<?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[t's just hard to meet new people, in my position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66481]]></link><description><![CDATA[t's just hard to meet new people, in my position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Molly kept house for him when she was older. But when she was younger, she was quite a rakish young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Molly kept house for him when she was older. But when she was younger, she was quite a rakish young woman. She had an affair with a married man in the 1890s that was the talk of Cincinnati.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seek for one as fair and gay, But find none to remind me,  How blest the hours pass'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25607]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seek for one as fair and gay, But find none to remind me,  How blest the hours pass'd away   With the girl I left behind me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a possibilist. I believe that humanity is master of its own fate... Before we can change direction, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a possibilist. I believe that humanity is master of its own fate... Before we can change direction, we have to question many of the assumptions underlying our current philosophy. Assumptions like bigger is better; you can't stop progress; no speed is too fast; globalization is good. Then we have to replace them with some different assumptions: small is beautiful; roots and traditions are worth preserving; variety is the spice of life; the only work worth doing is meaningful work; biodiversity is the necessary pre-condition for human survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the advanced class and periodically I start another beginners class, ... The classes have a feeling of comradery. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28988]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the advanced class and periodically I start another beginners class, ... The classes have a feeling of comradery. They really enjoy the classes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civium in moribus rei publicae salus [The welfare of the state (depends upon) the morals of its citizens] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civium in moribus rei publicae salus [The welfare of the state (depends upon) the morals of its citizens]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that they are in heaven, ... and I know that that's why this movement is growing because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23031]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that they are in heaven, ... and I know that that's why this movement is growing because we have tens of thousands of angels behind us that are supporting us, that are saying, 'Well, you know we died and that was really crappy, but we hope that our deaths are going to make the world a better place,' and it's up to us to make sure that it does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pittifull looke askes enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49067]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pittifull looke askes enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63838]]></link><description><![CDATA[As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32312]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44800]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You always succeed in producing a result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21402]]></link><description><![CDATA[You always succeed in producing a result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things cannot long be hidden the sun, the moon, and the truth. -Confucious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things cannot long be hidden the sun, the moon, and the truth. -Confucious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the world's a stage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51232]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world's a stage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I am off the board I can assure you Philip Riddle and VisitScotland will not have an easy ride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I am off the board I can assure you Philip Riddle and VisitScotland will not have an easy ride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61827]]></link><description><![CDATA[This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't surprise me. A few clubs have looked at him. He's six foot four and he's top drawer. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39684]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't surprise me. A few clubs have looked at him. He's six foot four and he's top drawer. But we've offered him a professional contract and we want to keep him here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never imagined I'd win this much money in one year. All this hasn't soaked in yet. I hope to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42173]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never imagined I'd win this much money in one year. All this hasn't soaked in yet. I hope to do as good as this next year. I'm going to go out, try my hardest and keep that same mind frame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day treads upon the heels of day, and the new moons hasten to their waning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day treads upon the heels of day, and the new moons hasten to their waning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. [Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. [Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blushing is the color of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blushing is the color of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirits run riot in youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirits run riot in youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25979]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47579]]></link><description><![CDATA[As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65795</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[I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1264]]></link><description><![CDATA[My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liar is always lavish of oaths. [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26119]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liar is always lavish of oaths. [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5429]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt like we tried to give it away. We didn't play our best. I told the girls after the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39835]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt like we tried to give it away. We didn't play our best. I told the girls after the game that good teams win even when they don't play their best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The basic demand of young people and of employees is that the law be withdrawn. He has to respond to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35687]]></link><description><![CDATA[The basic demand of young people and of employees is that the law be withdrawn. He has to respond to the people in the street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35687</guid></item></channel></rss>