<?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 man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato,--the only good belonging ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato,--the only good belonging to him is under ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That perfect devoting ourselves to God, from which devotion has its name, requires that we should not only do the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6550]]></link><description><![CDATA[That perfect devoting ourselves to God, from which devotion has its name, requires that we should not only do the will of God, but also that we should do it with love. "He loveth a cheerful giver," and without the heart no obedience is acceptable to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what's going on. It's just sickness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38913]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what's going on. It's just sickness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't be happier and more grateful that they happened to come to Los Angeles, which has been my hometown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41576]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't be happier and more grateful that they happened to come to Los Angeles, which has been my hometown for so long. That they are now here is just too good for words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live out of your imagination, not your history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live out of your imagination, not your history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the infrastructure that has decayed, deteriorated and been obliterated has to be rebuilt. The situation that created the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38479]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the infrastructure that has decayed, deteriorated and been obliterated has to be rebuilt. The situation that created the great players was unfettered access to courts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masters, spread yourselves. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Masters, spread yourselves. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the gloamin' o' the wood The throssil whusslit sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59253]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the gloamin' o' the wood The throssil whusslit sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32001]]></link><description><![CDATA[One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roche is providing innovation. I could not care less about the hundreds of anti high-blood pressure products. This drug looks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roche is providing innovation. I could not care less about the hundreds of anti high-blood pressure products. This drug looks like it will literally give women a new lease of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/885]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is the feeling of grinning inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's absolutely outrageous. It's not going to help people lose weight. It's junk science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39747]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's absolutely outrageous. It's not going to help people lose weight. It's junk science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26527]]></link><description><![CDATA[I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear the sound of closing doors. Everybody a mathematician?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46982]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's become an embarrassment of a sort. [Having elections] was not something the UAE wanted to be behind in. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28271]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's become an embarrassment of a sort. [Having elections] was not something the UAE wanted to be behind in. They see themselves as leaders. They also found out you can't have a global city and a closed one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21998]]></link><description><![CDATA[An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The families coming up here will be people who want to escape New Orleans and other Gulf Coast areas permanently, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The families coming up here will be people who want to escape New Orleans and other Gulf Coast areas permanently,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent does not invariably create a desire for change. Other factors have to be present before discontent turns into disaffection. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent does not invariably create a desire for change. Other factors have to be present before discontent turns into disaffection. One of these is a sense of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in vain, 0 men, that you seek within yourselves the cure for your miseries. All your insight only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7816]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in vain, 0 men, that you seek within yourselves the cure for your miseries. All your insight only leads you to the knowledge that it is not in yourselves that you will discover the true and the good. The philosophers promised them to you, and have not been able to keep their promises... Your principal maladies are pride, which cuts you off from God, and sensuality, which binds you to the earth; and they have done nothing but foster at least one of these maladies. If they have given you God for your object, it has only been to pander to your pride; they have made you think that you were like Him and resembled Him by your nature. And those who have grasped the vanity of such a pretension have cast you down into the other abyss by making you believe that your nature was like that of the beasts of the field, and have led you to seek your good in lust, which is the lot of animals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44735]]></link><description><![CDATA[One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a good strategic platform for taking off in the U.S.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30170]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a good strategic platform for taking off in the U.S..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it tolife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22348]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it tolife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in a holding pattern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32332]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in a holding pattern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acquisition is significant because it contains stunning ancient redwood trees in an area of the redwood range where there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acquisition is significant because it contains stunning ancient redwood trees in an area of the redwood range where there is relatively little old growth left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35192]]></link><description><![CDATA['Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital "T". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46553]]></link><description><![CDATA[When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital "T".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You’re through. Finished. Burned out. Used up. You’ve been replaced. . . forgotten. That’s a lie! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4997]]></link><description><![CDATA[You’re through. Finished. Burned out. Used up. You’ve been replaced. . . forgotten. That’s a lie!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34932]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's definitely a lot more pressure there [the Olympics], but I'm really looking forward to it. I think it's going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42087]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's definitely a lot more pressure there [the Olympics], but I'm really looking forward to it. I think it's going to be a really good experience. I can remember looking back watching my first Olympics when I was like 10 years old, so it's cool to be a part of it now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nice to get everyone playing time, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39907]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nice to get everyone playing time,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare. People are telling us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare. People are telling us they can't afford to get the care they need, because Medicare supplemental policies are too expensive, medications are too expensive, and they are having trouble with special needs if they are in HMOs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends. -Theocritus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends. -Theocritus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8883]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We compound our suffering by victimizing each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27713]]></link><description><![CDATA[We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27713</guid></item></channel></rss>