<?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[There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43902]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31756]]></link><description><![CDATA[We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59425]]></link><description><![CDATA[In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any communication or marketing professional needs cross-cultural research and communication skills to be able to succeed in the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any communication or marketing professional needs cross-cultural research and communication skills to be able to succeed in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30988]]></link><description><![CDATA[A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14625]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that happened by mistake. By mistake, I forgive her (the 15-year-old girl). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that happened by mistake. By mistake, I forgive her (the 15-year-old girl).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58524]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even more significant of the inherent weakness of the collectivist theories is the extraordinary paradox that from the assertion that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even more significant of the inherent weakness of the collectivist theories is the extraordinary paradox that from the assertion that society is in some sense more than merely the aggregate of all individuals their adherents regularly pass by a sort of intellectual somersault to the thesis that in order that the coherence of this larger entity be safeguarded it must be subjected to conscious control, that is, to the control of what in the last resort must be an individual mind. It thus comes about that in practice it is regularly the theoretical collectivist who extols individual reason and demands that all forces of society be made subject to the direction of a single mastermind, while it is the individualist who recognizes the limitations of the powers of individual reason and consequently advocates freedom as a means for the fullest development of the powers of the interindividual process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46749]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still,  Out-topping knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still,  Out-topping knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and a nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chilled hidebound hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gives us the very quintessence of perception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46059]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gives us the very quintessence of perception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vertue of a coward is suspition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vertue of a coward is suspition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18922]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centres of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing, thou elder brother e'en to shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing, thou elder brother e'en to shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17646]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science) [Lat., Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science) [Lat., Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66583]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were leading Toms River South after the first quarter. It was a depth thing. They had the depth and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29500]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were leading Toms River South after the first quarter. It was a depth thing. They had the depth and were fresh in the third quarter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4090]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.  His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.  His cares must still be double to his joys,   In any dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. -Prof. Ludwig ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. -Prof. Ludwig Wittgenstein.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boy, when you are dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boy, when you are dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a god dam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you are dead? Nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more blessed to give than to receive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5743]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more blessed to give than to receive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11859]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53176]]></link><description><![CDATA[RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35738]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65280]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves. -Kahlil Gilbran.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52750]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty, all-powerful money gives them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50222]]></link><description><![CDATA[For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty, all-powerful money gives them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools admire, but men of sense approve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools admire, but men of sense approve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/820]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made a mistake by going into the ring, but it was his nephew, and this hooligan (Judah) -- that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30303]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made a mistake by going into the ring, but it was his nephew, and this hooligan (Judah) -- that's what he is, a hooligan -- committed these very flagrant fouls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30303</guid></item></channel></rss>