<?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[But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45142]]></link><description><![CDATA[But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24509]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the worst poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the worst poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9303]]></link><description><![CDATA[An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only great minds can afford a simple style. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only great minds can afford a simple style.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no short cut, nor "royal road," to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38358]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no short cut, nor "royal road," to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to pursue is long, difficult, and unsafe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16471]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, sir, and wherefore; for they say every why hath a wherefore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, sir, and wherefore; for they say every why hath a wherefore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set your target and keep trying until you reach it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66908]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the world slide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the world slide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soft speeches of the wicked are full of deceit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soft speeches of the wicked are full of deceit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tornado came through here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33335]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tornado came through here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daily with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daily with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11368]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a simple Buddhist monk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a simple Buddhist monk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54491]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43399]]></link><description><![CDATA[No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5811]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hit a little home for me, actually. Not the stripping, but seeing these people who haven't been handed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31438]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hit a little home for me, actually. Not the stripping, but seeing these people who haven't been handed the best card in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evidence is clear. This reaches the top ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â the very top of our archdiocese, ... Regrettably, the perpetrators of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41220]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evidence is clear. This reaches the top ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â the very top of our archdiocese, ... Regrettably, the perpetrators of these crimes and the people that protected them will never face the penalties they deserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the true price of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the true price of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17957]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3162]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So often, it's the men and their business dealings that make it down through history. But this gives us a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40130]]></link><description><![CDATA[So often, it's the men and their business dealings that make it down through history. But this gives us a chance to look at the females of these times and the strong roles they played in society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patients may postpone getting needed effective treatment, because they are instead relying on alternative remedies that haven't been tested, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patients may postpone getting needed effective treatment, because they are instead relying on alternative remedies that haven't been tested, ... The second danger is that they may actually be harmful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58805]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the love of God, folks, don't do this at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/949]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the love of God, folks, don't do this at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4191]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree: Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly; Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead. And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who survives will see the outcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27901]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who survives will see the outcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51393]]></link><description><![CDATA[That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vote early and vote often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vote early and vote often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["He shall not die, by God," cried by uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58481]]></link><description><![CDATA["He shall not die, by God," cried by uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in: and the Recording Angel as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cure for anger is delay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cure for anger is delay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8752</guid></item></channel></rss>