<?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[Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An empire is an immense egotism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13677]]></link><description><![CDATA[An empire is an immense egotism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24381]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Austrian army awfully arrayed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57124]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Austrian army awfully arrayed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61372]]></link><description><![CDATA[That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions,  Setting endeavor in continual motion;   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions,  Setting endeavor in continual motion;   To which is fixed as an aim or butt    Obedience; for so work the honeybees,     Creatures that by a rule in nature teach      The act of order to a peopled kingdom.       They have a king, and officers of sorts,        Where some like magistrates correct at home,         Others like merchants venture trade abroad,          Others like soldiers armed in their stings           Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds,            Which pillage they with merry march bring home             To the tent-royal of their emperor,              Who, busied in his majesties, surveys               The singing masons building roofs of gold,                The civil citizens kneading up the honey,                 The poor mechanic porters crowding in                  Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,                   The sad-eyed justice with his surly hum                    Delivering o'er to executors pale                     The lazy yawning drone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness seems to be the result of something happening — inactivity is not very exhilarating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness seems to be the result of something happening — inactivity is not very exhilarating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had been used to the heat of New Orleans for so many years, and she found La Jolla cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30380]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had been used to the heat of New Orleans for so many years, and she found La Jolla cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54000]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling someone the truth is a loving act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling someone the truth is a loving act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2276]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27724]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - The Oracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   I am, indeed, far from agreeing with those who think all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   I am, indeed, far from agreeing with those who think all religious fear barbarous and degrading and demand that it should be banished from the spiritual life. Perfect love, we know, casteth out fear. But so do several other things--ignorance, alcohol, passion presumption, and stupidity. It is very desirable that we should all advance to that perfection of love in which we shall fear no longer; but it is very undesirable, until we have reached that stage, that we should allow any inferior agent to cast out our fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62814]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vertue and a Trade are the best portion for Children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vertue and a Trade are the best portion for Children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It occurred to me that I have spent almost every working day of the past ten years living in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31750]]></link><description><![CDATA[It occurred to me that I have spent almost every working day of the past ten years living in a state of repressed fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44786]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,  And heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,  And heard thy everlasting yarn confess   The Pains and Penalties of Idleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.  Wha does the utmost that he can  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62002]]></link><description><![CDATA[And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.  Wha does the utmost that he can   Will whyles do mair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts,  By time subdues (what will not time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2755]]></link><description><![CDATA[My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts,  By time subdues (what will not time subdue!)   An horrid chasm disclosed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto,  And putting us to ignorance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57277]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto,  And putting us to ignorance again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   O God, Who hast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   O God, Who hast ordained that whatever is to be desired, should be sought by labor, and Who, by Thy blessing, bringest honest labor to good effect; look with mercy upon my studies and endeavors. Grant me, O Lord, to design only what is lawful and right, and afford me calmness of mind, and steadiness of purpose, that I may so do Thy will in this short life, as to obtain happiness in the world to come, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is still a pretty benign report overall and broadly in line with Bank of England expectations contained in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36609]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is still a pretty benign report overall and broadly in line with Bank of England expectations contained in the February Inflation Report.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to get boring before it gets exciting. It's gone from a criminal trial to more of a civil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38283]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to get boring before it gets exciting. It's gone from a criminal trial to more of a civil one. This has become a document trial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46309]]></link><description><![CDATA[We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good husband makes a good wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27081]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good husband makes a good wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The slothful is the servant of the counters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The slothful is the servant of the counters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancestral voices prophesying war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ancestral voices prophesying war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ends must justify the means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ends must justify the means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a promise delivered already broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a promise delivered already broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51876]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4719]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's our savior. He was phenomenal out there. He's been that way for awhile now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37378]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's our savior. He was phenomenal out there. He's been that way for awhile now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14107]]></link><description><![CDATA[An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abundance does not spread; famine does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abundance does not spread; famine does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In quarreling the truth is always lost ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52692]]></link><description><![CDATA[In quarreling the truth is always lost]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64266]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37950]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No work of art is worth the bones of a Pomeranian Grenadier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3169]]></link><description><![CDATA[No work of art is worth the bones of a Pomeranian Grenadier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think Brittany pitched a really good game. They had a couple good hitters. We know [Powell] is a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think Brittany pitched a really good game. They had a couple good hitters. We know [Powell] is a good hitter. The first one I thought Emily might have a shot at, but the second one was a no-doubter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The migration path to anything but Microsoft would require a forklift overhaul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The migration path to anything but Microsoft would require a forklift overhaul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31919</guid></item></channel></rss>