<?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[The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre; je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46295]]></link><description><![CDATA[It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to whom unlimited energy means unlimited power for war and destruction, there is an ominous cloud in the distance though at present it be no bigger than a man's hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47703]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bill . . . called a guy who was a towering figure and he totally defanged him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bill . . . called a guy who was a towering figure and he totally defanged him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These findings suggest that developing ways to avoid holiday weight gain may be extremely important for preventing obesity and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34098]]></link><description><![CDATA[These findings suggest that developing ways to avoid holiday weight gain may be extremely important for preventing obesity and the diseases associated with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many other schools have strong programs, too, but Rick Pillsbury's Casa Grande teams are exceptional. You can tell by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many other schools have strong programs, too, but Rick Pillsbury's Casa Grande teams are exceptional. You can tell by the way his students present themselves: They all dress properly, act appropriately and have resumes and other materials neatly typed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18568]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret from a seed, carefully nursed and fertilized and sheltered from too much sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what theythink laughable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what theythink laughable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20688]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people think that the new economy is all about the internet. I think that it's being fueled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people think that the new economy is all about the internet. I think that it's being fueled by the internet - as well as by cell phones, digital assistants, and the like - but that it's really about customers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember that a kite rises against - not with - the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember that a kite rises against - not with - the wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26931]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum est posita.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually, there have 788 graft cases in North Sumatra reported by people to the KPK, but the commission has decided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually, there have 788 graft cases in North Sumatra reported by people to the KPK, but the commission has decided that only 163 of them should be followed up on. It really does mean there is a huge graft problem in North Sumatra.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Iranians were just jumping on the bandwagon. They want to galvanize people, keep them focused on an anti-Western agenda. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28952]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Iranians were just jumping on the bandwagon. They want to galvanize people, keep them focused on an anti-Western agenda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. [Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. [Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62343]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you kayak down Yucca Pen, it looks fine. The problem is its drainage area has been platted for development, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28176]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you kayak down Yucca Pen, it looks fine. The problem is its drainage area has been platted for development, so it drains a much larger upland area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13621]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experts often possess more data than judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experts often possess more data than judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plain, genteel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plain, genteel dress is more admired, obtains more credit in the eyes of the judicious and sensible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call it a wardrobe. It's a magic place where children find out that the world is a place of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call it a wardrobe. It's a magic place where children find out that the world is a place of infinite possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do our own private protection for our own cell phones. The reality is everything is available to you if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40118]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do our own private protection for our own cell phones. The reality is everything is available to you if you connive enough. It doesn't surprise me you can get other people's cell phone bills for a fee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[January grey is here, Like a sexton by her grave;  February bears the bier,   March with grief ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54956]]></link><description><![CDATA[January grey is here, Like a sexton by her grave;  February bears the bier,   March with grief doth howl and rave,    And April weeps--but, O ye hours!     Follow with May's fairest flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars — all over Europe, all over the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61142]]></link><description><![CDATA[And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars — all over Europe, all over the world. 'Sometimes in the private interest of royal families,' Satan said, 'sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose — there is no such war in the history of the race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising promotes that divine discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising promotes that divine discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judg'd a partner in the trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judg'd a partner in the trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to have him back, but I am not optimistic. It could fall apart, but they are past ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to have him back, but I am not optimistic. It could fall apart, but they are past the money and now working on terms that are easier to resolve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Correction does much, but encouragement does more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Correction does much, but encouragement does more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59669]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the states of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43703]]></link><description><![CDATA[The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the states of the civilized world were organized in some sort of federalism, as the states of the American Union, for instance, are organized, there would be no international war as we know it ... The main obstacle is nationalism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are really excited at how our campus has grown and is continuing to grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40743]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are really excited at how our campus has grown and is continuing to grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions--bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48120]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions--bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3770]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3770</guid></item></channel></rss>