<?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[I just want to tell stories and this is the story I've wanted to tell for the past six years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32730]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just want to tell stories and this is the story I've wanted to tell for the past six years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're ready. We're going to make sure this is a home away from home. This is a natural thing for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33241]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're ready. We're going to make sure this is a home away from home. This is a natural thing for us to do as far as the mission of our university.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving friends are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22261]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that gives me small gifts would have me live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49341]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that gives me small gifts would have me live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20389]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51126]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.   - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5023]]></link><description><![CDATA[You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.   - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10469]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23783]]></link><description><![CDATA[My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46524]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He calls his wish, it comes; he sends it back, And says he called another; that arrives,  Meets the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61797]]></link><description><![CDATA[He calls his wish, it comes; he sends it back, And says he called another; that arrives,  Meets the same welcome; yet he still calls on;   Till one calls him, who varies not his call,    But holds him fast, in chains of darkness bound,     Till Nature dies, and judgment sets him free;      A freedom far less welcome than this chain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think anybody could say with a straight face that there hasn't been some of the flow of work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37694]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think anybody could say with a straight face that there hasn't been some of the flow of work hasn't been more challenging. Leadership challenges can rub emotions raw and strain relationships.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilty consciences always make people cowards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilty consciences always make people cowards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new British survey has revealed that 9 out of 10 people like Chocolate. The tenth lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new British survey has revealed that 9 out of 10 people like Chocolate. The tenth lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new building will have eight classrooms, with a faculty lounge, offices and a library. The facility will have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new building will have eight classrooms, with a faculty lounge, offices and a library. The facility will have the latest technology with audio enhancement equipment, smart boards and computers in every room. There will also be a small computer lab as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees  Feed arrogance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48208]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees  Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43255]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10020]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . .  And boldly venture to whatever place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . .  And boldly venture to whatever place   Farthest from pain?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me  A heaven not so large as yours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19089]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me  A heaven not so large as yours   But large enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I assumed there would be an influx of women on the podium, but there are not many more at my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41632]]></link><description><![CDATA[I assumed there would be an influx of women on the podium, but there are not many more at my level than there were 20 years ago. Maybe boards don't want to hire women because they don't meet the archetypal image of the maestro.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It (first game) could have been different, you never know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41933]]></link><description><![CDATA[It (first game) could have been different, you never know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62540]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit. -William James.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,  More pangs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10455]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,  More pangs and fears than wars or women have;   And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,    Never to hope again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39149]]></link><description><![CDATA[From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14710]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35800]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66580]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12954]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It?s a great car, easy on brakes and tires. It?s extremely surprising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38192]]></link><description><![CDATA[It?s a great car, easy on brakes and tires. It?s extremely surprising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Page regrets having uttered an obscenity in open court. Sixty days to serve in jail is disproportionately severe relative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Page regrets having uttered an obscenity in open court. Sixty days to serve in jail is disproportionately severe relative to the transgression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured? [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14015]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured? [Lat., Ego si risi quod ineptus  Pastillos Rufillus olet, Gargonius hircum, lividus et mordax videar?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3466]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43211]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43211</guid></item></channel></rss>