<?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[Knowing as "the man in the street" (as we call him as Newmarket) always does, the greatest secrets of kings, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing as "the man in the street" (as we call him as Newmarket) always does, the greatest secrets of kings, and being the confidant of their most hidden thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53654]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest flattery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest flattery]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58892]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On painting and fighting looke aloofe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49682]]></link><description><![CDATA[On painting and fighting looke aloofe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it's time to expand beyond the operational people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it's time to expand beyond the operational people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd  The ploughboy's whistle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54586]]></link><description><![CDATA[How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd  The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relationships based on obligation lack dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of large trunks filled with Enron documents were sent [to] Andersen's main Houston office to be shredded,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19689]]></link><description><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53056]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18813]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little weunderstand about life, ourselves, and the world around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22758]]></link><description><![CDATA[True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little weunderstand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24516]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54212]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.   - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50452]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49814]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He may step into sensitive areas that could harm the security of the US Government or other countries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42215]]></link><description><![CDATA[He may step into sensitive areas that could harm the security of the US Government or other countries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23370]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41423]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona... I understand what it is to be vulnerable, and I understand what it is to be strong. So anybody who bashes 'sentimental' is missing it. I've seen the toughest guys in the world cry. That macho thing is an old folktale. I'm not afraid of it at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2205]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words pay no debts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words pay no debts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[because the hole is down in the ground, not up in the air. My father always told me, 'You ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35603]]></link><description><![CDATA[because the hole is down in the ground, not up in the air. My father always told me, 'You ought to play basketball, where the hole is way up there.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17549]]></link><description><![CDATA[No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a new concept in this state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39728]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a new concept in this state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale, And sing enamour'd of the nut-brown maid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale, And sing enamour'd of the nut-brown maid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to make something a real challenge that took time and effort, so we said, 'Let's swim 100 miles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33780]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to make something a real challenge that took time and effort, so we said, 'Let's swim 100 miles in a weekend,']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24559]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51904]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As ourselves your empires fall, And every kingdom hath a grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54467]]></link><description><![CDATA[As ourselves your empires fall, And every kingdom hath a grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43822]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43822</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[Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek then in vain by the meadow and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek then in vain by the meadow and stream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see this as an indictment of Germany at all. I think the reason you're seeing these cases is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see this as an indictment of Germany at all. I think the reason you're seeing these cases is that Germany is so determined to get these people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been a preference in Germany and France for fillers on the right. But research in the United States ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28666]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been a preference in Germany and France for fillers on the right. But research in the United States has not shown a preference strong enough to affect buying decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22918]]></link><description><![CDATA[He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This competition highlights the strengths of the new system. You can have rankings but still have people be very close. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30053]]></link><description><![CDATA[This competition highlights the strengths of the new system. You can have rankings but still have people be very close. The new system allows for unpredictability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30053</guid></item></channel></rss>