<?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[It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23466]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55033]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53201]]></link><description><![CDATA[All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never hit a ball that far that didn't go over a fence. I think it really got us going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never hit a ball that far that didn't go over a fence. I think it really got us going and helped carry us a little bit. It was a great day today to be in this atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And lo and behold, people were amazed: Washington was amazed. The country was amazed. And I was amazed that everybody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61232]]></link><description><![CDATA[And lo and behold, people were amazed: Washington was amazed. The country was amazed. And I was amazed that everybody was amazed. Because what is going on that a senator doesn't act according to script, acts according to conscience, and everybody is taken aback?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43089]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they scored first, as a coach I was rethinking what we were doing. We got a couple nice [goals] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31293]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they scored first, as a coach I was rethinking what we were doing. We got a couple nice [goals] after that and found our offensive legs a bit more. I think the key was trying to play more forward, play a little more direct offensively.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bond market is very excited about this inflation data. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bond market is very excited about this inflation data.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care. I've been saying that the whole time. We're blessed to be playing in this tournament regardless. I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care. I've been saying that the whole time. We're blessed to be playing in this tournament regardless. I'd love to [get a chance to] play [Villanova], because I think we can show our toughness. I look forward to the challenge. We worked hard to get here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything starts with the customer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything starts with the customer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll probably trend a little bit lower [in the next couple of weeks]. A lot of the gains have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28345]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll probably trend a little bit lower [in the next couple of weeks]. A lot of the gains have been on positive comments made by companies like Dell and IBM, but I think a lot of this reflects market-share shifts rather than a recovery in the overall market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Press bravely onward!--not in vain Your generous trust in human kind;  The good which bloodshed could not gain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Press bravely onward!--not in vain Your generous trust in human kind;  The good which bloodshed could not gain   Your peaceful zeal shall find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63416]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singing and rejoicing, As aye since time began,  The dying earth's last poet   Shall be the earth's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Singing and rejoicing, As aye since time began,  The dying earth's last poet   Shall be the earth's last man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to have a powerful earnings turn around this year to justify gains from current levels, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37130]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to have a powerful earnings turn around this year to justify gains from current levels,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shrine of the mighty! can it be, That this is all remains of thee? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shrine of the mighty! can it be, That this is all remains of thee?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O blithe New-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice;  O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10818]]></link><description><![CDATA[O blithe New-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice;  O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,   Or but a wandering Voice?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this is a crush, then I don't know if I could take the real thing if it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10937]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this is a crush, then I don't know if I could take the real thing if it happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vaine is the mill-clacke, if the Miller his hearing lack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49553]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vaine is the mill-clacke, if the Miller his hearing lack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party  To the church doth hie!   Bell, thou soundest solemnly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party  To the church doth hie!   Bell, thou soundest solemnly,    When, on Sabbath morning,     Fields deserted lie!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then they began to sing That extremely lovely thing,  "Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then they began to sing That extremely lovely thing,  "Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,  This longing after immortality? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,  This longing after immortality?   Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror,    O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul     Back on herself, and startles at destruction?      'Tis the divinity that stirs within us;       'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter,        And intimates eternity to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A financier is a pawn-broker with imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15690]]></link><description><![CDATA[A financier is a pawn-broker with imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment. Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54988]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46991]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our mayor, who was very busy last year learning how to be a mayor, this year actually took a wonderful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our mayor, who was very busy last year learning how to be a mayor, this year actually took a wonderful leadership role, got into the budget with both feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1860]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63609]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43260]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  Every other creature in nature is simply itself, without this discord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  Every other creature in nature is simply itself, without this discord which is our constant lot. That is why we can study everything else in nature much more surely than we can study ourselves. With ourselves, all we have to go on is an occasional glimpse of some small part of the truth, and we must be content with that, knowing that we are truly known by Him who alone knows us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This method gives us an incredible map of the ubiquitous but very diffuse types of disturbances that exist in Brazil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36179]]></link><description><![CDATA[This method gives us an incredible map of the ubiquitous but very diffuse types of disturbances that exist in Brazil or in any tropical forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ajax the great . . . Himself a host. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ajax the great . . . Himself a host.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9177]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9177</guid></item></channel></rss>