<?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[A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan. [Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4237]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan. [Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60236]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next morning, as I was preparing to go to work, I felt God saying he was going to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next morning, as I was preparing to go to work, I felt God saying he was going to make it happen for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're not to be contiguous to metro areas, because those [towns] are different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39919]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're not to be contiguous to metro areas, because those [towns] are different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/361]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic guitar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic guitar ability, ... I want to sing and play so it has to be three chords. I can only do three chords and not look at the guitar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3468]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock, to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind, you draw large and startling figures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last couple years, a lot of resources in the IRS are going to enforcement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31431]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last couple years, a lot of resources in the IRS are going to enforcement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance,by a desire to control oil wealth, bya desire to implant our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18299]]></link><description><![CDATA[This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance,by a desire to control oil wealth, bya desire to implant our programs.on the Diane Rehm Show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I'm free, it's because I'm always running. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66902]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU-Iran human rights dialogue enables the European Union to work to improve the human rights situation in Iran. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The EU-Iran human rights dialogue enables the European Union to work to improve the human rights situation in Iran. We would like to see much greater commitment from Iran to the dialogue and to ensuring that the dialogue results in real progress achieved on the ground. We are frankly disappointed that Iran has not yet agreed dates for the next round, and [we] will continue to press them. Iran's attitude to human rights is damaging its reputation in the international community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16710]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes that fence all effort in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42952]]></link><description><![CDATA[In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known--that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that surprised me the most is the housing need in the area despite FEMA trailers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that surprised me the most is the housing need in the area despite FEMA trailers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11980]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We urge the Supreme People's Court to conduct an immediate review of this decision with a view to overturning it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41751]]></link><description><![CDATA[We urge the Supreme People's Court to conduct an immediate review of this decision with a view to overturning it. Extending the death penalty to cover more crimes goes against the international trend towards abolition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PSALM 126 The Lord can clear the darkest skies  Can give us day for night. Make drops of sacred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6499]]></link><description><![CDATA[PSALM 126 The Lord can clear the darkest skies  Can give us day for night. Make drops of sacred sorrow rise  To rivers of delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A supreme social challenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A supreme social challenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The hand that rocks the cradle"--but there is no such hand. It is bad to rock the baby, they would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3632]]></link><description><![CDATA["The hand that rocks the cradle"--but there is no such hand. It is bad to rock the baby, they would have us understand;  So the cradle's but a relic of the former foolish days,   When mothers reared their children in unscientific ways;    When they jounced them and they bounced them, those poor dwarfs of long ago--     The Washingtons and Jeffersons, you know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53657]]></link><description><![CDATA[In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15977]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time the U.S. bond market has not been leading other bond markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28438]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time the U.S. bond market has not been leading other bond markets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which of them shall I take? Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed,  If both remain alive. To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which of them shall I take? Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed,  If both remain alive. To take the widow   Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril;    And hardly shall I carry out my side,     Her husband being alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[say that your main crop is the forest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9691]]></link><description><![CDATA[say that your main crop is the forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30862]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, now lettest now thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word.(2:29). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, now lettest now thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word.(2:29).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfectplan executed next week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21236]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfectplan executed next week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that Time Inc. found itself in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34940]]></link><description><![CDATA[will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that Time Inc. found itself in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. [Lat., Etiam singulorum fatigatio quamlibet se ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. [Lat., Etiam singulorum fatigatio quamlibet se rudi modulatione solatur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot see myself as a writer, writing about lovers in Accra because you see, there are so many other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot see myself as a writer, writing about lovers in Accra because you see, there are so many other problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25305]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest upon;What would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwell?Absence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere,  Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere,  Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65671]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately, I would love to have everyone go. Everybody deserves to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately, I would love to have everyone go. Everybody deserves to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24566]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels good to know you've got this time to know you're going to be in the top 20. We're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35235]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels good to know you've got this time to know you're going to be in the top 20. We're going to have to work hard in (winter) mat drills, things like that, to hopefully keep it there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29565</guid></item></channel></rss>