<?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[The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither accorded him a superior status to sustain his confidence nor made it easy for him to acquire an unquestioned sense of social usefulness. For he derives his sense of usefulness mainly from directing, instructing, and planning- from minding other people's business- and is bound to feel superfluous and neglected where people believe themselves competent to manage individual and communal affairs, and are impatient of supervision and regulation. A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's sense of worth. Any social order that can function with a minimum of leadership will be anathema to the intellectual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17043]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52726]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trees of liferandomly growbut the graves of Arlingtonare set in rows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trees of liferandomly growbut the graves of Arlingtonare set in rows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A multinational company operating in Canada will have to have dozens and dozens of contracts with everybody who supplies them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32867]]></link><description><![CDATA[A multinational company operating in Canada will have to have dozens and dozens of contracts with everybody who supplies them with any personal information, including their own subsidiaries,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24728]]></link><description><![CDATA[He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew coming in that in order for us to win this game, we would have to get rebounds, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28891]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew coming in that in order for us to win this game, we would have to get rebounds, and to hold the ball on offense. The less possessions they had, the better off we were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28891</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[A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56884]]></link><description><![CDATA[A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15795]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in the cultural field. By frustrating the scribe's craving for commanding action, the trader draws upon himself the scribe's wrath and scorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes vision and courage to create--it takes faith and courage to prove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10352]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes vision and courage to create--it takes faith and courage to prove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of the college towns that we operate in in the Lower 48 do this every year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of the college towns that we operate in in the Lower 48 do this every year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Property has its duties as well as its rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Property has its duties as well as its rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you read those petitions, some of them cry out that something very bad occurred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36948]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you read those petitions, some of them cry out that something very bad occurred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an increase, but it's not a huge increase. It's still in line with other (area) marinas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31710]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an increase, but it's not a huge increase. It's still in line with other (area) marinas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is going to be an interesting budget year. It'll all work out ... but it may be that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29336]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is going to be an interesting budget year. It'll all work out ... but it may be that we just meet our needs this year and do fewer wants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11190]]></link><description><![CDATA[We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your neighbor is the man who needs you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your neighbor is the man who needs you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love those who yearn for the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65921]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love those who yearn for the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28485]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't know if this will be the shareholders' choice, or a political choice. For the steel industry, this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42677]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't know if this will be the shareholders' choice, or a political choice. For the steel industry, this is Microsoft buying Apple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive away ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive away]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of life is that it stops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of life is that it stops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest  That best becomes the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest  That best becomes the table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52920]]></link><description><![CDATA[To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20612]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than bytheir understandings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than bytheir understandings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60226]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency to work up a subjective state which, if we succeeded, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8549]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency to work up a subjective state which, if we succeeded, we should describe as "faith", with the idea that this will somehow ensure the granting of our prayer. We have probably all done this as children. But the state of mind which desperate desire working on a strong imagination can manufacture is not faith in the Christian sense. It is a feat of psychological gymnastics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That, Your Excellency, is precisely the problem. As long as we are buying Russian oil, we are at their mercy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29715]]></link><description><![CDATA[That, Your Excellency, is precisely the problem. As long as we are buying Russian oil, we are at their mercy. Japan must have its own resources.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I praise loudly, I blame softly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4300]]></link><description><![CDATA[I praise loudly, I blame softly]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54864]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57466]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't forthe government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21551]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't forthe government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee?  Fed with nourishment divine,   The dewy morning's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee?  Fed with nourishment divine,   The dewy morning's gentle wine!    Nature waits upon thee still,     And thy verdant cup does fill;      'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread,       Nature's self's thy Ganymede.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62343]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27893]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure friendship's well-feigned blush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Withdraw yourself from that vile bondage; Come say, "I am free," "I am free." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Withdraw yourself from that vile bondage; Come say, "I am free," "I am free."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48408]]></link><description><![CDATA[For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43451</guid></item></channel></rss>