<?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 greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As a matter of fact, a dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole;  But what were that intrinsic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole;  But what were that intrinsic virtue worth,   Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge,    Fresh from St. Andrew's College,     Should nail the conscious needle to the north?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26597]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When women go wrong, men go right after them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27127]]></link><description><![CDATA[When women go wrong, men go right after them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words.  "Careful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words.  "Careful with fire," is good advice we know   "Careful with words," is ten times doubly so.    Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead;     But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always thought I should be treated like a star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26070]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always thought I should be treated like a star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45226]]></link><description><![CDATA[For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At present, people don't trust him due to his status as a criminal suspect for a purported fake diploma, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37480]]></link><description><![CDATA[At present, people don't trust him due to his status as a criminal suspect for a purported fake diploma, so Rudolf should show that he has leadership skills and honesty to encourage people to build the province together and use natural resources for the people's benefits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   Be not angry that you cannot make others as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912   Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment: for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labour is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10108]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49576]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love working out. It's my release. I've done it since I've been in the military. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love working out. It's my release. I've done it since I've been in the military.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People realize that what we did in this agreement was push back against the corporation's main objective of turning this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29616]]></link><description><![CDATA[People realize that what we did in this agreement was push back against the corporation's main objective of turning this place into a [non-permanent] contract-hired staff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strangers open up to you just as much as your friends, sometimes even more for whatever reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strangers open up to you just as much as your friends, sometimes even more for whatever reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors To find out thet it looks like rain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors To find out thet it looks like rain arter it fairly pours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15670]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light; . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light; . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4329]]></link><description><![CDATA[My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest poetry was first experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46760]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest poetry was first experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11073]]></link><description><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy  To see how plump my bags are and my barns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46721]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1745]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life isn't stable. Stability is unnatural. The only stable society is the police state. You can have a free society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life isn't stable. Stability is unnatural. The only stable society is the police state. You can have a free society or you can have a stable society. You can't have both. Take your choice. As for me, I'll choose a free, organic society over a rigid, artificial society any day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This whole country runs on fuel, but our industry for sure, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35016]]></link><description><![CDATA[This whole country runs on fuel, but our industry for sure,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37259]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as many people (with disabilities) here as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Using a private contractor and outside advisory team will help expedite the process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Using a private contractor and outside advisory team will help expedite the process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32784</guid></item></channel></rss>