their services because they believe that it somehow devalues them by "giving them away." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people choose not to donate their services because they believe that it somehow devalues them by "giving them away." In truth, there is nothing that demonstrates the value of your skills more than putting them to good use for a cause you believe in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65608]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and Gentleness is Power.   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and Gentleness is Power.   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Palestinian Authority seems to believe that failing to act against terrorism, and inducing turmoil, chaos and instability, will cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Palestinian Authority seems to believe that failing to act against terrorism, and inducing turmoil, chaos and instability, will cause the government and people of Israel to buckle. They will not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But owned that smile, if oft observed and near, Waned in its mirth, and wither'd to a sneer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56674]]></link><description><![CDATA[But owned that smile, if oft observed and near, Waned in its mirth, and wither'd to a sneer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56674</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[Integrity is praised and starves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is praised and starves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52123]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30227]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and life are for to-day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and life are for to-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But something may be done that we will not; And sometimes we are devils to ourselves  When we will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58903]]></link><description><![CDATA[But something may be done that we will not; And sometimes we are devils to ourselves  When we will tempt the frailty of our powers,   Presuming on their changeful potency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our investigation found evidence that juveniles were routinely hit, shoved and slapped by staff, that juveniles were sprayed with pepper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our investigation found evidence that juveniles were routinely hit, shoved and slapped by staff, that juveniles were sprayed with pepper spray while in restraints,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said,  This is my own, my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said,  This is my own, my native land!   Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,    As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,     From wandering on a foreign strand!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In Overdosed America, Dr. Abramson cites CDC data indicating that over the course of the past 100 years, life expectancy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38392]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In Overdosed America, Dr. Abramson cites CDC data indicating that over the course of the past 100 years, life expectancy has increased by a remarkable 30 years. Yet according to the CDC report quoted by Abramson,] 25 years of this gain are attributable to advances in public health. ... These include improvements such as sanitation, clean food and water, decent housing, good nutrition, higher standards of living, and widespread vaccinations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36987]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27545]]></link><description><![CDATA[That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the sinner has a right to preach ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the sinner has a right to preach]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37993]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  The New Jerusalem, when it comes, will probably be found so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  The New Jerusalem, when it comes, will probably be found so far to resemble the old as to stone its prophets freely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone!  When warring winds have died away, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50688]]></link><description><![CDATA[How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone!  When warring winds have died away,   And clouds, beneath the glancing ray,    Melt off, and leave the land and sea     Sleeping in bright tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12560]]></link><description><![CDATA[And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These oil companies are making profit hand over fist as consumers are suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29407]]></link><description><![CDATA[These oil companies are making profit hand over fist as consumers are suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She really did her homework on this one and read the analysts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36570]]></link><description><![CDATA[She really did her homework on this one and read the analysts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13489]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That Raven on yon left-hand oak (Curse on his ill-betiding croak)  Bodes me no good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52979]]></link><description><![CDATA[That Raven on yon left-hand oak (Curse on his ill-betiding croak)  Bodes me no good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can run one business well, you can run any business well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15987]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56768]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise  Thee and thy suit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise  Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes:   Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be happy while y'er leevin, For y'er a lang time deid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be happy while y'er leevin, For y'er a lang time deid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43279</guid></item></channel></rss>