<?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[Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34305]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of every individual man should be a Bible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of every individual man should be a Bible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self and begin a new life. They try to realize this desire either by finding a new identity or by blurring and camouflaging their individual distinctness; and both these ends are reached by imitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Horse made, and a man to make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49037]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Horse made, and a man to make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45547]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here comes the lady. O, so light a foot Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here comes the lady. O, so light a foot Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45942]]></link><description><![CDATA[But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that lives well sees a farre off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49375]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that lives well sees a farre off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's give the individual the space to grow, instead of the economy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's give the individual the space to grow, instead of the economy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the solution is simple, God is answering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24426]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the solution is simple, God is answering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will be the best all-around boxing card ever here in Los Angeles, ... The prices of the card are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30304]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will be the best all-around boxing card ever here in Los Angeles, ... The prices of the card are affordable. They appeal to the ordinary boxing fan here in Los Angeles. You will not see tickets for $1000. Fans who love boxing can purchase tickets as low as $25. Over half the tickets are $50 and less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put  His violent Engins ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put  His violent Engins on the vicious member,   Bringeth his Patient in a senseless slumber,    And grief-less then (guided by use and art),     To save the whole, sawes off th' infected part.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a method in man's wickedness, It grows up by degrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61536]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a method in man's wickedness, It grows up by degrees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The school decided to cancel the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37730]]></link><description><![CDATA[The school decided to cancel the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the dreams, Children of night, of indigestion bred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the dreams, Children of night, of indigestion bred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amongst good men two men suffice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amongst good men two men suffice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear  As will disperse itself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear  As will disperse itself through all the veins   That the life-weary taker may fall dead,    And that the trunk may be discharged of breath     As violently as hasty powder fired      Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9474]]></link><description><![CDATA[An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32084]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30126]]></link><description><![CDATA[the best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our words from loose using have lost their edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63428]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our words from loose using have lost their edge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do all things if he but wills them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40633]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do all things if he but wills them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52560]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I 'd set my ten commandments in your face. -King Henry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I 'd set my ten commandments in your face. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This shows that criminals are attempting to stay ahead of the game by trying to evade detection at British ports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37840]]></link><description><![CDATA[This shows that criminals are attempting to stay ahead of the game by trying to evade detection at British ports.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall assume that what each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but by pictures made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51995]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall assume that what each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but by pictures made by himself or given to him. If his atlas tells him the world is flat he will not sail near what he believes to be the edge of our planet for fear of falling off. If his maps include a fountain of eternal youth, a Ponce de Leon will go off in quest of it. If someone digs up yellow dirt that looks like gold, he will for a time act exactly as if he has found gold. The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do. It does not determine what they will achieve. It determines their effort, their feelings, their hopes, not their accomplishments and results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60646]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics stupidity is not a handicap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46918]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics stupidity is not a handicap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislike being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislike being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy. Although in the industrial world bottled water is often no healthier than tap water, it can cost up to 10,000 times more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were trying to take the middle away -- and the post -- and they just had too many guys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37461]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were trying to take the middle away -- and the post -- and they just had too many guys that [could] go to the boards. We just didn't have enough size for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't play for safety-it's the most dangerous thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't play for safety-it's the most dangerous thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22443</guid></item></channel></rss>