<?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[Idleness ruins the constitution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness ruins the constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In light of activists' global boycottsof war profiteers, globalizationbegins to look evitable. Wereverse imperialist's sanctionswith the people's sanctions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13331]]></link><description><![CDATA[In light of activists' global boycottsof war profiteers, globalizationbegins to look evitable. Wereverse imperialist's sanctionswith the people's sanctions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last infirmity of noble mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last infirmity of noble mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4558]]></link><description><![CDATA[My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53556]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40181]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't play a lick of defense. We played with our heads down and there was poor coaching on our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30590]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't play a lick of defense. We played with our heads down and there was poor coaching on our part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and less you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4984]]></link><description><![CDATA[In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and less you are doing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check,  Richer than doing nothing for a robe,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48204]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check,  Richer than doing nothing for a robe,   Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk:    Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine     Yet keeps his book uncrossed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one do? According to men's habits and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18537]]></link><description><![CDATA[I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one do? According to men's habits and dispositions, so one must yield to them. [Lat., Inepta haec esse, nos quae facimus sentio;  Verum quid facias? ut homo est, ita morem geras.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Odd instances of strange coincidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Odd instances of strange coincidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give the historians something to write about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give the historians something to write about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18803]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Income and sales taxes are both collected in dribs and drabs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Income and sales taxes are both collected in dribs and drabs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13510]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in  At sixty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9790]]></link><description><![CDATA[But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in  At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil,   And find a deuced balance with the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook,  Thy bubblings ne'er remember   Apollo's summer look;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11568]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook,  Thy bubblings ne'er remember   Apollo's summer look;    But with a sweet forgetting,     They stay their crystal fretting,      Never, never petting       About the frozen time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9979]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis merry in hall Where beards wag all.   - Thomas Tusser, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27432]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis merry in hall Where beards wag all.   - Thomas Tusser,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14107]]></link><description><![CDATA[An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing comes to mind without thinking! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing comes to mind without thinking!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9810]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind. [Lat., Conscia mens ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intra  Pectora pro facto spemque metumque suo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was attacking the hoop and hitting jumpers inside 20 feet. Kobe's range is unreal, and he does it his way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56957]]></link><description><![CDATA[People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is supposedly the best policy, but if you can't say anything nice you shouldn't say anything at all. I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is supposedly the best policy, but if you can't say anything nice you shouldn't say anything at all. I'm confused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire. [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49044]]></link><description><![CDATA[A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire. [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My people are afraid that it is on occasions like this the rednecks can create havoc. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29081]]></link><description><![CDATA[My people are afraid that it is on occasions like this the rednecks can create havoc.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62620]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is so unlike theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is so unlike theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin; For to deny each article with oath  Cannot remove nor choke the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin; For to deny each article with oath  Cannot remove nor choke the strong conception   That I do groan withal. Thou art to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55169]]></link><description><![CDATA[People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  The fundamental note of the Old Testament, in other words, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  The fundamental note of the Old Testament, in other words, is revelation. Its seers and prophets are not men of philosophic mind, who have risen from the seen to the unseen and, by dint of much reflection, have gradually attained to elevated conceptions of Him who is the Author of all that is. They are men of God whom God has chosen, that He might speak to them and, through them, to His people. Israel has not, in and by them, created for itself a God: God has, through them, created for Himself a people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13998]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand  The Thing became a trumpet; whence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4344]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand  The Thing became a trumpet; whence he blew   Soul-animating strains--alas! too few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health and mony goe farre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health and mony goe farre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60183]]></link><description><![CDATA[In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60606</guid></item></channel></rss>