<?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 most pleasing thing about the game was to see Gareth come through 30 minutes unscathed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39685]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most pleasing thing about the game was to see Gareth come through 30 minutes unscathed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65070]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise traveller never despises his own country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59575]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise traveller never despises his own country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1251]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51073]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends whom we have lost, the few persons worth of being loved whom we leave behind us, and finally the memory of our stupidities and the assurance that they are now going to stop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are in line to go to the bathroom outside the butler (portable) buildings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are in line to go to the bathroom outside the butler (portable) buildings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In His will is our peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53764]]></link><description><![CDATA[In His will is our peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60615]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17377]]></link><description><![CDATA[And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. [Lat., Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11955]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. [Lat., Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28164]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44252]]></link><description><![CDATA[SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47611]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14803]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It affects the income, no doubt. Most people just want to wait for the good days. But figuring which days ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30005]]></link><description><![CDATA[It affects the income, no doubt. Most people just want to wait for the good days. But figuring which days those are is hard enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65789]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So from that standpoint, it didn't seem weird to me at all. I think it's interesting and obviously audiences do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29445]]></link><description><![CDATA[So from that standpoint, it didn't seem weird to me at all. I think it's interesting and obviously audiences do, too ... I think there is a sort of emptiness in our look at life in general lately, and think this is a way to explore that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43023]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In the slanting sun of late afternoon the shadows of great branches reached across the river, and the trees took the river in their arms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen the future and it is very much like the present, only longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39647]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen the future and it is very much like the present, only longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44163]]></link><description><![CDATA[In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will not be a new target set for eradication of polio. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30809]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will not be a new target set for eradication of polio.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think it hits you when you're in the audience how big a crowd actually is. When we look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think it hits you when you're in the audience how big a crowd actually is. When we look out at Carnegie Hall, we will feel so small in comparison (to the audience). But then you realize you're there because you worked so hard for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47004]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That might be the first time in school history we're 5-0, but I can't say that for sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38579]]></link><description><![CDATA[That might be the first time in school history we're 5-0, but I can't say that for sure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an enormous surprise when they called me last Wednesday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41629]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an enormous surprise when they called me last Wednesday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18146]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have seen Sunshine and rain at once--her smiles and tears  Were like, a better way: those happy smilets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56689]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have seen Sunshine and rain at once--her smiles and tears  Were like, a better way: those happy smilets   That played on her ripe lip seemed not to know    What guests were in her eyes, which parted thence     As pearls from diamonds dropped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man thinks one thing best, another another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48861]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man thinks one thing best, another another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am afraid [if the present trend in Vietnam continues] that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60638]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am afraid [if the present trend in Vietnam continues] that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12479]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is awesome. Everybody gets excited about this. It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37009]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is awesome. Everybody gets excited about this. It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3666]]></link><description><![CDATA[A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may be humble out of pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20027]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may be humble out of pride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was a good deal shock'd; not shock'd at tears, For women shed and use them at their liking;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58787]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was a good deal shock'd; not shock'd at tears, For women shed and use them at their liking;  But there is something when man's eye appears   Wet, still more disagreeable and striking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58787</guid></item></channel></rss>