<?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[Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The result has been a lack of trust and the situation has deteriorated instead of improving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The result has been a lack of trust and the situation has deteriorated instead of improving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not any hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient Stimulus to be creative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warre makes theeves, and peace hangs them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warre makes theeves, and peace hangs them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either he is naive, or he thinks people are stupid! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either he is naive, or he thinks people are stupid!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no law more just, than that he, who plots death, should perish by his own craft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50783]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no law more just, than that he, who plots death, should perish by his own craft.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48230]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a clear message addressed to the journalists in order to [dissuade] them from criticizing the authorities. It's obvious that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29422]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a clear message addressed to the journalists in order to [dissuade] them from criticizing the authorities. It's obvious that referring to terms like territorial integrity, religious hostility, violence, the [Uzbek] authorities mean that they are afraid [of] another riot or revolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47224]]></link><description><![CDATA[To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that my greatest difficulty and the really most painful and difficult part of my work is draining and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30986]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that my greatest difficulty and the really most painful and difficult part of my work is draining and ridding my mind of that burden of meanings which I've absorbed through the culture-things that seem to have something to do with art but don't have anything to do with art at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just unreal. I get 53 miles per gallon and it still hurts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just unreal. I get 53 miles per gallon and it still hurts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. - Agricola. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27905]]></link><description><![CDATA[It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. - Agricola.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste: Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste: Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The magic of a face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14855]]></link><description><![CDATA[The magic of a face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given Japan's shaky political and financial situation, the market will continue to produce such knee-jerk reactions to stock movements in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given Japan's shaky political and financial situation, the market will continue to produce such knee-jerk reactions to stock movements in the U.S..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadness is also a kind of defence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sadness is also a kind of defence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24622]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A theme is a memory aid, it helps you through the presentation just as it also provides the thread of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27756]]></link><description><![CDATA[A theme is a memory aid, it helps you through the presentation just as it also provides the thread of continuity for your audience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He jests at scars that never felt a wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51470]]></link><description><![CDATA[He jests at scars that never felt a wound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires. . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart, And often took leave; but was loth to part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart, And often took leave; but was loth to part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing is always thinking of titles for records, with some reason behind them, and she just came out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing is always thinking of titles for records, with some reason behind them, and she just came out with the word, which she thought was a good word, a hard word, and since then we've sort of attached loads of meaning to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. Put one little tallow candle in the middle of a large hall, and it will give a good deal of light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist   But if the holy prophets had scruples against separating themselves from the church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist   But if the holy prophets had scruples against separating themselves from the church because of many great misdeeds, not of one man or another but of almost all the people, we claim too much for ourselves if we dare withdraw at once from the communion of the church just because the morals of all do not meet our standard, or even square with the profession of Christian faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For discords make the sweetest airs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43441]]></link><description><![CDATA[For discords make the sweetest airs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52987]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of schools are looking at open source ? budgets come into play here. Microsoft licensing takes a big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42417]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of schools are looking at open source ? budgets come into play here. Microsoft licensing takes a big chunk out of schools budgets. The biggest issue is cost, basically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55766]]></link><description><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family comes first. Maybe that\'s what makes me different from other guys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66852]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family comes first. Maybe that\'s what makes me different from other guys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble rides behind and gallops with him. [Fr., Le chagrin monte en croupe et galope avec lui.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble rides behind and gallops with him. [Fr., Le chagrin monte en croupe et galope avec lui.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['What war?' said the Prime Minister sharply. 'No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61151]]></link><description><![CDATA['What war?' said the Prime Minister sharply. 'No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned,' he said defiantly, 'if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What advice you give, be short. [Lat., Quidquid praecipies esto brevis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/781]]></link><description><![CDATA[What advice you give, be short. [Lat., Quidquid praecipies esto brevis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One eye-witness is better than ten hearsays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50888]]></link><description><![CDATA[One eye-witness is better than ten hearsays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43633]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63348]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sinning is the best part of repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56405]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sinning is the best part of repentance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53387]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had the opportunity to make them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62393</guid></item></channel></rss>