<?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[One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53992]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I grabbed his arm and twisted it up behind his head and said 'Now who's asking the questions?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lady of the twilight She hath such gentle hands,  So lovely are the gifts she brings   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lady of the twilight She hath such gentle hands,  So lovely are the gifts she brings   From out of the sunset-lands,    So bountiful, so merciful,     So sweet of soul is she;      And over all the world she draws       Her cloak of charity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain,  Subdues the rage of poison, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain,  Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16533]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever goes there once goes back. If we stop going to feed and trap them, they're finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever goes there once goes back. If we stop going to feed and trap them, they're finished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62869]]></link><description><![CDATA[If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A closed mouth catches no flies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12458]]></link><description><![CDATA[A closed mouth catches no flies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very amateurish attempt to shoe-horn Sinn Fein into a position on policing, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35689]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very amateurish attempt to shoe-horn Sinn Fein into a position on policing,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58245]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58245</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[I think it's just something to mislead the jury. And I don't think there's a problem anyway, because very few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's just something to mislead the jury. And I don't think there's a problem anyway, because very few juries ever acquit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50258]]></link><description><![CDATA[His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul.  'Tis the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul.  'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the moth-eaten rag,   When the pole was a staff, and the rag was a flag.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58620]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Why me?" That is the soldier's first question, asked each morning as the patrols go out and each evening as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57119]]></link><description><![CDATA["Why me?" That is the soldier's first question, asked each morning as the patrols go out and each evening as the night settles around the foxholes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric  Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25121]]></link><description><![CDATA[For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric  Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,   To smatter French is meritorious.   - Samuel Butler (1),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46293]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call Grover, tell him I am in Michigan and that I have two checks for him totaling 160 and need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call Grover, tell him I am in Michigan and that I have two checks for him totaling 160 and need a check back for Faith and Family for $150K.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year we surprised a lot of people. I'm happy now that it's done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40323]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year we surprised a lot of people. I'm happy now that it's done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1328]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them hate, so long as they fear. [Lat., Oderint, dum metuant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them hate, so long as they fear. [Lat., Oderint, dum metuant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About one in 10 have symptoms that meet criteria for a disorder plus also have some significant impairment to leading ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28460]]></link><description><![CDATA[About one in 10 have symptoms that meet criteria for a disorder plus also have some significant impairment to leading a normal life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3165]]></link><description><![CDATA[All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48644]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17653]]></link><description><![CDATA[After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27982]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.   - Ralph ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53009]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat. - "Time", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27821]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat. - "Time", On Journalists, May 8, 1950.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65579]]></link><description><![CDATA[In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deloitte's sessions at Telecom NEXT really zero in on the issues of concern for companies trying to win in an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deloitte's sessions at Telecom NEXT really zero in on the issues of concern for companies trying to win in an evolving IP world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5089]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have learnt life's lessons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50520]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have learnt life's lessons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65</guid></item></channel></rss>