<?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[We thought that by selling, we would have much more capital available to us to grow faster, and we thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42116]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought that by selling, we would have much more capital available to us to grow faster, and we thought ultimately the company would be much more stable financially. It's turned out it's been the exact opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46606]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock  The meat it feeds on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23168]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock  The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss   Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;    But O, what damned minutes tells he o'er     Who dotes, yet doubts--suspects, yet strongly loves!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In naked beauty more adorned More lovely than Pandora. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2750]]></link><description><![CDATA[In naked beauty more adorned More lovely than Pandora.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/69]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/69</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18570]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which we go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54776]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to decide right now, it would be between Kansas, Indiana and Baylor. I am not ready to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32711]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to decide right now, it would be between Kansas, Indiana and Baylor. I am not ready to make a decision now. I just want to finish out the season, and then I will be ready to make a decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women play more mobile games than men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women play more mobile games than men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Online poker has served as a learning platform for many players who have now started to take part in poker ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Online poker has served as a learning platform for many players who have now started to take part in poker tournaments in Las Vegas, Atlantic City and elsewhere. The online poker rooms are less intimidating for many new players and serve as a stepping stone for their move to land-based poker rooms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given the decision by the Justice Department to indict the entire 26,000-person firm, it is invertible there will be some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given the decision by the Justice Department to indict the entire 26,000-person firm, it is invertible there will be some personnel cuts,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chris looked pretty good, I thought, in two playoff games. If he's over his injury -- and I think he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chris looked pretty good, I thought, in two playoff games. If he's over his injury -- and I think he is -- he could move into the spot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41206]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evening words are not like to morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evening words are not like to morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. [Lat., Invidus alterius marescit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. [Lat., Invidus alterius marescit rebus opimis;  Invidia Siculi non invenere tyranni   Majus tormentus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius, Had you a healthful ear to hear of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius, Had you a healthful ear to hear of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47626]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody investing on the assumption of who's going to win the election is skating on thin ice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody investing on the assumption of who's going to win the election is skating on thin ice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49277]]></link><description><![CDATA[God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29577]]></link><description><![CDATA[These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue:  So court a mistress, she denies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue:  So court a mistress, she denies you;   Let her alone, she will court you.    Say are not women truly, then,     Styled but the shadows of us men?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1764]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud  Is bright and shining:   I therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud  Is bright and shining:   I therefore turn my clouds about    And always wear them inside out     To show the lining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66745]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground,  With folded lids beneath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground,  With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow   The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27750]]></link><description><![CDATA[One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we are aware of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You create your opportunities by asking for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/813]]></link><description><![CDATA[You create your opportunities by asking for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63457]]></link><description><![CDATA[By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61792]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod vis non potest  Id velis quod possis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adultery is the application of democracy to love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adultery is the application of democracy to love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I grabbed his arm and twisted it up behind his head and said 'Now who's asking the questions?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hajj period is important because of the large number of movements of people from around the world into one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30814]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hajj period is important because of the large number of movements of people from around the world into one location,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14381</guid></item></channel></rss>