<?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[The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58164]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. (0400 GMT) this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. (0400 GMT) this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four from among the attackers (who were killed).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wouldn't be unusual to tear it all down. If you paid this much for the property, you'd want your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wouldn't be unusual to tear it all down. If you paid this much for the property, you'd want your own home. He (Woods) is probably going to want to redevelop the whole piece.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear that supplies of crude oil and natural gas are more than adequate. The gasoline supply looked pretty tight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39170]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear that supplies of crude oil and natural gas are more than adequate. The gasoline supply looked pretty tight a few weeks ago but the market responded and that's no longer the case. We are also getting closer to the end of winter and it's clear gas and heating-oil stocks will be sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11455]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Banished the doctor, and expell'd the friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Banished the doctor, and expell'd the friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Embarrassment of riches. [Fr., Embarras des richesse.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Embarrassment of riches. [Fr., Embarras des richesse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate, And not the wonders of thy youth relate;  How can I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57128]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate, And not the wonders of thy youth relate;  How can I see the gay, the brave, the young,   Fall in the cloud of war, and lie unsung!    In joys of conquest he resigns his breath,     And, filled with England's glory, smiles in death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government of Chinahas become likeUK and US a pirateof innocent kidnappedpharmaceutically abused primates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government of Chinahas become likeUK and US a pirateof innocent kidnappedpharmaceutically abused primates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is going to be an interesting budget year. It'll all work out ... but it may be that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29336]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is going to be an interesting budget year. It'll all work out ... but it may be that we just meet our needs this year and do fewer wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10891</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[About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5117]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has a family member or knows somebody who's been locked up, who's been murdered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has a family member or knows somebody who's been locked up, who's been murdered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberatedfrom the cataract of accepted belief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberatedfrom the cataract of accepted belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4815]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has always had more force than education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has always had more force than education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still hope that Poland will join this agreement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41588]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still hope that Poland will join this agreement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Error is just as important a condition of life as truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Error is just as important a condition of life as truth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14723]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So live that your memories will be part of your happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18712]]></link><description><![CDATA[So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66240]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no reason to suspect this was anything other than, well, a burglary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40654]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no reason to suspect this was anything other than, well, a burglary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61996]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13169]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the poetry of the senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the poetry of the senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53688]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I run him over, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29483]]></link><description><![CDATA[I run him over,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11097]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King,  Of wedded maid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8640]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King,  Of wedded maid and virgin mother born,   Our great redemption from above did bring,    For so the holy sages once did sing,     That He our deadly forfeit should release,      And with His Father work us a perpetual peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53353]]></link><description><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44785]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45588]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It created quite a mess here in Massachusetts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35385]]></link><description><![CDATA[It created quite a mess here in Massachusetts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She didn't seem to get flustered or frustrated about the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42013]]></link><description><![CDATA[She didn't seem to get flustered or frustrated about the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It indicates how employers have shifted their focus on how to pay their employees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39795]]></link><description><![CDATA[It indicates how employers have shifted their focus on how to pay their employees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature. [Lat., Ars fit ubi a teneris crimen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature. [Lat., Ars fit ubi a teneris crimen condiscitur annis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22269</guid></item></channel></rss>