<?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[Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11344]]></link><description><![CDATA[How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew Bentonville would be tough and that it would take those three girls' best efforts for us to win. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40307]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew Bentonville would be tough and that it would take those three girls' best efforts for us to win. Before the match, we talked about how it was important to play each shot as if the championship depended on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every tub must stand upon its bottom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every tub must stand upon its bottom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many can brook the weather that love not the wind. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many can brook the weather that love not the wind. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foole may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49020]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foole may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first king was a successful soldier; He who serves well his country has no need of ancestors.  [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first king was a successful soldier; He who serves well his country has no need of ancestors.  [Fr., Le premier qui fut roi, fut un soldat heureux;   Qui sert bien son pays, n'a pas besoin d'aleux.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be no part of any body, is to be nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19068]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement,  Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisement.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the end be well, all will be well. [Lat., Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13775]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the end be well, all will be well. [Lat., Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the dogs were running away, all emaciated, weak, but they could still run. The strategy was to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the dogs were running away, all emaciated, weak, but they could still run. The strategy was to put food and water down so they would have something to eat. The ones boarded up were worse off; no light, mold, mildew and bacteria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65255]]></link><description><![CDATA[By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am really proud of the kids. We were not hitting the open shots tonight but we kept fighting and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35395]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am really proud of the kids. We were not hitting the open shots tonight but we kept fighting and still had a chance. We wanted to win it all and this is a really disappointing way to end the season but it is a great accomplishment to get as far as we did and I am really proud of the team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, we're telling people to expect at least a half-hour delay if you're going to try to use the Homestead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, we're telling people to expect at least a half-hour delay if you're going to try to use the Homestead Grays bridge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24264]]></link><description><![CDATA[A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only tyrant I will accept in this world is the "still smallvoice" within me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only tyrant I will accept in this world is the "still smallvoice" within me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're there before it's over, you're on time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52533]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're there before it's over, you're on time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reasons. (1) It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8543]]></link><description><![CDATA[One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reasons. (1) It raises scruples when we don't keep the routine. (2) It raises presumption when we do. Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real charity and faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue  Of him that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23243]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue  Of him that makes it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding brings control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding brings control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really don't believe there's a lot of people that have heard of me. In the past few seasons, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29722]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really don't believe there's a lot of people that have heard of me. In the past few seasons, we haven't been doing too well, but I'm pretty confident that as the season goes on, people will be looking me up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes I know of James Clerk Maxwell, ... And I have used his equations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes I know of James Clerk Maxwell, ... And I have used his equations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53930]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.  [Ger., Ein guter Mensch, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17859]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.  [Ger., Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange,   Ist sich des rechten Weges sohl bewusst.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;  Still born to improve in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3181]]></link><description><![CDATA[His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;  Still born to improve in every part,   His pencil out faces, his manners are heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay a little and news will find you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay a little and news will find you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61831]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion is no substitute for justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion is no substitute for justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a strong confectionery business there at the moment, so this acquisition would represent a good strategic fit for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37782]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a strong confectionery business there at the moment, so this acquisition would represent a good strategic fit for us,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I could be a bird, I'd be a Flying Purple People Eater because then people would sing about me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20072]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could be a bird, I'd be a Flying Purple People Eater because then people would sing about me and I could fly down and eat them because I hate that song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by the West are ineffectual substitutes for the sheltering and soothing anonymity of communal existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction. -E. F. Schumacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14269]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though sympathizing with the revolutionaries' analysis of what was wrong with society and in fact being mistaken for a revolutionary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though sympathizing with the revolutionaries' analysis of what was wrong with society and in fact being mistaken for a revolutionary himself by the political authorities of his day, nevertheless Jesus did not advocate a new political regime to be established by force through revolutionary action. He called for the love of our enemies, not their destruction; ... for readiness to suffer instead of using force; for forgiveness instead of hate and revenge. One might even say [that] Jesus was more revolutionary than the revolutionaries, or revolutionary in a very different way. The revolution he had in mind was a radical change of heart on the part of mankind, involving conversion away from selfishness and toward the willing service of God and of people in general.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16199</guid></item></channel></rss>