<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a double-standard. And quite often if you're from Africa, if you're from a developing country, you'll be executed. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33677]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a double-standard. And quite often if you're from Africa, if you're from a developing country, you'll be executed. There aren't that many people protesting or making a big fuss. But our State Department and the media -- if you're a Westerner -- will make a big fuss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your laugh is of the sardonic kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your laugh is of the sardonic kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That would make this particularly disheartening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32298]]></link><description><![CDATA[That would make this particularly disheartening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11057]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20071]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no,' I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the smallest of the majors, and they have an automotive-market niche, and some people think that's extremely attractive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42676]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the smallest of the majors, and they have an automotive-market niche, and some people think that's extremely attractive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call;  For what is worth, in anything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62323]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call;  For what is worth, in anything,   But so much money as 't will bring?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't. O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there?  What's this, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't. O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there?  What's this, a sleeve? 'Tis like a demi-cannon.   What, up and down carved like an apple tart?    Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,     Like to a censer in a barber's shop.      Why, what's a devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man whose authority is recent is always stern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man whose authority is recent is always stern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In economics, the majority is always wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26209]]></link><description><![CDATA[In economics, the majority is always wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When evening closes Nature's eye, The glow-worm lights her little spark  To captivate her favorite fly   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17581]]></link><description><![CDATA[When evening closes Nature's eye, The glow-worm lights her little spark  To captivate her favorite fly   And tempt the rover through the dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great fish [eat] the small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16052]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great fish [eat] the small.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14908]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The umpires are closer than we are. We tried to see the replay, but it was tough to tell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The umpires are closer than we are. We tried to see the replay, but it was tough to tell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22960]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25028]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment. -Aaron Antonovsky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No person among us deserves any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10317]]></link><description><![CDATA[No person among us deserves any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cult is a religion with no political power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21713]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cult is a religion with no political power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are students who have a lot of potential but don't have people pushing them or showing them how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40503]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are students who have a lot of potential but don't have people pushing them or showing them how to succeed. The AVID elective class teaches them how to be good students n they learn how to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These falls are typically always frozen, but they're getting shorter as the snow pack increases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34483]]></link><description><![CDATA[These falls are typically always frozen, but they're getting shorter as the snow pack increases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63246]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15533]]></link><description><![CDATA[February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17877]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not like I walked in expecting this, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39810]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not like I walked in expecting this,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Bunyan understood the Gospel when he wrote that tract, "The Jerusalem Sinner Saved." He knew that every sinner is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7652]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Bunyan understood the Gospel when he wrote that tract, "The Jerusalem Sinner Saved." He knew that every sinner is a Jerusalem sinner who has crucified the Lord of Glory; and to whom, notwithstanding all this, the grace of God is exceedingly abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. Therefore the Apostle Paul himself is a pattern... of the grace of God abounding to the Christ-crucifiers. A new covenant is made with those who transgressed the first covenant. It is the brethren of Joseph, who have sold him into Egypt, who are made the partakers of Joseph's power and of Joseph's riches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you produce the right people in the right volumes with the right skills in the right place at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33155]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you produce the right people in the right volumes with the right skills in the right place at the right time?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40473]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high  And wakes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high  And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast   The sun ariseth in his majesty;    Who doth the world so gloriously behold     That cedar tops and hills seem burnished gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The measure of a man is what he does with power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The measure of a man is what he does with power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1154]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1145]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With our business solution in place we are far ahead of any alliance competitor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36815]]></link><description><![CDATA[With our business solution in place we are far ahead of any alliance competitor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of controlling your environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66877]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66868]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's his name, the number 10, the small one who doesn't play in the Real Madrid first team. This midget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31025]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's his name, the number 10, the small one who doesn't play in the Real Madrid first team. This midget who thinks he's a king, I refuse to talk about him any more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been telling our clients that their portfolios should be over-weighted in investment services and credit cards. Those are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42447]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been telling our clients that their portfolios should be over-weighted in investment services and credit cards. Those are the two segments of the financial services industry that we think have the best fundamentals. And we stick by that advice right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42447</guid></item></channel></rss>