<?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[Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42992]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47408]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Life is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24982]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. -Groucho Marx.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I grabbed his arm and twisted it up behind his head and said 'Now who's asking the questions?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56434]]></link><description><![CDATA[The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men who make history have not time to write it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men who make history have not time to write it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54269]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43470]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, 'No.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fail your way to the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fail your way to the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44973]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot go into operational details, but I can tell you that we are going only after terrorists and terrorist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32597]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot go into operational details, but I can tell you that we are going only after terrorists and terrorist centers, and their infrastructure. We are not going there against the Palestinian people. We are there just to uproot terror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He really cares about South Florida, ... He took charge and took care of business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31040]]></link><description><![CDATA[He really cares about South Florida, ... He took charge and took care of business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31040</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, prosperity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21716]]></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/21716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44335]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can call spirits from the vasty deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2789]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can call spirits from the vasty deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes people play hard to get to know that the other person's feelings are real ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes people play hard to get to know that the other person's feelings are real]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most scientists - no matter what they're doing, good or bad - never get any attention at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most scientists - no matter what they're doing, good or bad - never get any attention at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57161]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to finish when I fold my hand and go up to the big poker game in the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28604]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to finish when I fold my hand and go up to the big poker game in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got a tough team, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33493]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got a tough team,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22409]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who letwell enough alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22667]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who letwell enough alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch; Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth; Between two blades, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch; Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth; Between two blades, which bears the better temper; Between two horses, which doth bear him best; Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,— I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment; But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw. -King Henry VI. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2244]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39018]]></link><description><![CDATA[the only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I can feel one of my turns coming on.I feel cold as a razor blade,Tight as a tourniquet,Dry as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15473]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I can feel one of my turns coming on.I feel cold as a razor blade,Tight as a tourniquet,Dry as a funeral drum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56704]]></link><description><![CDATA[His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. ]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16549]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill;  There's music in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43444]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill;  There's music in all things, if men had ears:   Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8783]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By many indignities we come to dignities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50973]]></link><description><![CDATA[By many indignities we come to dignities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62868]]></link><description><![CDATA[What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62868</guid></item></channel></rss>