<?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[Of course, there are political complications in Haiti, too, ... But when people are basically unhappy because they don't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, there are political complications in Haiti, too, ... But when people are basically unhappy because they don't have a good way of life, they don't have a job, it's often related to too many people and too few opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,  Catullus scarcely has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,  Catullus scarcely has a decent poem,   I don't think Sappho's Ode a good example,    Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn     Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample;      But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one       Being with "Formosum Pastor Corydon."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's getting better every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40723]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's getting better every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65226]]></link><description><![CDATA[I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24]]></link><description><![CDATA[The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22410]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the book of life's questions, the answers are not in the back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21656]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the book of life's questions, the answers are not in the back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem but always what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem but always what you see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46681]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27319]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;  To murder thousands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43407]]></link><description><![CDATA[One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;  To murder thousands takes a specious name,   War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I strive to mould circumstances to myself, not myself to circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50263]]></link><description><![CDATA[I strive to mould circumstances to myself, not myself to circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody oranything outside ourselves will affect us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody oranything outside ourselves will affect us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's language is as their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's language is as their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2644]]></link><description><![CDATA[One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35825]]></link><description><![CDATA[You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50738]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56273]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50625]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60758]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Granta! sweet Granta! where studious of ease, I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58032]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Granta! sweet Granta! where studious of ease, I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, we can't control that, just as we can't control outsiders gambling on our games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, we can't control that, just as we can't control outsiders gambling on our games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the First Amendment and should surely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the First Amendment and should surely have agreed to stop it long ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. [Ger., Wissenschaft und Kunst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. [Ger., Wissenschaft und Kunst gehoren der Welt an, und vor ihhen verschwinden die Schranken der Nationalitat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not afraidÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦I was born to do this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37967]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not afraidÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦I was born to do this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring;  Sea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring;  Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give,   And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are treasures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. charter schools lead the pack in terms of market share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37530]]></link><description><![CDATA[D.C. charter schools lead the pack in terms of market share.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62400]]></link><description><![CDATA[A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anarchy is a form of crime ... We will search the perpetrators, detain them and bring them to trial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anarchy is a form of crime ... We will search the perpetrators, detain them and bring them to trial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We also hope the media will also represent a kind of monitoring over these elections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34807]]></link><description><![CDATA[We also hope the media will also represent a kind of monitoring over these elections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27240]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some councils have only two or three pupils who need this help. That is not a big enough group to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some councils have only two or three pupils who need this help. That is not a big enough group to build up real expertise in dealing with them. They will look at using specialists like Spark of Genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going well, so far we're going steady, driving at a safe speed and things are going pretty much according ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31708]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going well, so far we're going steady, driving at a safe speed and things are going pretty much according to plan. We're aiming to be somewhere in the top six and we're on target. We had a small spin at a junction on the first stage that gave away a few seconds but apart from that we've had no issues. The roads are in good condition, there's a good solid base and I'm enjoying my driving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31708</guid></item></channel></rss>