<?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[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61072]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18239]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judicial independence is the bulwark of our system. It gives life to the words of the Constitution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judicial independence is the bulwark of our system. It gives life to the words of the Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64048]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted real kids. I didn't want Hollywood kids doing weird accents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted real kids. I didn't want Hollywood kids doing weird accents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I get on that field, I am faster than any defensive back there. I really am _ I get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37401]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I get on that field, I am faster than any defensive back there. I really am _ I get open and I get separation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion follows close on mistrust. [Ger., Argwohnen folgt auf Misstrauen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion follows close on mistrust. [Ger., Argwohnen folgt auf Misstrauen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10388]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass, the Fox, and the LionThe ass and the fox, having entered into partnership together fortheir mutual protection, went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1606]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass, the Fox, and the LionThe ass and the fox, having entered into partnership together fortheir mutual protection, went out into the forest to hunt. Theyhadnot proceeded far when they met a Lion. The Fox, seeing imminentdanger, approached the Lion and promised to contrive for him thecapture of the Ass if the Lion would pledge his word not to harmtheFox. Then, upon assuring the Ass that he would not be injured,theFox led him to a deep pit and arranged that he should fall into it.The Lion, seeing that the Ass was secured, immediately clutchedtheFox, and attacked the Ass at his leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I give you money and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I can't imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. To some skeptical friend, 'Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut, I've got the documentation right here... It's in my file at home. ...Under "D".']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that an essential condition for crises is to be found in the existence of a highly developed system ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47416]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that an essential condition for crises is to be found in the existence of a highly developed system of communications and the spreading of a homogenous mentality over vast areas.But when the hour and the right material are at hand, the contagion spreads with the speed of electricity over hundreds of miles, and affects the most diverse populations, which hardly know each other. The message flies through the air and they all suddenly agree on that one issue, if only a sulky admission that "there's got to be a change.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give outcompletes the circle and comes back to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22419]]></link><description><![CDATA[In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give outcompletes the circle and comes back to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not fashion, it's passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36259]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not fashion, it's passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40022]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water heats up much more slowly than land surfaces, so in the summer the water is acting to cool the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water heats up much more slowly than land surfaces, so in the summer the water is acting to cool the surrounding land surface. In the winter, the opposite happens. In winter the water remains warmer than the surrounding land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3447]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's progress from them. They said when they withdrew from the market that it was because tech stocks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35443]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's progress from them. They said when they withdrew from the market that it was because tech stocks were down. They've certainly had developments since then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems the storm is not going to be as strong as we feared and that was enough to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38864]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems the storm is not going to be as strong as we feared and that was enough to take some of the selling pressure off stocks today. We are not likely to see real stock-buying this afternoon as most investors still want to see what happens with the storm during the weekend, but if damage is minimal, we might be bound for a rally on Monday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For goodness' sake, why elevate AIDS over cancer? She shouldn't have filled out that questionnaire at all, ... President Bush ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31193]]></link><description><![CDATA[For goodness' sake, why elevate AIDS over cancer? She shouldn't have filled out that questionnaire at all, ... President Bush is asking us to have faith in things unseen. We only have that kind of faith in God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did not care a button for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51058]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did not care a button for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4138]]></link><description><![CDATA[A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. [Lat., Beneficium non in eo quot fit aut datur consistit sed in ipso dantis aut facientis animo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54058]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game [of poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5242]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game [of poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She really played hard against McNary and I think we might have surprised ourselves with our performance. It was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37630]]></link><description><![CDATA[She really played hard against McNary and I think we might have surprised ourselves with our performance. It was a big game for me personally, since I went to McNary it was great to come away with a win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. -Anthony J. D'Angelo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my thill-horse has on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51407]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my thill-horse has on his tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50934]]></link><description><![CDATA[One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The numbers were right on target, but you got [the price of] oil taking off, approaching $26 a barrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30767]]></link><description><![CDATA[The numbers were right on target, but you got [the price of] oil taking off, approaching $26 a barrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the powerof simplicity. We have a tendency it seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the powerof simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our livesand forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movementfor achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And asthe pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forgetthat we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going onoutside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9636]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6626]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless Thou enablest me"; and... then he received strength more than sufficient. When he had failed in his duty, he simply confessed his fault, saying to God, "I shall never do otherwise if Thou leavest me to myself; it is Thou who must hinder my falling, and mend what is amiss." After this, he gave himself no further uneasiness about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be able to do quite a bit from home, and when I commute, it won't be bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be able to do quite a bit from home, and when I commute, it won't be bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We were very lucky. We started Spy at a time when our generation had arrived at full adulthood and wanted to connect to its anti-establishment youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has snuck into laboratories and zoos, found people with monkeys as pets. The story is amazing because of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37454]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has snuck into laboratories and zoos, found people with monkeys as pets. The story is amazing because of the extent he's gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea.spoken on Book TV by a Jackson biographer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea.spoken on Book TV by a Jackson biographer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around  Laugh at the jests or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around  Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail   Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got just bits and pieces on Madison. But we've never worried about that before, you know, about being matched ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got just bits and pieces on Madison. But we've never worried about that before, you know, about being matched up with anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always great to get a little bit of redemption, not against the UNH players, but for myself. It's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42124]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always great to get a little bit of redemption, not against the UNH players, but for myself. It's a really satisfying feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56832]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56832</guid></item></channel></rss>