<?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[Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fiery chariot, borne on buoyant pinions, Sweeps near me now! I soon shall ready be  To pierce the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/509]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fiery chariot, borne on buoyant pinions, Sweeps near me now! I soon shall ready be  To pierce the ther's high, unknown dominions,   To reach new spheres of pure activity!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18937]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectlythan it is to do somebody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectlythan it is to do somebody elses work perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps hishead will get ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps hishead will get ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold has worked down from Alexander's time ... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold has worked down from Alexander's time ... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2464]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it was going to happen, we've been dreaming it for 32 years, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38514]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it was going to happen, we've been dreaming it for 32 years,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52259]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a fuel of achievement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farce follow'd Comedy, and reach'd her prime. In ever-laughing Foote's fantastic time;  Mad wag! who pardon'd none, nor spared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farce follow'd Comedy, and reach'd her prime. In ever-laughing Foote's fantastic time;  Mad wag! who pardon'd none, nor spared the best,   And turn'd some very serious things to jest.    Nor church nor state escaped his public sneers,     Arms nor the gown, priests, lawyers, volunteers;      "Alas, poor Yorick!" now forever mute!       Whoever loves a laugh must sigh for Foote.        We smile, perforce, when histrionic scenes         Ape the swoln dialogue of kings and queens,          When "Chrononhotonthelogos must die,"           And Arthur struts in mimic majesty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3319]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your own self-love might impair your judgement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was nice being offered the role and not having to audition, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29124]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was nice being offered the role and not having to audition,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63916]]></link><description><![CDATA[In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52995]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dominant rhetoric is academese relieved by flashes of clich‚. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dominant rhetoric is academese relieved by flashes of clich‚.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have a young, mid-20s girl here who was the daughter of the owner, and another gentleman who just immigrated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29716]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have a young, mid-20s girl here who was the daughter of the owner, and another gentleman who just immigrated here and was trying to work two jobs to save enough money to bring his family here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20022]]></link><description><![CDATA[show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think Nature hath lost the mould Where she her shape did take;  Or else I doubt if Nature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think Nature hath lost the mould Where she her shape did take;  Or else I doubt if Nature could   So fair a creature make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,  Look what thou hast brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,  Look what thou hast brought this land to!--]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lived in countryside with my family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lived in countryside with my family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle  [Ger., Die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle  [Ger., Die Botschaft hor' ich wohl, allein mir fehlt der Glaube;   Das Wunder ist des Glaubens liebstes Kind.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In poison there is physic; and these news, Having been well, that would have made me sick,  Being sick, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26716]]></link><description><![CDATA[In poison there is physic; and these news, Having been well, that would have made me sick,  Being sick, have in some measure made me well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46982]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountain with light and song:  Ye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57794]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountain with light and song:  Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth,   By the winds which tell of the violet's birth,    By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass,     By the green leaves, opening as I pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is cultured insolence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is cultured insolence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they move is marked by violence and destruction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a first step in what has to be a long series of steps to get to anything clinical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28549]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a first step in what has to be a long series of steps to get to anything clinical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our winners make you laugh ? but they also make you think, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our winners make you laugh ? but they also make you think,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["meat produced under current factory farming conditions(which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such meat, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/198]]></link><description><![CDATA["meat produced under current factory farming conditions(which transgress Jewish prohibitions against cruelty to animals) render the eating of such meat, halachically unacceptable (i.e. unacceptable in terms ofJewish law.)"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59431]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41555]]></link><description><![CDATA[She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2051]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sinner like a young saint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5997]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sinner like a young saint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater education than one that is self-driven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66234]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just a great stock to own here, ... The company is growing in excess of 20 percent. The demographics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37125]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just a great stock to own here, ... The company is growing in excess of 20 percent. The demographics are great for education. The company is selling at about 15 times what we think they can earn next year. It's also one of the few independent publishers left and so we think it's a strategic acquisition candidate, probably worth over $60 a share, and the stock's at about $45.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17245]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daily with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daily with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36280]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most CPAs do between 45 to 50 percent of their work in two months out of the year. It makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most CPAs do between 45 to 50 percent of their work in two months out of the year. It makes for an extremely stressful time,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41732</guid></item></channel></rss>