<?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[Wishing, of all employments is the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wishing, of all employments is the worst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are charging customers to sell to them. To me that seems like an inefficient model. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40460]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are charging customers to sell to them. To me that seems like an inefficient model.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53075]]></link><description><![CDATA[In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can refute a sneer? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can refute a sneer?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This picture, plac'd the busts between Gives Satire all its strength;  Wisdom and Wit are little seen   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14058]]></link><description><![CDATA[This picture, plac'd the busts between Gives Satire all its strength;  Wisdom and Wit are little seen   While Folly glares at length.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16363]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63658]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52525]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49330]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what\'s right . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63960]]></link><description><![CDATA[True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what\'s right .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22569]]></link><description><![CDATA[No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind, he hears Time's iron gates close faintly, He is now far from them;  For he has reached the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind, he hears Time's iron gates close faintly, He is now far from them;  For he has reached the city of the saintly,   The New Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18932]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends. [Lat., Qui salubrem locum negligit, mente est captus atque ad agnatos et gentiles deducendus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real power comes out of a long rifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real power comes out of a long rifle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise her but for this her without-door form-- Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight  The shrug, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise her but for this her without-door form-- Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight  The shrug, the hum or ha, these pretty brands   That calumny doth use--O, I am out,    That mercy does, for calumny will sear     Virtue itself--these shrugs, these hums and ha's,      When you have said she's goodly, come between       Ere you can say she's honest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10378]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time we got a camera it was gone, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30709]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time we got a camera it was gone,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56344]]></link><description><![CDATA[A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone exits your life, let them go with class and style. They mattered, if only for a little while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62933]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone exits your life, let them go with class and style. They mattered, if only for a little while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. [It., Non mancano pretesti quando si vuole.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. [It., Non mancano pretesti quando si vuole.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58423]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is learning what to overlook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is learning what to overlook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Behold,  "There is a God," thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Behold,  "There is a God," thou sayest. Thou sayest well:   In that thou sayest all. To Be is more    Of wonderful, than being, to have wrought,     Or reigned, or rested.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do nothing twice over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do nothing twice over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24156]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27290]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31354]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The success of competing formats depends on the availability of content. If the content from Hollywood studios is only available ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The success of competing formats depends on the availability of content. If the content from Hollywood studios is only available in one of the blue laser formats, then I don't see the other technologies being successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60325]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't fire weapons in urban areas. It is an urban area. Certainly there are places in Davidson County that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33720]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't fire weapons in urban areas. It is an urban area. Certainly there are places in Davidson County that are extensively wooded. There also are large open fields in Davidson County. I would refer to that area in Bellevue at the movie theater as an urban area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not and should not be a target of terrorists but we are alert for any possibilities, ... We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28259]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not and should not be a target of terrorists but we are alert for any possibilities, ... We have not done anything to make people hate us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17701]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The water is just too bad. The salvage company hired by the insurance is going to take over now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The water is just too bad. The salvage company hired by the insurance is going to take over now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China should fully use big countries' market advantages and positively increase domestic demand, especially the consumption of urban and rural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36621]]></link><description><![CDATA[China should fully use big countries' market advantages and positively increase domestic demand, especially the consumption of urban and rural citizens in the coming years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All colors will agree in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48123]]></link><description><![CDATA[All colors will agree in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to astate of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22093]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to astate of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions ofincompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability tocreate. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completiondate, then do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A harmless necessary cat. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55600]]></link><description><![CDATA[A harmless necessary cat. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56828]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the job of the coaching staff to turn that into a positive. We're in this for the long run. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40928]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the job of the coaching staff to turn that into a positive. We're in this for the long run. This isn't a sprint; it's a marathon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2742</guid></item></channel></rss>