<?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[The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,  Sweet is pleasure after pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,  Sweet is pleasure after pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47627]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56075]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52275]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on- can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion, even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a new birth for Iraq, a free Iraq. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34810]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a new birth for Iraq, a free Iraq.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53357]]></link><description><![CDATA[An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just can't get there. Maybe they see something we don't see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31191]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just can't get there. Maybe they see something we don't see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59737]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21052]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness is the absence of light.Absences do not exist.Sin does not exist-Rajneesh-(Love's Light is the only reality..says the unified field ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness is the absence of light.Absences do not exist.Sin does not exist-Rajneesh-(Love's Light is the only reality..says the unified field theory of physics..God is the only Doer).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43512]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad ending follows a bad beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54048]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad ending follows a bad beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are the summer showers to the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are the summer showers to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43849]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56213]]></link><description><![CDATA[A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mans discontent is his worst evill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49058]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mans discontent is his worst evill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have asked for his release. But no release has been granted at this point. Right now, he is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36075]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have asked for his release. But no release has been granted at this point. Right now, he is not released from his commitment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,  A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium   Nudus castra peto.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61158]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   The concept of Israel as the chosen people does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   The concept of Israel as the chosen people does not imply a certain divine favoritism, as some seem to think, but an opportunity of grace, a calling that involved the assumption of the servant role among the nations. It was the fact that they had interpreted themselves as special objects of God's favor, and rejected the servant role, that led to their own rejection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work like you don't need the money, Love like you've never been hurt, Dance like nobody's watching, Sing like nobody's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work like you don't need the money, Love like you've never been hurt, Dance like nobody's watching, Sing like nobody's listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56962]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't exaggerate - I just remember big ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17805]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't exaggerate - I just remember big]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or broidered zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was a big part of the team. It was tough on the girls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38649]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was a big part of the team. It was tough on the girls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would not be happening if the race was close or if [Democratic candidate Fernando] Ferrer was winning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35633]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would not be happening if the race was close or if [Democratic candidate Fernando] Ferrer was winning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ooh, that was just a little phase (smashing plates to relieve pain). I don't do that any more but it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ooh, that was just a little phase (smashing plates to relieve pain). I don't do that any more but it was good fun, a release. I recommend it to everybody. That's as long as you're not hurting anybody. And find a place where you're not going to be in the way of anything. Oh and don't destroy anything valuable that you'll regret later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23933]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Nationally), species such as the bald eagle have made a comeback because of targeted efforts. But unlike the federal program, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30526]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Nationally), species such as the bald eagle have made a comeback because of targeted efforts. But unlike the federal program, Georgia does not have an individual recovery plan for each protected species.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15243]]></link><description><![CDATA[This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22313]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and watch me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/414]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and watch me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11340]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect  For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect  For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty   To load a falling man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10795</guid></item></channel></rss>