<?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[Quoth Sidrophel, If you suppose, Sir Knight, that I am one of those,  I might suspect, and take th' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quoth Sidrophel, If you suppose, Sir Knight, that I am one of those,  I might suspect, and take th' alarm,   You bus'ness is but to inform;    But if it be, 'tis ne'er the near,     You have a wrong sow by the ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[From our side] our relation to God is unrighteous. Secretly we are ourselves the masters in this relationship. We are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8567]]></link><description><![CDATA[[From our side] our relation to God is unrighteous. Secretly we are ourselves the masters in this relationship. We are not concerned with God, but with our own requirements, to which God must adjust Himself. Our arrogance demands that, in addition to everything else, some super-world should also be known and accessible to us. Our conduct calls for some deeper sanction, some approbation and remuneration from another world. Our well-regulated, pleasurable life longs for some hours of devotion, some prolongation into infinity. And so, when we set God upon the throne of the world, we mean by God ourselves. In "believing" on Him, we justify, enjoy, and adore ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47408]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47236]]></link><description><![CDATA[People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they couldn't do anywhere else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46094]]></link><description><![CDATA[All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warre is deaths feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warre is deaths feast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need to be mad as hell about this situation, but they aren't. We haven't gotten the message across. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30392]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need to be mad as hell about this situation, but they aren't. We haven't gotten the message across.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5674]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good.  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23043]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good.  The Emerald of Europe, it sparkled and shone   In the ring of this world, the most precious stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18522]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is a beautiful thing, except for that part about letting just any old yokel vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is a beautiful thing, except for that part about letting just any old yokel vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49258]]></link><description><![CDATA[From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please take the next step to release my husband and return his children's lives to normal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please take the next step to release my husband and return his children's lives to normal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sovereignty is not given, it is taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them hate so long as they fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them hate so long as they fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66089]]></link><description><![CDATA[My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51120]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[where war becomes unthinkable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41941]]></link><description><![CDATA[where war becomes unthinkable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to give people something to dream on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64459]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to give people something to dream on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always going to be competition to be better. Last year's team was senior-driven, this year we have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39941]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always going to be competition to be better. Last year's team was senior-driven, this year we have the numbers with 20 seniors and many underclassmen that are going to play key roles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is as much love between you and me as between the wolf and the lamb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50362]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is as much love between you and me as between the wolf and the lamb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50362</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[Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May  New blooming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May  New blooming blossoms 'neath the sun are born,   And all poor April's charms are swept away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going on to see all these good things that the company and my team did without me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is more important than the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59843]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is more important than the facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead;  And made his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54471]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead;  And made his eldest son, one day,   Slave in his father's stead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21124]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course we do not expect to be on the pace straight away. We will use the first GPs to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course we do not expect to be on the pace straight away. We will use the first GPs to train the team before our definitive car reaches the track.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are quite confident the system has sufficient checks and balances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40888]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are quite confident the system has sufficient checks and balances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deny Self for Self's sake ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deny Self for Self's sake]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26288]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be capable of facing such a number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29091]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be capable of facing such a number.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29091</guid></item></channel></rss>