<?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 City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings. Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events. They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If German citizens, for example, who are vacationing in France, get robbed there, they can -- together with German courts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35205]]></link><description><![CDATA[If German citizens, for example, who are vacationing in France, get robbed there, they can -- together with German courts -- apply for compensation from the French authorities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12326]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57463]]></link><description><![CDATA[If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission; he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55449]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-being of America's children is probably better than it ever has been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34095]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-being of America's children is probably better than it ever has been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14027]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause, That all the year eats neither partridge not quail, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause, That all the year eats neither partridge not quail,  But sets up his rest and makes up his feast,   With a crust of brown bread and a pot of good ale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've told it so many times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41613]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've told it so many times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60976]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't feel I deserve a raise just because the price of gasoline is going up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't feel I deserve a raise just because the price of gasoline is going up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43291]]></link><description><![CDATA[How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The London Stock Exchange is a critical piece on the chess board. So you have to put a big premium ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The London Stock Exchange is a critical piece on the chess board. So you have to put a big premium on the price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To show the world what long experience gains, Requires not courage, though it calls for pains;  But at life's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14674]]></link><description><![CDATA[To show the world what long experience gains, Requires not courage, though it calls for pains;  But at life's outset to inform mankind   Is a bold effort of a valiant mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 22 states parents can’t take kids fishing and eat the fish if they’re lucky enough to catch anything because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20782]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 22 states parents can’t take kids fishing and eat the fish if they’re lucky enough to catch anything because of mercury. Think about that. In 44% of all river bodies and streams it’s not safe to fish or swim. And yet industrial polluters continue to block legislation that would prevent mercury and MTBE from polluting our water supplies and leaving children with debilitating diseases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is great; but silence is greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is great; but silence is greater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2181]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intense enmity of arrogant powers toward Islam is revealed by their hostile cultural, political and military acts against Muslims. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29786]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intense enmity of arrogant powers toward Islam is revealed by their hostile cultural, political and military acts against Muslims. This is also another indisputable reality of the present world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18264]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de grands defauts.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches either serve or govern the possessor. [Lat., Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches either serve or govern the possessor. [Lat., Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a color she abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2762]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a color she abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests; and he will smile upon her, which will now be so unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him into a notable contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He likes the poor things of the world the best, I would not, therefore, if I could be rich.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5140]]></link><description><![CDATA[He likes the poor things of the world the best, I would not, therefore, if I could be rich.  It pleases him t stoop for buttercups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The national assembly should draft the permanent constitution within a period ending by August 22. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The national assembly should draft the permanent constitution within a period ending by August 22.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes no friend who never made a foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51730]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes no friend who never made a foe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs coming into the series and now we are 1-0 up in the final. We believe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs coming into the series and now we are 1-0 up in the final. We believe in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get a certain amount of cachet. The more people that know about your stuff, the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34580]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get a certain amount of cachet. The more people that know about your stuff, the better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Independence now: and Independence forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Independence now: and Independence forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lost a friend, almost a person. He has helped make the track as popular as he is -- not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lost a friend, almost a person. He has helped make the track as popular as he is -- not only in Louisiana, but Texas people, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Mississippi. We want to name a race after him and we want to bury him on the track.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is yesterday's pupil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is yesterday's pupil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All married women are not wives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61567]]></link><description><![CDATA[All married women are not wives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, but make haste, the better foot before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55159</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[Almes never make poore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almes never make poore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49112</guid></item></channel></rss>