<?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[You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8838]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He assigned it to regions more than tropical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48939]]></link><description><![CDATA[He assigned it to regions more than tropical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The existing road is the most dangerous elevated structure in California. Its replacement is a very high priority as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42408]]></link><description><![CDATA[The existing road is the most dangerous elevated structure in California. Its replacement is a very high priority as a matter of safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is influence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is influence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well. [Lat., Parvus pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere, in desolate, wind-swept space, In twilight land, in no man's land,  Two hurrying shapes met face to face ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere, in desolate, wind-swept space, In twilight land, in no man's land,  Two hurrying shapes met face to face   And bade each other stand.    "And who are you?" cried one, a-gape,     Shuddering in the glimmering light.      "I know not," said the second shape,       "I only died last night."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But few prize honour more than money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51068]]></link><description><![CDATA[But few prize honour more than money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12124]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17193]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42926]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66046]]></link><description><![CDATA[We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My appetite comes to me while eating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2900]]></link><description><![CDATA[My appetite comes to me while eating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, we do it to showcase our products to celebrities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, we do it to showcase our products to celebrities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14775]]></link><description><![CDATA[An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The driver (of the Mobil truck) was soaked in gas, ... He had tried to stop it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The driver (of the Mobil truck) was soaked in gas, ... He had tried to stop it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mordre wol out, that see we day by day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mordre wol out, that see we day by day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main goal is to find out what's going on out there in rural Iowa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39920]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main goal is to find out what's going on out there in rural Iowa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby andsay, "How can we screw this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby andsay, "How can we screw this kid up.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things out. And she just started to copy what I was doing. Of course, as she got better at it, I would show her the 3-d aspect of shading or how to render perspective ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â and she could just do it. She would just pick it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10873]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21430]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government has an arsenal of pressure points. Individually, he might have tried each of these cases, but the culmination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government has an arsenal of pressure points. Individually, he might have tried each of these cases, but the culmination of looking at multiple trials is burdensome for any defendant. The government only has to win one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47360]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57035]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars are caused by undefended wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars are caused by undefended wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valor consists in the power of self recovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valor consists in the power of self recovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told her it was the best she'd ever played: 1 for 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37390]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told her it was the best she'd ever played: 1 for 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. -Colette. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14792]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. -Colette.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55832]]></link><description><![CDATA[In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe what we do here is help you develop that sense of what is right and what is wrong. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe what we do here is help you develop that sense of what is right and what is wrong. We don't want to dictate morality to people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we're going to see jobs collapse or disappear. There is a bit of fear in the air ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we're going to see jobs collapse or disappear. There is a bit of fear in the air with what's been going on with oil prices and the hurricane that there's going to be some kind of collapse. But I think this economy is resilient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20334]]></link><description><![CDATA[What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13168]]></link><description><![CDATA[He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63027]]></link><description><![CDATA[For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is action in rehearsal ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is action in rehearsal]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always the more beautiful answer who asks the more beautiful question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always the more beautiful answer who asks the more beautiful question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47962]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47962</guid></item></channel></rss>