<?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[He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20896]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it. [Lat., Ingratus est, qui beneficium accepisse se negat, quod accepit: ingratus est, qui dissimulat; ingratus, qui non reddit; ingratissimus omnium, qui oblitus est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, there's a new generation of linens with finishes that don't wrinkle as much, that seem much more organic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39127]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, there's a new generation of linens with finishes that don't wrinkle as much, that seem much more organic, much more natural.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26250]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bury love, Forgetfulness grows over it like grass;  That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16482]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bury love, Forgetfulness grows over it like grass;  That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart--see, they bark at me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart--see, they bark at me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I called them because my car was taken without my permission. My baby was inside of my car and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I called them because my car was taken without my permission. My baby was inside of my car and they turned it around and put it on me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the sources of our troubles, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57886]]></link><description><![CDATA[No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34438]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62592]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  As the devil showed great skill in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  As the devil showed great skill in tempting men to perdition., equal skill ought to be shown in saving them. The devil studied the nature of each man, seized upon the traits of his soul, adjusted himself to them and insinuated himself gradually into his victims's confidence -- suggesting splendors to the ambitious, gain to the covetous, delight to the sensuous, and a false appearance of piety to the pious -- and a winner of souls ought to act in the same cautious and skillful way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66270]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn  And everybody's shouting   "Which Side Are You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn  And everybody's shouting   "Which Side Are You On?"    And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot     Fighting in the captain's tower      While calypso singers laugh at them       And fishermen hold flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8928]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure bought with pain does harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure bought with pain does harm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;  They have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12864]]></link><description><![CDATA[And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;  They have a weight upon our waking thoughts,   They take a weight from off our waking toils,    They do divide our being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is our dependence upon God that we are obliged not only to do everything for His sake, but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is our dependence upon God that we are obliged not only to do everything for His sake, but also to seek from Him the very power. This happy necessity of having recourse to Him in all our wants, instead of being grievous to us, should be our greatest consolation. What a happiness is it that we are allowed to speak to Him with confidence; to open our hearts and hold familiar conversation with him, by prayer! He Himself invites us to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26757]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pay me for my work but I don't do it for the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pay me for my work but I don't do it for the money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not wish to inhibit the artistic merits of our students, but there will be warnings before particularly racy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31630]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not wish to inhibit the artistic merits of our students, but there will be warnings before particularly racy films.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shot the ball very poorly. We had our chances, but we couldn't take advantage of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34445]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shot the ball very poorly. We had our chances, but we couldn't take advantage of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like his parents, Tristan is a fighter and we know they are going to get through this. Although the chemotherapy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like his parents, Tristan is a fighter and we know they are going to get through this. Although the chemotherapy treatment is a good way to bring leukemia into remission, doctors and experts alike have said the best chances of survival lie with a successful bone marrow transplant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58669]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43833]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22991]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a new coach, so we're still working on a lot of things. For our first race together, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37928]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a new coach, so we're still working on a lot of things. For our first race together, it turned out OK.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God loveth the clean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8856]]></link><description><![CDATA[God loveth the clean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who thinks anything of goitre on the Alps? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who thinks anything of goitre on the Alps?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we found was age was a significant predictor in Bt corn adoption. We found as producers get older and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32137]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we found was age was a significant predictor in Bt corn adoption. We found as producers get older and gain experience they are more likely to adopt Bt corn rootworm, but once they reach about age 48 they become less likely to adopt the technology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to bother you guys with a meeting request, so I was hoping you could pass on to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to bother you guys with a meeting request, so I was hoping you could pass on to Karl that Interior is about to approve a gaming compact and land in trust for a tribe which is an anathema to all our supporters down there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56838]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A taste for simplicity cannot last for long. -Eugene Delacroix. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56356]]></link><description><![CDATA[A taste for simplicity cannot last for long. -Eugene Delacroix.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17643]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowed for a time. Now, He's called you home, I'm sad and I shed tears. Yet, I'm glad He loaned you to me and we had these many years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted. [Lat., Nemo unquam sapiens proditori credendum putavit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59639]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted. [Lat., Nemo unquam sapiens proditori credendum putavit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36978</guid></item></channel></rss>