<?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[Historians are prophets with their face turned backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go West, young man! Go West. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go West, young man! Go West.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody can be great.Because anybody can serve..You only need a heart full of grace.A soul generated by love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody can be great.Because anybody can serve..You only need a heart full of grace.A soul generated by love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44307]]></link><description><![CDATA[It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's happening in North Port because there's a lot of new construction going on. It's going to happen there for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40440]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's happening in North Port because there's a lot of new construction going on. It's going to happen there for a while until there is in-fill or more neighborhoods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26789]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1463]]></link><description><![CDATA[A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the suites of Davos to the streets of Seattle, there is a growing consensus that globalization must now be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17530]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the suites of Davos to the streets of Seattle, there is a growing consensus that globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are coming to the market because they want to have some fair values on which to basically try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37002]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are coming to the market because they want to have some fair values on which to basically try to consolidate in the future,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is never where virtue is not. [Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is never where virtue is not. [Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born  With nowhere yet to rest my head, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born  With nowhere yet to rest my head,   Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quarreling is like cutting water with a sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quarreling is like cutting water with a sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can observe a lot just by watching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44778]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can observe a lot just by watching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4408]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45205]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the summer night Has a smile of light  And she sits on a sapphire throne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the summer night Has a smile of light  And she sits on a sapphire throne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47029]]></link><description><![CDATA[The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've been unwilling to sell to date, and I don't see what would have changed their mind at this point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38451]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've been unwilling to sell to date, and I don't see what would have changed their mind at this point in the game. You could make the argument that they are in turnaround, and selling now might be at the bottom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For truth is precious and divine; Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59816]]></link><description><![CDATA[For truth is precious and divine; Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One lesson that we might draw from this incident is that we shouldn't be asking so many questions of jurors. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28729]]></link><description><![CDATA[One lesson that we might draw from this incident is that we shouldn't be asking so many questions of jurors. Maybe we should just be asking if they have ever been convicted of a crime, that we ought to know. But, do we really need to know about every arrest and every civil lawsuit and what television programs they watch?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the key to contentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the key to contentment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that stands upon a slippery place Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. -King John. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55793]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that stands upon a slippery place Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are my honey, honeysuckle, I am the bee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3902]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are my honey, honeysuckle, I am the bee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel,  Whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel,  Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are poor men's riches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are poor men's riches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47506]]></link><description><![CDATA[This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers  Round the day's dead sanctities.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers  Round the day's dead sanctities.   I laughed in the morning's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52220]]></link><description><![CDATA[When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65520]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55829]]></link><description><![CDATA[As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious. -King Richard II. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61530]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55155]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10687</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[A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the search proves more profitable than the goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44222]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If small businesses want to buy the high-cost option and they can afford it, great. If they don't, why can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29054]]></link><description><![CDATA[If small businesses want to buy the high-cost option and they can afford it, great. If they don't, why can you not offer them lower-cost options?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29054</guid></item></channel></rss>