<?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[Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophecy: Two bull's eyes out of a possible million ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prophecy: Two bull's eyes out of a possible million]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4005]]></link><description><![CDATA[When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing real can be threatened.Nothing unreal exists.(Helen Schucman over 7 years wrote the Course In Miracles). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing real can be threatened.Nothing unreal exists.(Helen Schucman over 7 years wrote the Course In Miracles).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/74]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/74</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your definition of success and happiness is very important when it's time for the spotlight or limelight to shine on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your definition of success and happiness is very important when it's time for the spotlight or limelight to shine on you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15412]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just stopped to see if Donnie wanted a ride, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just stopped to see if Donnie wanted a ride,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Style" is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after style. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15334]]></link><description><![CDATA["Style" is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after style.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas a yellow rose, By that south window of the little house,  My cousin Romney gathered with his hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54425]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas a yellow rose, By that south window of the little house,  My cousin Romney gathered with his hand   On all my birthdays, for me. save the last;    And then I shook the tree too rough, too rough,     For roses to stay after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are the wild waves saying, Sister, the whole day long,  That ever amid our playing   I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44884]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are the wild waves saying, Sister, the whole day long,  That ever amid our playing   I hear but their low, lone song?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is for you that paradise is opened, the tree of life is planted, the age to come is prepared, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45461]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is for you that paradise is opened, the tree of life is planted, the age to come is prepared, plenty is provided, a city is built, rest is appointed, goodness is established and wisdom perfected beforehand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50772]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the outside portrait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28769]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8964]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4799]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us pardon those who have wronged us. For that which others scarcely accomplish -- I mean the blotting out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us pardon those who have wronged us. For that which others scarcely accomplish -- I mean the blotting out of their own sins by means of fasting and lamentations, and prayers, and sackcloth and ashes -- this it is possible for us easily to effect without sackcloth and ashes and fasting, if only we blot out anger from our heart, and with sincerity forgive those who have wronged us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentence first, verdict afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentence first, verdict afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment. That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exclusive property is a theft against nature. [Fr., La propriete exclusive est un vol dans la nature.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exclusive property is a theft against nature. [Fr., La propriete exclusive est un vol dans la nature.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of large trunks filled with Enron documents were sent [to] Andersen's main Houston office to be shredded,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53098]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations win and preserve the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How use doth breed a habit in a man! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51539]]></link><description><![CDATA[How use doth breed a habit in a man!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard enough, even with the best will in the world, to be just. It is hard, under the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8526]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard enough, even with the best will in the world, to be just. It is hard, under the pressure of haste, uneasiness, ill-temper, self-complacency, and conceit, to continue intending justice. Power corrupts; the "insolence of office" will creep in. We see it so clearly in our superiors; is it unlikely that our inferiors see it in us? How many of those who have been over us did not sometimes (perhaps often) need our forgiveness? Be sure that we likewise need the forgiveness of those that are under us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Mirabeau's work, then is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: "Abiit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14093]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Mirabeau's work, then is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: "Abiit ad plures."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal from Homer . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46633]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal from Homer . . . . Our storydressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The implementation (of it) is wrong. What we can do is look at it and make it fairer for all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30157]]></link><description><![CDATA[The implementation (of it) is wrong. What we can do is look at it and make it fairer for all concerned. Come Jan. 1, grandfather clause all the old employees in but give them a year to see if they get healthy. Self-motivation is what makes people healthier. Money is not the factor for the person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by ‘about’ you mean ‘in a circle around,’ then yes, we’re doing something about the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66290]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by ‘about’ you mean ‘in a circle around,’ then yes, we’re doing something about the problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50541]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair;  The Grecian gods are like the Greeks,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair;  The Grecian gods are like the Greeks,   As keen-eyed, cold and fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me . . . All I ask is that you respect me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me . . . All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53988</guid></item></channel></rss>