<?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[Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanging and wiving go by destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanging and wiving go by destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36468]]></link><description><![CDATA[In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging it even to himself, that in war he was likely to enjoy little profit or pleasure on the day when the long, low, black hull of the Yankee privateer, with her tapering, bending spars, her long-range guns, and her sharp-faced captain, should appear on the western horizon, and suddenly, at the sight of heavy-lumbering British merchantman, should fling out her white wings of canvas, and fly down on her prey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53001]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.   - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is chewing gum for the eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is chewing gum for the eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about the wine show is you have owners pouring their wines, and people can ask them questions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about the wine show is you have owners pouring their wines, and people can ask them questions about the wine. We consider the event to be classy but casual, meaning you don't have to be a wine aficionado to enjoy this event.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind's frigidity: frozen steel, dark rage, morbidity. Cold fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17008]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind's frigidity: frozen steel, dark rage, morbidity. Cold fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linda was a very private person. The accolades she received were not something she sought out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Linda was a very private person. The accolades she received were not something she sought out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public is a lot more forgiving of people with true problems. But you've got to endear yourself to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public is a lot more forgiving of people with true problems. But you've got to endear yourself to the public, appear more genuinely apologetic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12536]]></link><description><![CDATA[This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29460]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45973]]></link><description><![CDATA[One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never plan the future by the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17082]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never plan the future by the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good words quench more then a bucket of water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good words quench more then a bucket of water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3350]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;  Man marks the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;  Man marks the earth with ruin--his control   Stops with the shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He went to Man United and the fame and money seemed to affect him badly. He became cockier and arrogant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40514]]></link><description><![CDATA[He went to Man United and the fame and money seemed to affect him badly. He became cockier and arrogant and we met less and less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59186]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19036]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told her it was the best she'd ever played: 1 for 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37390]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told her it was the best she'd ever played: 1 for 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And still be doing, never done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62081]]></link><description><![CDATA[And still be doing, never done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, I hate them more than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11518]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path.  But he that has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19950]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path.  But he that has humanity, forewarned,   Will turn aside and let the reptile live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41048]]></link><description><![CDATA[I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25930]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   O Holy Spirit, Who breathe where you will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   O Holy Spirit, Who breathe where you will, come into me and snatch me up to yourself. Fortify the nature you have created, with gifts so flowing with honey that, from intense joy in your sweetness, it may despise and reject all which is in this world, that it may accept spiritual gifts, and through melodious jubilation, it may entirely melt in holy love, reaching out for uncircumscribed Light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They did the book design and layout and we did the production. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40559]]></link><description><![CDATA[They did the book design and layout and we did the production.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9722]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2505]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13951]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate--that's my philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just about anyone can put a solid color tie with a patterned shirt, or vice-versa, but the ability to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just about anyone can put a solid color tie with a patterned shirt, or vice-versa, but the ability to put patterns together in a harmonized way results in a much more sophisticated and contemporary look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prices were different in the past. They have been changed to be consistent for all summer sessions. This should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prices were different in the past. They have been changed to be consistent for all summer sessions. This should be easier and more convenient for students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. [Lat., In rebus prosperis, superbiam, fastidium arrogantiamque magno opere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48483]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. [Lat., In rebus prosperis, superbiam, fastidium arrogantiamque magno opere fugiamus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9000]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a balance in the house. It's not like 24-7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a balance in the house. It's not like 24-7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, A living-dead man. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55410]]></link><description><![CDATA[A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, A living-dead man. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55410</guid></item></channel></rss>