<?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[We have been completely blessed. Usually, there are different stages in a band. But every time we get to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40112]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been completely blessed. Usually, there are different stages in a band. But every time we get to a different level, like recording our album or playing with national bands, something just comes along and makes it all work out. It's totally unexpected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45824]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13395]]></link><description><![CDATA["Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If yet not lost to all the sense of shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56129]]></link><description><![CDATA[If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No choice amongst stinking fish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51015]]></link><description><![CDATA[No choice amongst stinking fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a frustration that these letters aren't considered public and so it's difficult to understand what the risks are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33423]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a frustration that these letters aren't considered public and so it's difficult to understand what the risks are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great thing about being an architect is you can walk into your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great thing about being an architect is you can walk into your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13216]]></link><description><![CDATA[In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes foreducation is not education at all but ritual. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22477]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes foreducation is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we arebeing educated when we know it least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our similarities are different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our similarities are different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hamming's Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hamming's Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60029]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56020]]></link><description><![CDATA[O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18715]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. Victor Hugo -Diogenes Laertius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger is insolent, and will be fed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawyers are like morticians. We all need one sooner or later, but better later than sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawyers are like morticians. We all need one sooner or later, but better later than sooner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the Blue-White game because it gives us that almost-game mentality and you have fans out there -- I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37434]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the Blue-White game because it gives us that almost-game mentality and you have fans out there -- I love it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No conclusion has been reached ... there's still no word what caused this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33812]]></link><description><![CDATA[No conclusion has been reached ... there's still no word what caused this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be the change we wish to see in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21094]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be the change we wish to see in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Security Council has taken up urgent human rights and political problems in more than 20 countries this year. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30398]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Security Council has taken up urgent human rights and political problems in more than 20 countries this year. If China moves to block this effort they should explain to Aung San Suu Kyi and average Burmese people why their concerns are less important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If misery loves company, misery has company enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42777]]></link><description><![CDATA[If misery loves company, misery has company enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14817]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way -- by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goe not for every griefe to the Phtsitian, nor for every quarrell to the Lawyer, nor for every thirst to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goe not for every griefe to the Phtsitian, nor for every quarrell to the Lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20312]]></link><description><![CDATA[A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20199]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of money grows as money grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of money grows as money grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26415]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The U.S. will continue to be our growth driver. There are many opportunities for us in this marketplace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40623]]></link><description><![CDATA[The U.S. will continue to be our growth driver. There are many opportunities for us in this marketplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Abram Brown is dead and gone,-- You'll never see him more;  He used to wear a long brown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Abram Brown is dead and gone,-- You'll never see him more;  He used to wear a long brown coat   That buttoned down before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you feel bad about yourselfyou reverse your magnet and repel people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5780]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you feel bad about yourselfyou reverse your magnet and repel people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5780</guid></item></channel></rss>