<?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 people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47590]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism is prejudice made plausible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism is prejudice made plausible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26122]]></link><description><![CDATA[As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34248]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music must rank as the highest of the arts -- more than any other, it ministers to human welfare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music must rank as the highest of the arts -- more than any other, it ministers to human welfare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thief believes everybody steals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46974]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thief believes everybody steals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird  Always gayest of the gay,   Though a woodland roundelay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird  Always gayest of the gay,   Though a woodland roundelay    You ne'er sung not heard;     Though your life from youth to age      Passes is a narrow cage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They always say they're going to cut back my ice time. Well, I don't want them to do that. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32836]]></link><description><![CDATA[They always say they're going to cut back my ice time. Well, I don't want them to do that. I want to force them to play me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is not in a position to be able to assist us adequately with his defense. So hopefully in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39131]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is not in a position to be able to assist us adequately with his defense. So hopefully in the next six months or so he'll be in a position where he fully understands what's going on and he's able to offer the type of assistance that we need to represent him in this case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't look for more honor than your learning merits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest cure for vanity is loneliness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest cure for vanity is loneliness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have a measure of abundance or population density of a single snake in Africa. We need that information ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35948]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have a measure of abundance or population density of a single snake in Africa. We need that information to make well-founded decisions about how threatened species are and we don't have it... it's a big conservation need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assumptions are the termites of relationships. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assumptions are the termites of relationships.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea thatpossesses the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22671]]></link><description><![CDATA[A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea thatpossesses the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe in life's message; follow your hearts desired fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe in life's message; follow your hearts desired fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7728]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is safety in numbers. [Lat., Defendit numerus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44707]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is safety in numbers. [Lat., Defendit numerus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze;  Like children with violets playing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze;  Like children with violets playing,   In the shade of the whispering trees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It used to be just the opposite. It used to be us watching them. We know about the established program ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37477]]></link><description><![CDATA[It used to be just the opposite. It used to be us watching them. We know about the established program they have (in baseball). Now, we're trying to establish something on this side of the street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5001]]></link><description><![CDATA[My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will the animated avatars come out on the market? Yes. Will people buy them? Yes. They're fun and entertaining. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will the animated avatars come out on the market? Yes. Will people buy them? Yes. They're fun and entertaining. But there's a limit to what consumers will spend -- they're already buying games, ring tones, videos, and music. The average cell-phone bill is already around $50. And consumers have shown [a willingness] to spend an extra 5% to 10% a month for data services. But they're not going to spend an unlimited amount for more and more services.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your views on the world and your intellect are being challengedand you begin to feel uncomfortable because of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22397]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your views on the world and your intellect are being challengedand you begin to feel uncomfortable because of a contradiction you'vedetected that is threatening your current model of the world or someaspect of it, pay attention. You are about to learn something. Thisdiscomfort and intellectual conflict is when learning is taking place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dally not with mony or women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dally not with mony or women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14006]]></link><description><![CDATA[With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illustrious predecessors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illustrious predecessors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me also remind you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14784]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me also remind you that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64118]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We were very lucky. We started Spy at a time when our generation had arrived at full adulthood and wanted to connect to its anti-establishment youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We introduced a new category in this year's competition, which is for the window which is (decorated) the most fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39449]]></link><description><![CDATA[We introduced a new category in this year's competition, which is for the window which is (decorated) the most fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi' favours secret, sweet and precious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi' favours secret, sweet and precious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a mediocre person is always at his best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a mediocre person is always at his best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you look at a list of companies we serve . . . you start to get a feel for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36785]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you look at a list of companies we serve . . . you start to get a feel for what we are able to do in customizing our training to meet your needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65819]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  If I want only pure water, what does it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6939</guid></item></channel></rss>