<?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[To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48176]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy and the NettlesA boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy and the NettlesA boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Although it hurts me very much, I only touched it gently. That was just why it stung you, said his Mother. The next time you touch a Nettle, grasp it boldly, and it will be soft as silk to your hand, and not in the least hurt you. Whatever you do, do with all your might.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an awesome piece of equipment, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33660]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an awesome piece of equipment,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and un-fulfillment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20796]]></link><description><![CDATA[The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and un-fulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41252]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy I was playing. I learned a little bit about acting in that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32125]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hoping if the dumpling-eating challenge is successful, ... it will make our event the premier dumpling-eating event in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33145]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hoping if the dumpling-eating challenge is successful, ... it will make our event the premier dumpling-eating event in the New York area, sort of like what Coney Island is to Nathan's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just one project; the technology will only give you 20% of the ROI. Process changes will give you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32473]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just one project; the technology will only give you 20% of the ROI. Process changes will give you 50% of the ROI, and the last 30% of that ROI equation is the people -- that's your change-management piece.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear has many eyes. [Sp., El miedo tiene muchos ojos.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear has many eyes. [Sp., El miedo tiene muchos ojos.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discouragement is the opposite of courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discouragement is the opposite of courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8511]]></link><description><![CDATA[In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not merely a sacred book but a book so remorselessly and continuously sacred that it does not invite -- it excludes or repels -- the merely aesthetic approach. You can read it as literature only by a tour de force... It demands incessantly to be taken on its own terms: it will not continue to give literary delight very long, except to those who go to it for something quite different. I predict that it will in the future be read, as it always has been read, almost exclusively by Christians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -what makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -what makes you go beyond the norm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the government does not help us, we are ready to take up arms, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the government does not help us, we are ready to take up arms,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just needed help with learning how to care for children with special needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40967]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just needed help with learning how to care for children with special needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are charging customers to sell to them. To me that seems like an inefficient model. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40460]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are charging customers to sell to them. To me that seems like an inefficient model.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on this planet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're focusing on particular works ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â films, books, pieces of music, architecture ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that deserve the name 'icon' and have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40285]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're focusing on particular works ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â films, books, pieces of music, architecture ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that deserve the name 'icon' and have this influence on our culture. Everybody knows those things, but almost because they're icons, people don't look below the fact of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HBO is, and will continue to be, the most profitable network in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31568]]></link><description><![CDATA[HBO is, and will continue to be, the most profitable network in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8235]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 Vain is the chiming of forgotten bells  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 Vain is the chiming of forgotten bells  That the wind sways above a ruined shrine.  Vainer his voice in whom no longer dwells  Hunger that craves immortal Bread and Wine. Light songs we breathe, that perish with our breath,  Out of our lips that have not kissed the rod.  They shall not live who have not tasted death.  They only sing who are struck dumb by God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Year's Day is every man's birthday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64514]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Year's Day is every man's birthday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2146]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complain to one who can help you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complain to one who can help you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you shoot at a king you must kill him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24487]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you shoot at a king you must kill him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13261]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31359]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night,  And God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night,  And God within far Heaven refuse to light   The consolation of the dawn for me,--    Between the shadowy burns of Heaven and Hell,     It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell      With memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62889]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cities seldome change Religion only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cities seldome change Religion only.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think, ye may buy the joys o'er dear, Remember Tam o'Shanter's mare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think, ye may buy the joys o'er dear, Remember Tam o'Shanter's mare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides, they always smell of bread and butter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A joke is a very serious thing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23299]]></link><description><![CDATA[A joke is a very serious thing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never said this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28844]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never said this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Richard! O my king! The universe forsakes thee! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54499]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Richard! O my king! The universe forsakes thee!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this there grows In my most ill-compos'd affection such  A stanchless avarice that, were I King,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20164]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this there grows In my most ill-compos'd affection such  A stanchless avarice that, were I King,   I should cut off the nobles for their lands,    Desire his jewels, and this other's house,     And my more-having would be as a sauce      To make me hunger more, that I should forge       Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,        Destroying them for wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20164</guid></item></channel></rss>