<?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[People need to have the ability to take care of themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39850]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need to have the ability to take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you. Then you win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61622]]></link><description><![CDATA[First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you. Then you win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was a wonderful caregiver who touched the lives of many patients personally. And she touched many more lives by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40081]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was a wonderful caregiver who touched the lives of many patients personally. And she touched many more lives by helping other nurses learn and grow in their profession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath die end.  I was angry with my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2533]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath die end.  I was angry with my foe;   I told it not, my wrath did grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53673]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to get boring before it gets exciting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38287]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to get boring before it gets exciting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would chuse to dy in Spain (where they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49056]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would chuse to dy in Spain (where they say the Catholick Religion is professed with greatest strictness).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17280]]></link><description><![CDATA[All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9241]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the roof of your condo gets damaged, for example, and water leaks into the unit, the master policy would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42014]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the roof of your condo gets damaged, for example, and water leaks into the unit, the master policy would cover the roof repair but not individual unit repairs to things like the ceiling, walls, carpets or furniture,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed. [Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56261]]></link><description><![CDATA[A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed. [Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here lies who, born a man, a grocer died. [Fr., Ne homme--mort epicier.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here lies who, born a man, a grocer died. [Fr., Ne homme--mort epicier.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks, which have risen too fast to high levels that can't be justified, had to come down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stocks, which have risen too fast to high levels that can't be justified, had to come down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American public by such companies as Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco and Adelphia, we finally got the ringleader. Maybe now we can lower the nation's terror alert to periwinkle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For everything you have missed you have gained something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17152]]></link><description><![CDATA[For everything you have missed you have gained something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This garden is the crown jewel of the entire restoration project. The flowers cost $150,000. But it cost four times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33091]]></link><description><![CDATA[This garden is the crown jewel of the entire restoration project. The flowers cost $150,000. But it cost four times that for the layers upon layers of work in this garden that people never see, such as the archeology, the engineering, and the irrigation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loved no King since Forty One When Prelacy went down,  A Cloak and Band I then put on, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loved no King since Forty One When Prelacy went down,  A Cloak and Band I then put on,   And preached against the Crown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. - The Heart's Domain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oil is being propped up by all the concerns that supplies will be interrupted. As long as the market thinks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oil is being propped up by all the concerns that supplies will be interrupted. As long as the market thinks it's possible, we might see some more increases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without justice, courage is weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without justice, courage is weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be hurting if we don't get it done this year because people will go elsewhere to make more money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36008]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be hurting if we don't get it done this year because people will go elsewhere to make more money and have better benefits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13435]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64761]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is at least 50 percent of the creative process ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is at least 50 percent of the creative process]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They always say, 'Smile!' and sometimes that just ticks me off. I'm not a smiley guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39979]]></link><description><![CDATA[They always say, 'Smile!' and sometimes that just ticks me off. I'm not a smiley guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4632]]></link><description><![CDATA["Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They wanted to do more maps for other areas along the Gulf Coast, but no one wanted to pay for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40557]]></link><description><![CDATA[They wanted to do more maps for other areas along the Gulf Coast, but no one wanted to pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling;  The country round appeareth straight   A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling;  The country round appeareth straight   A flower-garden smiling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vulgar follow Fortune's glances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50780]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vulgar follow Fortune's glances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/655]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negotiations, in the view of the government, are the only constructive way to a solution of this question. In this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negotiations, in the view of the government, are the only constructive way to a solution of this question. In this way, the international community can feel confident in Iran's statements that its nuclear program serves only peaceful intentions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is virtue's opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is virtue's opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of these companies are privately owned, and they now reach a point in their evolution where they grow to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of these companies are privately owned, and they now reach a point in their evolution where they grow to the point where they may lose family control of the business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  Only he who flings himself upward when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  Only he who flings himself upward when the pull comes to drag him down, can hope to break the force of temptation. Temptation may be an invitation to hell, but much more is it an opportunity to reach heaven. At the moment of temptation, sin and righteousness are both very near the Christian; but, of the two, the latter is the nearer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is blood all over him and I'm scared they'll come for him here. If he doesn't get urgent treatment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is blood all over him and I'm scared they'll come for him here. If he doesn't get urgent treatment he will die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3293]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21761]]></link><description><![CDATA[If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12272</guid></item></channel></rss>