<?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[Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44677]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will stir up the hornets. [Lat., Irritabis crabones.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9969]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will stir up the hornets. [Lat., Irritabis crabones.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Union gives strength. (The Bundle of Sticks 550 BC). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Union gives strength. (The Bundle of Sticks 550 BC).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good temper is an estate for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good temper is an estate for life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9415]]></link><description><![CDATA[All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nesh yonge coweslip bendethe wyth the dewe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nesh yonge coweslip bendethe wyth the dewe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong. [Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong. [Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when students graduate from universities, they are not able to fill the intellectual positions that need to be filled. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when students graduate from universities, they are not able to fill the intellectual positions that need to be filled. They are not capable of generating new ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The notion of terror to overcome terrorism, violence to overcome violence, is counterproductive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The notion of terror to overcome terrorism, violence to overcome violence, is counterproductive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PC;It plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PC;It plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem threw it,I'm sure your pleased too no,Its letter perfect in it's weigh,My checker tolled me sew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good tying the sack before it be full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49577]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good tying the sack before it be full.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course--consist of pilferings from other people's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10210]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course--consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it hurts to look back,m and you're too scared to look ahead, just look beside you and your best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16833]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it hurts to look back,m and you're too scared to look ahead, just look beside you and your best friend will be there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a new Prince, new bondage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a new Prince, new bondage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify -Henry Thoreau. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify -Henry Thoreau.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23010]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27070]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65055]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ISE could buy some of these traditional floor markets that have decent flow, like the Amex. Or it could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ISE could buy some of these traditional floor markets that have decent flow, like the Amex. Or it could be bought by one of the floor-based markets, or an equity market or a futures market, with a big market cap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10014]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It came down in buckets that day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37261]]></link><description><![CDATA[It came down in buckets that day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get Estates may venture more. Little Boats must keep near Shore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get Estates may venture more. Little Boats must keep near Shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore… only the life I have lived… The pain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore… only the life I have lived… The pain now is part of the happiness (then).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47586]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blackout is similar to any side effect of drinking too much such as vomiting or abnormal behavior. The implications ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31723]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blackout is similar to any side effect of drinking too much such as vomiting or abnormal behavior. The implications beyond that are people don't know what they did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human voice is the organ of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human voice is the organ of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53428]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems very unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's physical hunger does not prove that that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8552]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's physical hunger does not prove that that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But surely a man's hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating, and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist. In the same way, though I do not believe (I wish I did) that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will. A man may love a women and not win her; but it would be very odd if the phenomenon called "falling in love" occurred in a sexless world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions are the creative acts of intelligence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions are the creative acts of intelligence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50920]]></link><description><![CDATA[And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief  That thou her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief  That thou her maid art far more fair than she.   Be not her maid, since she is envious.    Her vestal livery is but sick and green,     And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am really proud of the kids. We were not hitting the open shots tonight but we kept fighting and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35395]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am really proud of the kids. We were not hitting the open shots tonight but we kept fighting and still had a chance. We wanted to win it all and this is a really disappointing way to end the season but it is a great accomplishment to get as far as we did and I am really proud of the team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19329]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The families coming up here will be people who want to escape New Orleans and other Gulf Coast areas permanently, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The families coming up here will be people who want to escape New Orleans and other Gulf Coast areas permanently,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52050]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every country has the government it deserves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every country has the government it deserves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44349]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22589]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22589</guid></item></channel></rss>