<?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 more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more costly it is for governments to kill them. Evidence indicates that governments respond to this economic incentive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an attempt to sabotage the process set in motion, ... a silver lining has started to appear in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34849]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an attempt to sabotage the process set in motion, ... a silver lining has started to appear in the dark clouds of violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the voice of strange command Calling you still, as friend calls friend,  With love that cannot brook ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43303]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the voice of strange command Calling you still, as friend calls friend,  With love that cannot brook delay,   To rise and follow the ways that wend    Over the hills and far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65379]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This whole thing has gone beyond the likely scenario. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30046]]></link><description><![CDATA[This whole thing has gone beyond the likely scenario.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very fond of water: It ever must delight  Each mother's son and daughter,--   When qualified aright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very fond of water: It ever must delight  Each mother's son and daughter,--   When qualified aright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joy late coming late departs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joy late coming late departs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44800]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he said she said' sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64005]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8859]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kyle's another one of those guys that's out to prove you wrong. You can't question how hard he wrestles. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kyle's another one of those guys that's out to prove you wrong. You can't question how hard he wrestles. When he gets done with a match you always know he's gave it his all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In show business, you get chewed up and spit out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38611]]></link><description><![CDATA[In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these  Who worship dirty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61423]]></link><description><![CDATA[All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these  Who worship dirty gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is power if you know about the right person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is power if you know about the right person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order for rapid population growth to matter, a nation must steadily create good, decent- paying jobs to benefit from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36687]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order for rapid population growth to matter, a nation must steadily create good, decent- paying jobs to benefit from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You train and train and train for one match. You only have four two-minute rounds ? that's eight minutes ? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29153]]></link><description><![CDATA[You train and train and train for one match. You only have four two-minute rounds ? that's eight minutes ? to show what you've got.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;  An' what he thought 'e ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46641]]></link><description><![CDATA[When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;  An' what he thought 'e might require,   'E went an' took--the same as me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible. -- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got blamed for penalty after penalty after penalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36133]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got blamed for penalty after penalty after penalty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't see a lot of helicopters or concrete trucks this year, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33928]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't see a lot of helicopters or concrete trucks this year,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was old and fat when I started, ... This makes you young ---- and not fat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33266]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was old and fat when I started, ... This makes you young ---- and not fat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9688]]></link><description><![CDATA[True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unconscious humor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unconscious humor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On me, on me Time and change can heap no more!  The painful past with blighting grief   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18333]]></link><description><![CDATA[On me, on me Time and change can heap no more!  The painful past with blighting grief   Hath left my heart a withered leaf.    Time and change can do no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's too early to determine if alcohol or drugs were a contributing factor, or if the driver of the van ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31870]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's too early to determine if alcohol or drugs were a contributing factor, or if the driver of the van may have fallen asleep,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio plus facunda.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no clear reasons and I am not going to make one up to explain the recent strengthening of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40854]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no clear reasons and I am not going to make one up to explain the recent strengthening of Epsilon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair ruins some, presumption many ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair ruins some, presumption many]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16447]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me fail english? Thats unpossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me fail english? Thats unpossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some preparations are now in progress to assure the smooth organization of the meeting, and 'Management of Migratory Flows' has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some preparations are now in progress to assure the smooth organization of the meeting, and 'Management of Migratory Flows' has been selected theme of the meeting,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6022]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1093]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She would have made Hercules have turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10146]]></link><description><![CDATA[She would have made Hercules have turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. -Roy L. Smith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45516]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. -Roy L. Smith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some Chicago neighborhoods, looking for a parking space is not unlike panning for gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5873]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some Chicago neighborhoods, looking for a parking space is not unlike panning for gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2440]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of kids get caught in a gap. They think they're going to college, but when they graduate, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33190]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of kids get caught in a gap. They think they're going to college, but when they graduate, they have a job or are not sure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33190</guid></item></channel></rss>