<?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[When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58536]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satisfy a few to please many is bad. [Ger., Mach' es Wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satisfy a few to please many is bad. [Ger., Mach' es Wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15001]]></link><description><![CDATA[As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the movies brought the war into it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41679]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the movies brought the war into it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is research, but a blind date with knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9430]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is research, but a blind date with knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63165]]></link><description><![CDATA[No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny. [Lat., Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si cito neges.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23765]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny. [Lat., Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si cito neges.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62258]]></link><description><![CDATA[You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He assembled a management team who, under his skilled leadership, guided American through the early days of deregulation and built ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35680]]></link><description><![CDATA[He assembled a management team who, under his skilled leadership, guided American through the early days of deregulation and built it into one of the world's preeminent airlines,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who the Gods would destroy First they would make angry Haliburton -Greek. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who the Gods would destroy First they would make angry Haliburton -Greek.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played good enough to win. I liked how we responded. We just have to do a better job in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38023]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played good enough to win. I liked how we responded. We just have to do a better job in each phase of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The police are not going to run this court. The defendants are not going to run this court. The defense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The police are not going to run this court. The defendants are not going to run this court. The defense attorneys are not going to run this court. The district attorney is not going to run this court. I'm going to run this court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. -Buddha.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had some good looks ... and nothing dropped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31284]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had some good looks ... and nothing dropped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47402]]></link><description><![CDATA[All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind;  And while it satisfies, it censures too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27562]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind;  And while it satisfies, it censures too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cow knowes not what her taile is worth, till she have lost it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49825]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cow knowes not what her taile is worth, till she have lost it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18731]]></link><description><![CDATA['Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50063]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19683]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56200]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As our everyday lives become more hectic, customers are increasingly looking for hassle-free financial products that save both time and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33015]]></link><description><![CDATA[As our everyday lives become more hectic, customers are increasingly looking for hassle-free financial products that save both time and money. Living for Less is a unique mortgage package that does exactly that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be neat to get together old-time people who went to a small-town school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33069]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be neat to get together old-time people who went to a small-town school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She wore a wreath of roses, The night that first we met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54418]]></link><description><![CDATA[She wore a wreath of roses, The night that first we met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9815]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I'm in the area, I like to pay them a visit and update them on the partnership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I'm in the area, I like to pay them a visit and update them on the partnership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who are participating in this boycott are simply letting everybody know that we have an impact. The people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who are participating in this boycott are simply letting everybody know that we have an impact. The people organizing this want to make sure the message is positive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64567]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27283]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47253]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?" When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd been playing a lot lately and there was nothing on the line. It was kind of a practice round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30430]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd been playing a lot lately and there was nothing on the line. It was kind of a practice round and the kids had more of a free-swinging attitude. Some guys ballooned up a little and some played well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52153]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus once declared that God is "good to the ungrateful and the wicked" (St. Luke 6:35), and I remember preaching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus once declared that God is "good to the ungrateful and the wicked" (St. Luke 6:35), and I remember preaching a sermon on this text to a horrified and even astonished congregation who simply refused to believe (so I gathered afterwards) in this astounding liberality of God. That God should be in a state of constant fury with the wicked seemed to them only right and proper, but that God should be kind towards those who were defying or disobeying His laws seemed to them a monstrous injustice. Yet I was but quoting the Son of God Himself, and I only comment here that the terrifying risks that God takes are part of His Nature. We do not need to explain or modify His unremitting love towards mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judy's view is that any purported waiver she got from anyone was not on the face of it sufficiently broad, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judy's view is that any purported waiver she got from anyone was not on the face of it sufficiently broad, clear and uncoerced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course  Yea, rags most beggarly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course  Yea, rags most beggarly, they clothe the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62617]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had a good opinion of advice, Like all who give and eke receive it gratis,  For which small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/775]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had a good opinion of advice, Like all who give and eke receive it gratis,  For which small thanks are still the market price,   Even where the article at highest rate is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/775</guid></item></channel></rss>