<?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[Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good deed I may do To a suffering fellow man, Let me do it while I can. No delay, for it is plain I shall not pass this way again. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11332]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should think your tongue has broken its chain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should think your tongue has broken its chain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fight till the last gasp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fight till the last gasp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48882]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4805]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45912]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An upright judge, a learned judge! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55609]]></link><description><![CDATA[An upright judge, a learned judge! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He likes the poor things of the world the best, I would not, therefore, if I could be rich.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5140]]></link><description><![CDATA[He likes the poor things of the world the best, I would not, therefore, if I could be rich.  It pleases him t stoop for buttercups.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we read history we make history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19427]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we read history we make history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Andres took a nice firm shot at the far post because their goalkeeper left it wide open, and he put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Andres took a nice firm shot at the far post because their goalkeeper left it wide open, and he put it in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18470]]></link><description><![CDATA[These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of the people who were at that board meeting, can I see a show of hands of those who heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of the people who were at that board meeting, can I see a show of hands of those who heard her cuss me out?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12859]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart;  We may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13225]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart;  We may live without friends; we may live without books;   But civilized man cannot live without cooks.    He may live without books,--what is knowledge but grieving?     He may live without hope,--what is hope but deceiving?      He may live without love,--what is passion but pining?       But where is the man that can live without dining?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been telling our clients that their portfolios should be over-weighted in investment services and credit cards. Those are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42447]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been telling our clients that their portfolios should be over-weighted in investment services and credit cards. Those are the two segments of the financial services industry that we think have the best fundamentals. And we stick by that advice right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63867]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loved every minute of it. But to say I had a little stress would be an understatement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38340]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loved every minute of it. But to say I had a little stress would be an understatement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By banishing doubt and thinking in no-limit ways, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63331]]></link><description><![CDATA[By banishing doubt and thinking in no-limit ways, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through. The power of intention is so deficient of doubt that when you're connected to it you see what you'd like to have as already being present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3082]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience:  A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience:  A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest,  Lend less than thou owest,   Ride more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest,  Lend less than thou owest,   Ride more than thou goest,    Learn more than thou trowest,     Set less than thou throwest;      Leave thy drink and thy whore,       And keep in-a-door,        And thou shalt have more         Than two tens to a score.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Drake whom well the world's end knew Which thou did'st compass round,  And whom both Poles of heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Drake whom well the world's end knew Which thou did'st compass round,  And whom both Poles of heaven once saw   Which North and South do bound,    The stars above would make thee known,     If men here silent were;      The sun himself cannot forget       His fellow traveller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18904]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13490]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth, and wit that knows no gall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth, and wit that knows no gall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speake fitly, or be silent wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For example, if a car rental company charges $100 a day for a mid-sized rental car to a family in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35982]]></link><description><![CDATA[For example, if a car rental company charges $100 a day for a mid-sized rental car to a family in need, this amounts to exorbitant pricing and that company will answer for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  To worship is to quicken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, and to devote the will to the purpose of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The energy of the mind is the essence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The energy of the mind is the essence of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29580</guid></item></channel></rss>