<?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[There is thy gold--worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world,  Than these poor compounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4912]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is thy gold--worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world,  Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.   I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none    Farewell. Buy food and get thyself in flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58135]]></link><description><![CDATA[One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First things first, second things never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3950]]></link><description><![CDATA[First things first, second things never.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44906]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58183]]></link><description><![CDATA[If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24522]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As our cooperation with the IAEA is on the right track, I believe the report will be positive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35723]]></link><description><![CDATA[As our cooperation with the IAEA is on the right track, I believe the report will be positive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To be honest, most of the time we talked about life and other different things. It was really a wonderful time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15013]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody remembers Ironton in its heyday in the '40s and '50s, that's when Ironton was booming and we've gone downhill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody remembers Ironton in its heyday in the '40s and '50s, that's when Ironton was booming and we've gone downhill, and we have, we've hit rock bottom, ... But if we all don't stand together, we're not going to stand back up. It's going to take all of us to put it back on track.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd been playing a lot lately and there was nothing on the line. It was kind of a practice round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30430]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd been playing a lot lately and there was nothing on the line. It was kind of a practice round and the kids had more of a free-swinging attitude. Some guys ballooned up a little and some played well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,  May I express thee unblam'd? since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,  May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light   And never but in unapproached light    Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee,     Bright effluence of bright essence increate!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["When I am white I win because I am white. When I am black I win because I am Bogoljubov ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5859]]></link><description><![CDATA["When I am white I win because I am white. When I am black I win because I am Bogoljubov]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where may the wearied eye repose, When gazing on the Great;  Where neither guilty glory glows,   Nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where may the wearied eye repose, When gazing on the Great;  Where neither guilty glory glows,   Nor despicable state?    Yes--one the first, the last, the best,     The Cincinnatus of the West      Whom envy dared not hate,       Bequeathed the name of Washington        To make man blush; there was but one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we mixed up our defensive scheme a lot. That kind of caused some confusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we mixed up our defensive scheme a lot. That kind of caused some confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14715]]></link><description><![CDATA[You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They gave me their name, which was fake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30498]]></link><description><![CDATA[They gave me their name, which was fake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45619]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have nots" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59942]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All currency is neurotic currency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15826]]></link><description><![CDATA[All currency is neurotic currency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24248]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, "What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of these companies are privately owned, and they now reach a point in their evolution where they grow to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of these companies are privately owned, and they now reach a point in their evolution where they grow to the point where they may lose family control of the business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14206]]></link><description><![CDATA[From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Move on!It's just a chapter in the past! But don't close the book,just turn the page.... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Move on!It's just a chapter in the past! But don't close the book,just turn the page....]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it 'dull' that Jesse James once got bitten on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it 'dull' that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant, and at first it didn't seem like anything, but then the bite got worse and worse, so he went to a doctor in town, and the secretary told him to wait, so he sat down and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and then finally he got to see the doctor, and the doctor put some salve on it? You call that dull?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make aliving. The other should teach us how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21092]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make aliving. The other should teach us how to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58524]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't view this as the start of a weaker trend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't view this as the start of a weaker trend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Let us go and wake up the universe... and sing His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Let us go and wake up the universe... and sing His praises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26166]]></link><description><![CDATA[To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62593]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free;  Whom neither hopes deceive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free;  Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment,   But lives at peace, within himself content;    In thought, or act, accountable to none     But to himself, and to the gods alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was our extra scorer a lot. She's just really competitive. She was our outside threat. And we won a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39758]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was our extra scorer a lot. She's just really competitive. She was our outside threat. And we won a couple of games with her shooting free throws down the stretch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23906]]></link><description><![CDATA[MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the vile squeaking of the wry-necked fife. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55577]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the vile squeaking of the wry-necked fife. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition; there are times when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58349]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition; there are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58349</guid></item></channel></rss>