<?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[He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27162]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47425]]></link><description><![CDATA[No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. - "London Times", February 17, 1941.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we keep building mixed-use projects that have retail on the ground floor, every new chunk of retail takes away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36386]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we keep building mixed-use projects that have retail on the ground floor, every new chunk of retail takes away from the demand potential that exists for City Center. We have to cut that out because if you go that way, it's like death by a thousand cuts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;  The ornament ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56555]]></link><description><![CDATA[That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;  The ornament of beauty is suspect,   A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.    So thou be good, slander doth but approve     Thy worth the greater, being wooed of time;      For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love,       And thou present'st a pure unstained prime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21538]]></link><description><![CDATA[No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55840]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60205]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth /the power to love /although I have put it last, is the rarest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13051]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21013]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum,  Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. [Lat., Omnia Graece!  Cum sit turpe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. [Lat., Omnia Graece!  Cum sit turpe magis nostris nescire Latine.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We welcome news of the pope's arrival. It's a good thing -- it will promote good feelings among us all, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28332]]></link><description><![CDATA[We welcome news of the pope's arrival. It's a good thing -- it will promote good feelings among us all, ... After all, it's the pope. He's not just anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is whatever distracts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is whatever distracts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only tyrant I will accept in this world is the "still smallvoice" within me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only tyrant I will accept in this world is the "still smallvoice" within me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The House shewes the owner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The House shewes the owner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From that moment onwards, I was in a position to win. I just had to keep it going because De ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41110]]></link><description><![CDATA[From that moment onwards, I was in a position to win. I just had to keep it going because De Villiers was not far behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day in thy life is a leaf in thy history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day in thy life is a leaf in thy history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54633]]></link><description><![CDATA[No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like Hezekiah's, backward runs The shadow of my days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like Hezekiah's, backward runs The shadow of my days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world  But for supporting robbers--shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4911]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world  But for supporting robbers--shall we now   Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,    And sell the mighty space of our large honors     For so much trash as may be grasped thus?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second disasterous. -Margot Fonteyn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a really innovative idea. I've done concerts for young people all over the world, but I never thought of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33061]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a really innovative idea. I've done concerts for young people all over the world, but I never thought of using the Beatles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49958]]></link><description><![CDATA[There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the odd man out in the family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the odd man out in the family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still don't know much about directing a movie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still don't know much about directing a movie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church-going bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church-going bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In so many ways, the Mets had this game at their fingertips. Anderson had a chance to beat the throw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41863]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In so many ways, the Mets had this game at their fingertips. Anderson had a chance to beat the throw home because Perez double-clutched, but Dodgers catcher Dioner Navarro blocked the plate with his shin guard and would not let Anderson sneak a hand around him.] I didn't have anywhere to go, ... If you have a collision there, you don't know what you're going to get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53751]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are outraged by somebodyÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s impudence, ask yourself at once, ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂCan the world exist without impudent people?ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â It cannot; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41480]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are outraged by somebodyÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s impudence, ask yourself at once, ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂCan the world exist without impudent people?ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60455]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,--nay, it is a very easy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45244]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,--nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't look back, they might be gaining on you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't look back, they might be gaining on you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secrecy is the badge of fraud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secrecy is the badge of fraud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27978]]></link><description><![CDATA[No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although it is still early, we are beginning to notice a negative trend in our weekly revisit rates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although it is still early, we are beginning to notice a negative trend in our weekly revisit rates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not sure people realize how big it is to be at the top of the pyramid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41644]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not sure people realize how big it is to be at the top of the pyramid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41644</guid></item></channel></rss>