<?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[My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30989]]></link><description><![CDATA[My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our forgiving of others will not procure forgiveness for ourselves; but our not forgiving others proves that we ourselves are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our forgiving of others will not procure forgiveness for ourselves; but our not forgiving others proves that we ourselves are not forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no disputing about taste. [Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51560]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no disputing about taste. [Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Sotero kept quiet, worrying that her family would be targeted. But she found comfort in numbers at last week's rally, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37758]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Sotero kept quiet, worrying that her family would be targeted. But she found comfort in numbers at last week's rally, organized by Tucson's Border Action Network. In August 2004, BAN hosted a community forum where anger simply erupted.] People had been afraid to speak out, ... They fear repercussions; they fear being targeted, because (the Border Patrol) is so dominant and so imposing in their communities, where they're told they don't have any rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But even if Koizumi loses, the chances are very small that Japan will change its structural reform policies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39860]]></link><description><![CDATA[But even if Koizumi loses, the chances are very small that Japan will change its structural reform policies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of thinking independently together ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of thinking independently together]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do something and you really care and you want to convey something in a subtle way, there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38799]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do something and you really care and you want to convey something in a subtle way, there are people out there that are going to pick up on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silent, grim, colossal, the Big City has ever stood against its revilers. They call it hard as iron; they say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silent, grim, colossal, the Big City has ever stood against its revilers. They call it hard as iron; they say that nothing of pity beats in its bosom; they compare its streets with lonely forests and deserts of lava. But beneath the hard crust of the lobster is found a delectable and luscious food. Perhaps a different simile would have been wiser. Still nobody should take offence. We would call nobody a lobster with good and sufficient claws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1853]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18270]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25152]]></link><description><![CDATA[No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too technical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon  It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon  It works, on e'er self-transmutative form,   Common to now the living, now the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is also to be found in a day's work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary; therefore, it is possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to do any of the legwork themselves. They've spent their whole life working and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37085]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to do any of the legwork themselves. They've spent their whole life working and doing everything and now they are retired and want to be utterly pampered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11894]]></link><description><![CDATA[... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4526]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9738]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61528]]></link><description><![CDATA[A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to behave is to misbehave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3984]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to behave is to misbehave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The slothful is the servant of the counters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The slothful is the servant of the counters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    In questions of this sort there are two things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Greenspan] is going to say we're not in a recession, but the risks are very, very high, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37045]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Greenspan] is going to say we're not in a recession, but the risks are very, very high,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What were once vices are the fashion of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60542]]></link><description><![CDATA[What were once vices are the fashion of the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Panurge had a flea in his ear. [Fr., Panurge auoyt la pulee en l' oreille.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Panurge had a flea in his ear. [Fr., Panurge auoyt la pulee en l' oreille.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35302]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/143]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17466]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It appears that the European Union and other Basel Committee member countries are on course to launch the new approach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39093]]></link><description><![CDATA[It appears that the European Union and other Basel Committee member countries are on course to launch the new approach in 2008, while the United States will implement at least one year later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two other precious drops that ready stood, Each, in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell  Kiss'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two other precious drops that ready stood, Each, in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell  Kiss'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is the thief of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is the thief of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28034]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240  He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake  The angel for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake  The angel for the woman in a kiss,   At once I wis,    My soul will wake!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From what I recollect, the audiences in India are very discerning and know how to appreciate real music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30822]]></link><description><![CDATA[From what I recollect, the audiences in India are very discerning and know how to appreciate real music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His delivery kind of left him for one pitch or two, but then he got it back. That's a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34866]]></link><description><![CDATA[His delivery kind of left him for one pitch or two, but then he got it back. That's a good sign. With him, he's either good or bad, and today he was able to address his problem. Before, if he got a bad hitter or two, things got out of hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That means no new national production of highly enriched uranium from which a bomb could be made, and that's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35950]]></link><description><![CDATA[That means no new national production of highly enriched uranium from which a bomb could be made, and that's the issue over Iran.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35950</guid></item></channel></rss>