<?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[Sanity - that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanity - that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1936]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to urge all system builders ? indeed, all Partners ? not to supply naked PCs. It is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42596]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to urge all system builders ? indeed, all Partners ? not to supply naked PCs. It is a risk to your customers and a risk to your business ? with specifically 5 percent fewer opportunities to market software and services.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My nearest And dearest enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13858]]></link><description><![CDATA[My nearest And dearest enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50267]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. •Otto Von Bismarck  Peace with a club in hand is war. •Portuguese Proverb   The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. •Bernard Mannes Baruch  The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. •Chinese Proverb   Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61160</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[Anywhere I go, no matter where he's at, I never had a chance to beat him before. This is my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anywhere I go, no matter where he's at, I never had a chance to beat him before. This is my first time beating him, and it feels great my senior year to beat Spurrier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is great; but silence is greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is great; but silence is greater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At that time we could not use the federal government's marijuana to show that it might be beneficial because NIDA ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33824]]></link><description><![CDATA[At that time we could not use the federal government's marijuana to show that it might be beneficial because NIDA has a mandate from Congress that they could only supply marijuana for research to show that it might be dangerous. Subsequently NIDA has changed their mechanism so we can look for benefit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5427]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To apprehend thus Draws us a profit from all things we see,  And often, to our comfort, shall we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3917]]></link><description><![CDATA[To apprehend thus Draws us a profit from all things we see,  And often, to our comfort, shall we find   The sharded beetle in a safer hold    Than is the full-winged eagle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We drink VB, Victoria Bitter, which is way better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30697]]></link><description><![CDATA[We drink VB, Victoria Bitter, which is way better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17632]]></link><description><![CDATA[My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing that crossed my mind was he had a heart problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39562]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing that crossed my mind was he had a heart problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your bounty is beyond my speaking; But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your bounty is beyond my speaking; But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pools, that are used by people as they are meant to be used, are not making them (casinos) any money. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pools, that are used by people as they are meant to be used, are not making them (casinos) any money. We can offer a casino a revenue enhancement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be cautious as to what you say of men, and to whom you speak it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be cautious as to what you say of men, and to whom you speak it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24557]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenerynever changes. (Perhaps Cy Burnett). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenerynever changes. (Perhaps Cy Burnett).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27230]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14214]]></link><description><![CDATA[With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot flea a stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50129]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot flea a stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have never intended to 'cut into the pie' of funding for Indian programs and services, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32559]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have never intended to 'cut into the pie' of funding for Indian programs and services,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hitler invaded in March 1938 and everything after that went downhill. My husband was in the concentration camp and everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hitler invaded in March 1938 and everything after that went downhill. My husband was in the concentration camp and everything was taken - but material values at the time didn't matter one bit. It was only after that it did matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46037]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/669]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule. [Fr., Qui ne s'adventure n'a cheval ny mule, ce dist Salomon.--Qui trop, dist Echephron, s'adventure--perd cheval et mule, respondit Malcon.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with being best man at a wedding is that you never get a chance to prove it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with being best man at a wedding is that you never get a chance to prove it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentlemen do not read each other's mail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots. [Fr., Une natione de singes a larynx de parroquets.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots. [Fr., Une natione de singes a larynx de parroquets.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't do this now people will not be able to recover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29099]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't do this now people will not be able to recover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring in great logs and let them lie To make a solid core of heat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring in great logs and let them lie To make a solid core of heat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oaks with solemnity shook their heads; The twigs of the birch-trees, in token  Of warning, nodded,--and I exclaim'd: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oaks with solemnity shook their heads; The twigs of the birch-trees, in token  Of warning, nodded,--and I exclaim'd:   "Dear Monarch, forgive what I've spoken!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,  As, darkly painted on the crimson ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,  As, darkly painted on the crimson sky,   Thy figure floats along.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run  To death, for dread of death; that soul's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run  To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout,   That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15793]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of "compassion".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All team members know we have a responsibility to get help for guests who ask. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29268]]></link><description><![CDATA[All team members know we have a responsibility to get help for guests who ask.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our patience will achieve more than our force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our patience will achieve more than our force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63334]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enough has... been said to show that the impoverished secularized versions of Christianity which are being urged upon us for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enough has... been said to show that the impoverished secularized versions of Christianity which are being urged upon us for our acceptance today rest not upon a serious application of the methods of scientific scholarship nor upon a serious intuitive appreciation of the Gospels as a whole in their natural context, but upon a radical distaste for the supernatural.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more tears now; I will think about revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54112]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more tears now; I will think about revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54112</guid></item></channel></rss>