<?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[When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3338]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes! - 1997.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16909]]></link><description><![CDATA[People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61772]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I'm no expert on the word I can't qoute you chapter and verse But I've heard you love the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48412]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I'm no expert on the word I can't qoute you chapter and verse But I've heard you love the worst ones too And I'm the proof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't think that, as proposed, this is a workable approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't think that, as proposed, this is a workable approach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2822]]></link><description><![CDATA[By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9313]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27777]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16561]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a specialty store, so we try and bring in the stuff that no one else has or that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36532]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a specialty store, so we try and bring in the stuff that no one else has or that is hard to find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  It is vain for bishops and pious bigwigs to discuss ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  It is vain for bishops and pious bigwigs to discuss what dreadful things will happen if wild skepticism runs its course. It has run its course. It is vain for eloquent atheists to talk of the great truths that will be revealed if once we see free thought begin. We have seen it end. It has no more questions to ask; it has questioned itself. You cannot call up any wilder vision than a city in which men ask themselves if they have any selves. You cannot fancy a more skeptical world than that in which men doubt whether there is a world. It might certainly have reached its bankruptcy more quickly and cleanly if it had not been feebly hampered by the application of indefensible laws of blasphemy or by the absurd pretense that modern England is Christian. But it would have reached the bankruptcy anyhow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the world -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28233]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the world -- he also has a political agenda, he is using this terrorism for political ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It really has no bearing on any decisions. Coaching and playing is all we can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38255]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really has no bearing on any decisions. Coaching and playing is all we can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you steal ideas from one source, that's plagiarism, but if you steal ideas from more than one source, that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20284]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you steal ideas from one source, that's plagiarism, but if you steal ideas from more than one source, that's research.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46577]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed to call himself a physician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23533]]></link><description><![CDATA[So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44967]]></link><description><![CDATA[With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63920]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're playing around eight or nine guys per game. We have no big numbers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35272]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're playing around eight or nine guys per game. We have no big numbers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the contact, ... After I run them over the first time, they start going for the legs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the contact, ... After I run them over the first time, they start going for the legs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last night I had a revelationSomehow I have to make you payIt's all about manipulationAnd what it takes to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last night I had a revelationSomehow I have to make you payIt's all about manipulationAnd what it takes to get my wayI don't believe in soft solutionsNo one makes a fool of meWithout receiving retributionNo one hurts me and goes freeI'll play on your fears, I'll leave you in tearsYou'll never be the same, my friendYou're walking a line, it's a matter of timeYou'll never rest easy againI've got the power to bring you downI've heard it said, to err is humanIt's forgiveness that's divineI thought about forgiving you, butI want revenge, I want what's mineI think it's time to settle scores nowIt's time to set the record straightYou'll know it's coming, you won't know howOr when, you'll have to watch and waitI'll play on your fears, I'll leave you in tearsYou'll never be the same, my friendYou're walking a line, it's a matter of timeYou'll never rest easy againI've got the power to bring you downYou know, it feels intoxicatingTo be intimidatingIt's invigoratingTo see you shakingI've got the power to bring you downYou know something, you see it coming, You know I will stop at nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16805]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24405]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16643]]></link><description><![CDATA[All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a small star shines in the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a small star shines in the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wish for death is a coward's part. [Lat., Timidi est optare necem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10492]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wish for death is a coward's part. [Lat., Timidi est optare necem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46099]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anothers bread costs deare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anothers bread costs deare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can serve two masters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26229]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can serve two masters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49352]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can find my biography in every fable that I read ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can find my biography in every fable that I read]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wisest he in this whole wide land Of hoarding till bent and gray;  For all you can hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17450]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wisest he in this whole wide land Of hoarding till bent and gray;  For all you can hold in your cold, dead hand   Is what you have given away.    . . . .     He gave with a zest and he gave his best;      Give him the best to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17450</guid></item></channel></rss>