<?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 nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65637]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19352]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How glorious it is -- and also how painful -- to be an exception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25506]]></link><description><![CDATA[How glorious it is -- and also how painful -- to be an exception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worcester County has great potential for growing grapes. We're still trying to figure the absolute best grapes and we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worcester County has great potential for growing grapes. We're still trying to figure the absolute best grapes and we have experiments under way, but you can grow everything on the Eastern Shore and we're very encouraged by whites.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat. 'We’re all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26181]]></link><description><![CDATA['But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat. 'We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.''How do you know I’m mad?' said Alice.'You must be, said the Cat. 'or you wouldn’t have come here.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh she's nice, she's kind, innocent too. She's probably pretty, the right one for you. So just forget me: I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh she's nice, she's kind, innocent too. She's probably pretty, the right one for you. So just forget me: I'm only a friend. Though I'll be with you, until the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55538]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never find yourself until you face the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2072]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never find yourself until you face the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is the thirst of youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is the thirst of youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. [Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. [Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans un pire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis impious in a good man to be sad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54627]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis impious in a good man to be sad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I long to believe in immortality. . . . If I am destined to be happy with you here--how short ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I long to believe in immortality. . . . If I am destined to be happy with you here--how short is the longest life. I wish to believe in immortality--I wish to live with you forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47913]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into thereoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into thereoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by a winding stair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48351]]></link><description><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by a winding stair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41423]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona... I understand what it is to be vulnerable, and I understand what it is to be strong. So anybody who bashes 'sentimental' is missing it. I've seen the toughest guys in the world cry. That macho thing is an old folktale. I'm not afraid of it at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found (to my regret) that the degrees of shame and disgust which I actually feel at my own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8523]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found (to my regret) that the degrees of shame and disgust which I actually feel at my own sins do not at all correspond to what my reason tells me about their comparative gravity. Just as the degree to which, in daily life, I feel the emotion of fear has very little to do with my rational judgment of the danger. I'd sooner have really nasty seas when I'm in an open boat than look down in perfect (actual) safety from the edge of a cliff. Similarly, I have confessed ghastly uncharities with less reluctance than small unmentionables -- or those sins which happen to be ungentlemanly as well as unchristian. Our emotional reactions to our own behaviour are of limited ethical significance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crave not perfection from others & you will get the best behaviour they can offer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crave not perfection from others & you will get the best behaviour they can offer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ask people not to rush us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34846]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ask people not to rush us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All parties will work within the next three days to reach an agreement. We will meet in three days to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36212]]></link><description><![CDATA[All parties will work within the next three days to reach an agreement. We will meet in three days to finalise this issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In nature there's no blemish but the mind; None can be called deformed but the unkind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60268]]></link><description><![CDATA[In nature there's no blemish but the mind; None can be called deformed but the unkind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[House prices are likely to remain relatively flat for an extended period, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36611]]></link><description><![CDATA[House prices are likely to remain relatively flat for an extended period,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think it has been a little bit of a slow and rough start, but people are beginning to read ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40903]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think it has been a little bit of a slow and rough start, but people are beginning to read and see the benefits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13518]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is life, except excuse for death, or death but an escape from life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28087]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is life, except excuse for death, or death but an escape from life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iron hand in a velvet glove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iron hand in a velvet glove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many who are living far below their possibilities becausethey are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21542]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many who are living far below their possibilities becausethey are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do youwant to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highestwithin your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs orconventionalities or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded onprinciple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going to be traveling, make sure all your immunizations are current, drink only bottled water and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41450]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going to be traveling, make sure all your immunizations are current, drink only bottled water and I wouldn't eat poultry in Asia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Handsome features are a silent recommendation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Handsome features are a silent recommendation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54141]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/589]]></link><description><![CDATA[If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12933]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tornado came through here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33335]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tornado came through here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50043]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give up control even if it means the employees have to make some mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give up control even if it means the employees have to make some mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47116</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></channel></rss>