<?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[Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave,  With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave,  With here and there a violet bestrown,   Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave;    And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that pure thinking will do more to educate a man than any other activity he can engage in. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that pure thinking will do more to educate a man than any other activity he can engage in. To afford sympathetic entertainment to abstract ideas, to let one idea beget another, and that another, till the mind teems with them; to compare one idea with others, to weigh, to consider, evaluate, approve, respect, correct, refine; to join thought with thought like an architect till a whole edifice has been created within the mind; to travel back in imagination to the beginning of the creation and then to leap swiftly forward to the end of time; to bound upward through illimitable space and downward into the nucleus of an atom; and all this without so much as moving from our chair or opening the eyes--this is to soar above all the lower creation and come near to the angels of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56605]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5560]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. -Marilyn Ferguson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I did feel a friendship with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30351]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I did feel a friendship with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's useful to know how large your zero is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's useful to know how large your zero is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15899]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some cases suicidal girls were stripped naked and isolated for extended time periods in windowless empty 'dark rooms' with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28782]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some cases suicidal girls were stripped naked and isolated for extended time periods in windowless empty 'dark rooms' with only a drain in the cement floor to serve as a toilet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian (i.e. from the Netherlands-Batavia.) [Lat., O crassum ingenium. Suspicor fuisse Batavum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian (i.e. from the Netherlands-Batavia.) [Lat., O crassum ingenium. Suspicor fuisse Batavum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64303]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve, When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60001]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve, When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most difficult task facing us today is to persuade the person who is enjoying Christian culture and Christian standards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most difficult task facing us today is to persuade the person who is enjoying Christian culture and Christian standards that these do not survive of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10805]]></link><description><![CDATA[All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is she not passing fair? -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is she not passing fair? -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm worried that a number of these deals will not get done now. A lot of people get caught in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm worried that a number of these deals will not get done now. A lot of people get caught in the changing markets when they only see the upside of things going in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Union Carbide desecratedIndia withkiller insecticidesbrought to BhopalThey violated HinduismAll bugs are sacredto Ahimsa's Gopal***(the biggest industrial accident of all time.. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Union Carbide desecratedIndia withkiller insecticidesbrought to BhopalThey violated HinduismAll bugs are sacredto Ahimsa's Gopal***(the biggest industrial accident of all time.. involved several thousand deaths..as killer insecticide gas killed humans.. )Ahimsa nonviolenceGopal.. name for Krishna as protector of cows and all beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the Blue-White game because it gives us that almost-game mentality and you have fans out there -- I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37434]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the Blue-White game because it gives us that almost-game mentality and you have fans out there -- I love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The other night [in a loss to Philadelphia], we didn't do what we needed to do offensively. No matter how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The other night [in a loss to Philadelphia], we didn't do what we needed to do offensively. No matter how much I play, I want to do a better job of helping change that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we did a decent job defensively, Toronto worried us because of their size. We had to create some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we did a decent job defensively, Toronto worried us because of their size. We had to create some pressure so they wouldn't have the opportunity to just pound the ball inside on us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God complaines not, but doth what is fitting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49268]]></link><description><![CDATA[God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10966]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever life throws at us, we'll be able to handle it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever life throws at us, we'll be able to handle it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At all times it is better to have a method. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9878]]></link><description><![CDATA[At all times it is better to have a method.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're specifically looking for biking in Hawaii, we're easy to find. We're on the first page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38492]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're specifically looking for biking in Hawaii, we're easy to find. We're on the first page.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity. The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I definitely haven't given up my aspirations of being a rock star, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I definitely haven't given up my aspirations of being a rock star,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54878]]></link><description><![CDATA[We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell us, especially if it involves outer space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They try to have three pitchers and I have no doubt she'll be there. Pitching is tough and she's done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34154]]></link><description><![CDATA[They try to have three pitchers and I have no doubt she'll be there. Pitching is tough and she's done it at this level. At the next level, they know she'll get better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It always seems impossible until its done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58026]]></link><description><![CDATA[It always seems impossible until its done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broad-based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Broad-based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66092]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain does anyone pretend that he will be a martyr for his religion, when he will not rule an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7336]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain does anyone pretend that he will be a martyr for his religion, when he will not rule an appetite nor restrain lust nor subdue a passion nor cross his covetousness and ambition for the sake of it, and in hope of that eternal life which God that cannot lie hath promised. He that refuses to do the less is not like to do the greater. It is very improbable that a man will die for his religion, when he cannot be persuaded to live according to it. He that cannot take up a resolution to live a saint, hath a demonstration within himself that he is never like to die a martyr.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire; Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow  Of bragging horror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire; Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow  Of bragging horror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if you can be merry then, I'll say A man may weep upon his wedding day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27416]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if you can be merry then, I'll say A man may weep upon his wedding day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15405]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not in favor of it if they're vague about what they are going to do with the property. Without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31451]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not in favor of it if they're vague about what they are going to do with the property. Without a business plan I don't think it's wise to jump into a purchase like this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31451</guid></item></channel></rss>