<?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[Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25651]]></link><description><![CDATA[You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46543]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say;  Stops every fool that passes by,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say;  Stops every fool that passes by,   And frights the school-boy from his play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17313]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58640]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62598]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst  Of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62506]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst  Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With me everything turns into mathematics. [Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26536]]></link><description><![CDATA[With me everything turns into mathematics. [Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64492]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would help others out of a fellow-feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23751]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is argument carried on by other means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is argument carried on by other means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65104]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43516]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch. [Fr., L'on ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54216]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch. [Fr., L'on ne saurait mieux faire voir que le magnifique et le ridicule sont si voisins qu'ils se touchent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eleanor Roosevelt, during the years that she was first lady had a home at Washington Square park in New York ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eleanor Roosevelt, during the years that she was first lady had a home at Washington Square park in New York City.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visua]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52548]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62710]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why then we should drop into poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why then we should drop into poetry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small projects need much more help than great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small projects need much more help than great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/376]]></link><description><![CDATA[High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is a simple way of saying complicated things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is a simple way of saying complicated things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babe was a wonderful person. He was just a big kid who loved the limelight. If 500 children were waiting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babe was a wonderful person. He was just a big kid who loved the limelight. If 500 children were waiting for his autograph, he'd stand there and sign for each one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22512]]></link><description><![CDATA[God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11287]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. - Memorial service ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. - Memorial service for Justice Brandeis, December 21, 1942.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4198]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prospering just doesn't have to do with money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59951]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may blaspheme against the Son of Man and be forgiven; but the sin against the Spirit of Truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8371]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may blaspheme against the Son of Man and be forgiven; but the sin against the Spirit of Truth -- what can God Himself do with or for the man who will not acknowledge the truth he knows, or follow the light he sees?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two pillars of 'political correctness' are:a) willful ignoranceb) a steadfast refusal to face the truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two pillars of 'political correctness' are:a) willful ignoranceb) a steadfast refusal to face the truth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I talk of cheese, you of chalk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I talk of cheese, you of chalk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14427]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24208]]></link><description><![CDATA[One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34753]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's Britney Spears and sometimes it's Carrie Fisher. I can't tell if I've got a Lolita complex or an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's Britney Spears and sometimes it's Carrie Fisher. I can't tell if I've got a Lolita complex or an Oedipus complex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27272]]></link><description><![CDATA[An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big companies are global, and they want to integrate their systems because it is cheaper to work with a single ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big companies are global, and they want to integrate their systems because it is cheaper to work with a single telecommunications company around the world. Our challenge is to globalize our U.S. base, which we are doing at a quick pace, and to help multinationals in Europe, Japan and the rest of Asia globalize their business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who letwell enough alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22667]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who letwell enough alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables who enforce obedience to its provisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the first quarter, the earnings surprises have been getting smaller and we expect that to continue based on anecdotal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the first quarter, the earnings surprises have been getting smaller and we expect that to continue based on anecdotal evidence that analysts know the economy's moving faster and all the pre-announcements that come out now,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We were very lucky. We started Spy at a time when our generation had arrived at full adulthood and wanted to connect to its anti-establishment youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any community that fails to prepare -- with the expectation that the federal government can or will offer a lifeline ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any community that fails to prepare -- with the expectation that the federal government can or will offer a lifeline -- will be tragically wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28822</guid></item></channel></rss>