<?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[A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1860]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances beyond my individual control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances beyond my individual control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47719]]></link><description><![CDATA[To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5670]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it. [Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it. [Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60407]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62230]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52364]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23887]]></link><description><![CDATA[My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . . with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in the contemplation of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in the contemplation of the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the camelauction slaughterhousethe camel lotthe rejected creaturessee no Camelot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24995]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the camelauction slaughterhousethe camel lotthe rejected creaturessee no Camelot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have received the resignation letter from Duran, effective on August 31, and today the president designated Carlos Marin to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28969]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have received the resignation letter from Duran, effective on August 31, and today the president designated Carlos Marin to be acting United States commissioner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   Thus was the Cross of Christ, in St. Paul's day, the glory of Christians; not as it signified their not being ashamed to own a master that was crucified, but as it signified their glorying in a religion which was nothing else but a doctrine of the Cross that called them to the same suffering spirit, the same sacrifice of themselves, the same renunciation of the world, the same humility and meekness, the same patient bearing of injuries, reproaches and contempts, and the same dying to all the greatness, honours, and happiness of this world, which Christ showed on the Cross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16641]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I sell liquor, its called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13012]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I sell liquor, its called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17124]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the Social Democrats that did not want German reunification. It was the Christian Democrats who supported German reunification. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33694]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the Social Democrats that did not want German reunification. It was the Christian Democrats who supported German reunification.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/984]]></link><description><![CDATA[We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61075]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder is the basis of worship ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder is the basis of worship]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My glass is not large, but I drink from my glass. [Fr., Mon verre n'est pas grand, mais je bois ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62335]]></link><description><![CDATA[My glass is not large, but I drink from my glass. [Fr., Mon verre n'est pas grand, mais je bois dans mon verre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57474]]></link><description><![CDATA[There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Add a few drops of malice to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Add a few drops of malice to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are too sarcastic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50832]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are too sarcastic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the dog has the temperament, and the owner has the drive, then those are the starting blocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30011]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the dog has the temperament, and the owner has the drive, then those are the starting blocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will require school districts to have a plan on how they will deal with school opening and closing.ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â  It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32381]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will require school districts to have a plan on how they will deal with school opening and closing.ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â  It will require the mayor to have a plan on whether or not they're going to ask the theaters not to have a movie, et cetera.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55083]]></link><description><![CDATA[SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This drug has a very high likelihood of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35450]]></link><description><![CDATA[This drug has a very high likelihood of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's teaching them that they can save up their money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31152]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's teaching them that they can save up their money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50838]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Microsoft's omnipresence was apparent at the show in statements from executives of open source companies.] Microsoft is the largest software ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40464]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Microsoft's omnipresence was apparent at the show in statements from executives of open source companies.] Microsoft is the largest software company in the world. They are our competition, ... The day when they're not the competition is when we'll stop talking about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23533]]></link><description><![CDATA[So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People read books and they find a new world that can change their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66101]]></link><description><![CDATA[People read books and they find a new world that can change their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57379]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. [Fr., L'exemple est un dangereux leurre; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. [Fr., L'exemple est un dangereux leurre;  Ou la guepe a passe, le moucheron demeure.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16476]]></link><description><![CDATA[God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sent Burns, trying to force them to make the play. They made a good baseball play. It was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38018]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sent Burns, trying to force them to make the play. They made a good baseball play. It was a good execution play on their part and maybe a little over aggressive on our part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38018</guid></item></channel></rss>