<?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[Tariff: a scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tariff: a scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The University brings out all abilities, including incapability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That should be regarded as a loss, which is won at the expense of our reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51631]]></link><description><![CDATA[That should be regarded as a loss, which is won at the expense of our reputation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10287]]></link><description><![CDATA[O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight  Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes;   For more of those who shrink from shame are safe    Than fall in battle, while with those who flee     Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the industry is indeed vulnerable because what they are doing is not right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42425]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the industry is indeed vulnerable because what they are doing is not right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. [Lat., Facito aliquid operis, ut semper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. [Lat., Facito aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus inveniat occupatum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who flies at the right time can fight again. [Lat., Celuy qui fuit bonne heure  Peut combattre derechef.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61119]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who flies at the right time can fight again. [Lat., Celuy qui fuit bonne heure  Peut combattre derechef.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,  A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium   Nudus castra peto.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19261]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's just one to throw away in the trash, pick it up tomorrow and play solid baseball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32650]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's just one to throw away in the trash, pick it up tomorrow and play solid baseball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority justifies their doing whatever they please with the world, just the way Hitler’s mythology of Aryan superiority justified his doing whatever he pleased with Europe. But in the end this mythology is not deeply satisfying. The Takers are a profoundly lonely people. The world for them is enemy territory, and they live in it like an army of occupation, alienated and isolated by their extraordinary specialness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to try to do some things, and send some things over there also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39011]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to try to do some things, and send some things over there also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37259]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as many people (with disabilities) here as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49252]]></link><description><![CDATA[For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A loving heart is the truest wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63271]]></link><description><![CDATA[A loving heart is the truest wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53827]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price declines will come from improved domestic supply along with lower scrap and metallic costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38639]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price declines will come from improved domestic supply along with lower scrap and metallic costs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4269]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was so surprised. I was hoping (he'd propose) sometime in the future, but not in February. I had just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was so surprised. I was hoping (he'd propose) sometime in the future, but not in February. I had just moved a few months ago, so I wasn't thinking he'd propose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault, Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51347]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault, Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50921]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22062]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41684]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with the voices as a free obbligato above it, ... That just drives me crazy. I want the vocal line to be as much the core as the bass line. I want to create the illusion that the voice generates harmony, color, line, everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4432]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our old Pleasures die, Some new One still is nigh;  Oh! fair Variety! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60433]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our old Pleasures die, Some new One still is nigh;  Oh! fair Variety!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46303]]></link><description><![CDATA[No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9306]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.   - Philip James Bailey, Festus ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.   - Philip James Bailey, Festus]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know it sounds overused, but truthfully, each department is interdependent upon the other. You couldn't have done it without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32887]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know it sounds overused, but truthfully, each department is interdependent upon the other. You couldn't have done it without physicians, hospital board and staff members, city council all different stakeholder groups consistently working together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impartially their talents scan, Just education forms the man.   - John Gay, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impartially their talents scan, Just education forms the man.   - John Gay,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had good preparation because of it. It was kind of a wakeup call for a lot of the guys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36126]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had good preparation because of it. It was kind of a wakeup call for a lot of the guys that are back and for the coaches and everybody. I feel like we have something to go out and prove -- that we're better than what we did last year, more than anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute,  From the centre all round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute,  From the centre all round to the sea,   I am lord of the fowl and the brute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54461</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[Heaven, no. I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven, no. I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian sausage-of the spicy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian sausage-of the spicy variety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You only lose what you cling to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4954]]></link><description><![CDATA[You only lose what you cling to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4954</guid></item></channel></rss>