<?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[The trouble with a budget is that it's hard to fill up one hole without digging another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4966]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with a budget is that it's hard to fill up one hole without digging another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15694]]></link><description><![CDATA[High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different... we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56297]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour sinks where commerce long prevails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5076]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A work of skill, surpassing sense, A labor of Omnipotence;  Though frail as dust it meet thine eye,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A work of skill, surpassing sense, A labor of Omnipotence;  Though frail as dust it meet thine eye,   He form'd this gnat who built the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principles that they are laboring to dethrone: but if they argue without reason (which, in order to be consistent with themselves they must do), they are out of reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can do most who has most power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50861]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can do most who has most power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never lie to someone who trusts you, and never trust someone who lies to you!! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never lie to someone who trusts you, and never trust someone who lies to you!!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4189]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535  Sorrow for sin and sorrow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535  Sorrow for sin and sorrow for suffering are ofttimes so twisted and interwoven in the same person -- yea, in the same sigh and groan -- that sometimes it is impossible for the party himself so to separate and divide them in his own sense and feeling, as to know which proceeds from the one and which from the other. Only the all-seeing eye of an infinite God is able to discern and distinguish them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56332]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2089]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A popular, independent and developed Iraq will be the best friend of the Iranian nation, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41301]]></link><description><![CDATA[A popular, independent and developed Iraq will be the best friend of the Iranian nation,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill! But let it whistle as it will,  We'll keep up Christmas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill! But let it whistle as it will,  We'll keep up Christmas merry still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two great things you can give your children: one isroots, the other is wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two great things you can give your children: one isroots, the other is wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects, ... Try to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects, ... Try to be polite ... and avoid scuffles as befits a revolutionary Iranian Muslim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ties in with their long-term strategy. In a bid situation, 350 pence does not seem unreasonable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29362]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ties in with their long-term strategy. In a bid situation, 350 pence does not seem unreasonable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28735]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are vehemently opposed to these types of crimes; unfortunately, when these things happen, it gives fuel to people who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40494]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are vehemently opposed to these types of crimes; unfortunately, when these things happen, it gives fuel to people who are already against the release of this information.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conditions at Oakley and Columbia are unconscionable, ... This is no way to set juvenile offenders on the course ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conditions at Oakley and Columbia are unconscionable, ... This is no way to set juvenile offenders on the course to law-abiding and productive lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59057]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 1990s we had difficulty getting kids home from school, ... It's a precaution because we don't want little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33957]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1990s we had difficulty getting kids home from school, ... It's a precaution because we don't want little kids out in that kind of weather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap  Of murky buildings: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57182]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap  Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,--   Nature's observatory--whence the dell,    In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell,     May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep      'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap       Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22560]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So wise so young, they say, do never live long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61739]]></link><description><![CDATA[So wise so young, they say, do never live long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41200]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53990]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age--I missed it coming and going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56812]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tacticalmisrepresentation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21770]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tacticalmisrepresentation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1194]]></link><description><![CDATA[No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best is the enemy of the good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best is the enemy of the good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never find yourself until you face the truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59776]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never find yourself until you face the truth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may envy every one, but no one envies you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50638]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may envy every one, but no one envies you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is holding up as well as you could imagine. But I can't discuss anything else until the board meeting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36036]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is holding up as well as you could imagine. But I can't discuss anything else until the board meeting tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're pretty close to the station. So, you are taking a lot of valuable land for parking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38090]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're pretty close to the station. So, you are taking a lot of valuable land for parking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sovereignty is not given, it is taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39789</guid></item></channel></rss>