<?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 chiefs contend only for their place of burial. [Lat., Ducibus tantum de funere pugna est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chiefs contend only for their place of burial. [Lat., Ducibus tantum de funere pugna est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here we will sit and let the sounds of music Creep in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55614]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here we will sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There 's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had a clear idea about what I really wanted to see, based on our initial conversations, and they did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33323]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had a clear idea about what I really wanted to see, based on our initial conversations, and they did a great job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it\'s sitting down making a quilt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it\'s sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64334]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In T-1, our goal was to repeat with the Corvette, and get the Viper and Andrew up there. In T-2 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38188]]></link><description><![CDATA[In T-1, our goal was to repeat with the Corvette, and get the Viper and Andrew up there. In T-2 with the Subaru, we wanted to win division and national championships.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can play about anything, but I gotta get it all rigged where I could get to it, you know, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can play about anything, but I gotta get it all rigged where I could get to it, you know, so I can play it all at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when eve's silent footfall steals Along the eastern sky,  And one by one to earth reveals   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14255]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when eve's silent footfall steals Along the eastern sky,  And one by one to earth reveals   Those purer fires on high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17280]]></link><description><![CDATA[All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10578]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963   The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are going to see a winter pattern, it should happen soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40400]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are going to see a winter pattern, it should happen soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show  I am not in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9612]]></link><description><![CDATA[These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show  I am not in the roll of common men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11021]]></link><description><![CDATA[O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago;  The schoolmaster over the land is advancing,   Then why is the master of dancing so slow?    It is such a bore to be always caught tripping     In dull uniformity year after year;      Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping:       I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56221]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give Me Strength! A petition no doubt directed at our Creator above, these words are uttered in times of complete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give Me Strength! A petition no doubt directed at our Creator above, these words are uttered in times of complete exasperation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27676]]></link><description><![CDATA[In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man will work for your interests unless they are his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22460]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man will work for your interests unless they are his.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are at your best everybody can be your friend, but when you are at your worst only the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63075]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are at your best everybody can be your friend, but when you are at your worst only the true ones stay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65833]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10932]]></link><description><![CDATA[No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52168]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though little fire grows great with little wind, Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though little fire grows great with little wind, Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43689]]></link><description><![CDATA[No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the wooing That is not long a-doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the wooing That is not long a-doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thee anger, in which a person can hold, Only shows the true fear with in! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thee anger, in which a person can hold, Only shows the true fear with in!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,  As if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6126]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,  As if Theocritus in Sicily   Had come upon the Figure crucified,    And lost his gods in deep, Christ-given rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47346]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinkingand believing. As individuals think and believe, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinkingand believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've trained harder, I'm better, I'm stronger, the blood of a champion runs through my veins, I've earned this opportunity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40331]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've trained harder, I'm better, I'm stronger, the blood of a champion runs through my veins, I've earned this opportunity, I'll earn this victory, I've already won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were playing hardball and almost twisting their arm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33020]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were playing hardball and almost twisting their arm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy is he who bears a god within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy is he who bears a god within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52157</guid></item></channel></rss>