<?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[We have a facility we'd like filled and you have one you'd like to see stay filled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a facility we'd like filled and you have one you'd like to see stay filled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet.  Answers sometimes are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet.  Answers sometimes are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body yet endures ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body yet endures]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In other circumstances it would not be a very big deal, but I would say the Election Commission was too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35928]]></link><description><![CDATA[In other circumstances it would not be a very big deal, but I would say the Election Commission was too complacent about explaining the changes to the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we see them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we see them in the hand of God, Who dispenses them; when we know that it is our loving Father who abases and distresses us; our sufferings will lose their bitterness and become even a matter of consolation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new statements will have in them a person's earnings over their lifetime, from that very first job they ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39879]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new statements will have in them a person's earnings over their lifetime, from that very first job they ever had, all through their lives,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65850]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3328]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is just chaos with better lighting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17469]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nomura should sow seeds not only in Japan but all across the world. Any hesitation and Japanese banks will steal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nomura should sow seeds not only in Japan but all across the world. Any hesitation and Japanese banks will steal business by joining with overseas firms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53065]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53312]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word once spoken cannot be recalled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50180]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word once spoken cannot be recalled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61991]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26214]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything they did I had seen on film. One of the screens was new. But they didn't have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything they did I had seen on film. One of the screens was new. But they didn't have to do anything different because we didn't stop what they had been doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command. [Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command. [Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25888]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the tyrant of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the tyrant of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment…. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment…. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds,  For the ashes of his fathers   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45796]]></link><description><![CDATA[And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds,  For the ashes of his fathers   And the temples of his gods?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His honesty and sanity were questioned. On his deathbed, he was a bitter person. Unfortunately, he didn't live quite long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38721]]></link><description><![CDATA[His honesty and sanity were questioned. On his deathbed, he was a bitter person. Unfortunately, he didn't live quite long enough to see this rediscovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do home sizes rise when, during the same period, the average family size has declined? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do home sizes rise when, during the same period, the average family size has declined?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59772]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20278]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefsprovide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything,including ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21370]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefsprovide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything,including those things that other people are certain are impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grief of an heir is only masked laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock. [It., Sta come torre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock. [It., Sta come torre ferme, che non crolla  Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lost my son, but at the same time I'm still a staunch supporter of the troops. [They] need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lost my son, but at the same time I'm still a staunch supporter of the troops. [They] need to know that back home we are for them and we are behind them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A witch and a bitch always dress up for each other, because otherwise the witch would upstage the bitch, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8892]]></link><description><![CDATA[A witch and a bitch always dress up for each other, because otherwise the witch would upstage the bitch, or the bitch would upstage the witch, and the result would be havoc]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A miniature like this would have been a love token. The braid of hair has a great deal of intimacy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A miniature like this would have been a love token. The braid of hair has a great deal of intimacy and personal significance for whomever would have owned this miniature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil thoughts often come from idleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil thoughts often come from idleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18486]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a surplus of natural gas in inventories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39173]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a surplus of natural gas in inventories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if there is any issue that they would feel strongly enough to take. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32888]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if there is any issue that they would feel strongly enough to take.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32888</guid></item></channel></rss>