<?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[Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade,  Where rumour of oppression and deceit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade,  Where rumour of oppression and deceit,   Of unsuccessful or successful war,    Might never reach me more!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The U.S. is our biggest (oil export) customer. PDVSA is simply responding to that client the way any company should. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The U.S. is our biggest (oil export) customer. PDVSA is simply responding to that client the way any company should.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore,  Folded their pale hands so meekly,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58203]]></link><description><![CDATA[They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore,  Folded their pale hands so meekly,   Spake with us on earth no more!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truly fearless think of themselves as normal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make ducks and drakes with shillings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make ducks and drakes with shillings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe the best social program is a job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65994]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe the best social program is a job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11153]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one loves somebody everything is clear -- where to go, what to do -- it all takes care of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25795]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one loves somebody everything is clear -- where to go, what to do -- it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on authenticity:   Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: Where thou shalt not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on authenticity:   Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: Where thou shalt not only hear all thy sinful works, and words, and thoughts repeated, which thou thy self hadst utterly forgot, but thou shalt hear thy good works, thine alms, thy coming to Church, thy hearing of Sermons, given in evidence against thee, because they had hypocrisy mingled in them; yea, thou shalt find even thy repentance to condemn thee, because thou madest that but a door to a relapse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60414]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray, Like the divining rods of Magi old,  Where precious wealth lies buried, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray, Like the divining rods of Magi old,  Where precious wealth lies buried, not of gold,   But love--strong love, that never can decay!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4038]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can create our own history, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37012]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can create our own history,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year's nominations are a true reflection of the diversity that currently exists in Latin music - not only across ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35219]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year's nominations are a true reflection of the diversity that currently exists in Latin music - not only across genres but across generations as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talking payes no toll. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talking payes no toll.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not clear that the Fed is going to move in June. Perhaps, the Fed moves late summer/early fall, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not clear that the Fed is going to move in June. Perhaps, the Fed moves late summer/early fall, if even then. What is clear is that the economy's momentum, which was quite strong in the first quarter, is indeed slowing down It is also clear that profit momentum for the year is going to be slow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest part of this job is that you have to be more than a manager. You have to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35760]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest part of this job is that you have to be more than a manager. You have to be a rock star. And I'm not that good a rock star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is greedy is always in want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18292]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is greedy is always in want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain:  As, painfully to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain:  As, painfully to pore upon a book,   To seek the light of truth, which truth the while    Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27246]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65786]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27257]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. . -C.G. Jung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As best gem upon her zone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As best gem upon her zone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is Man Exploiting Man; Communism is just the opposite ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is Man Exploiting Man; Communism is just the opposite]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20071]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no,' I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14614]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milke saies to wine, welcome friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Milke saies to wine, welcome friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prince of darkness is a gentleman ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prince of darkness is a gentleman]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools. -As You Like It. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would I had some flowers o' th' spring that might Become your time of day, and yours, and yours, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would I had some flowers o' th' spring that might Become your time of day, and yours, and yours,  That wear upon your virgin branches yet   Your maidenheads growing. O, Proserpina,    For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall     From Dis's wagon; daffodils,      That come before the swallow dares, and take       The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,        But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes         Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses,          That die unmarried, ere they can behold           Bright Phoebus in his strength--a malady            Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and             The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,              The flower-de-luce being one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30694]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66877]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only cowards insult dying majesty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only cowards insult dying majesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing is the true test of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing is the true test of art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A longer campaign would tend to attract more candidates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32986]]></link><description><![CDATA[A longer campaign would tend to attract more candidates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the recovery takes hold, the vulnerability we have surrounding these issues will diminish and they won't be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40339]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the recovery takes hold, the vulnerability we have surrounding these issues will diminish and they won't be able to impact the overall economy. And then investors will focus on the good news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The long days are no happier than the short ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The long days are no happier than the short ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5668]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, ;or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[E'en a crow o' th' same nest; not altogether so great as the first in goodness, but greater a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10497]]></link><description><![CDATA[E'en a crow o' th' same nest; not altogether so great as the first in goodness, but greater a great deal in evil. He excels his brother for a coward, yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is. In a retreat he outruns any lackey; marry, in coming on he has the cramp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10497</guid></item></channel></rss>