<?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 old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5088]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15839]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion of fear and pain will eventually make him sell badly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect year-on-year inflation this month (December) to stand at around 18 percent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect year-on-year inflation this month (December) to stand at around 18 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and the CranesSome cranes made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat. For a long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and the CranesSome cranes made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat. For a long time the Farmer, brandishing an empty sling, chased them away by the terror he inspired; but when the birds found that the sling was only swung in the air, they ceased to take any notice of it and would not move. The Farmer, on seeing this, charged his sling with stones, and killed a great number. The remaining birds at once forsook his fields, crying to each other, It is time for us to be off to Liliput: for this man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show us in earnest what he can do. If words suffice not, blows must follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With deep affection And recollection  I often think of   Those Shandon bells,    Whose sounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4124]]></link><description><![CDATA[With deep affection And recollection  I often think of   Those Shandon bells,    Whose sounds so wild would,     In the days of childhood,      Fling round my cradle       Their magic spells.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tortured for the Republic. [Lat., Strangulatus pro republica.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tortured for the Republic. [Lat., Strangulatus pro republica.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is a passionate intuition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is a passionate intuition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50863]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold it true,what'er befall;I feel it, when I sorrow most;'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25354]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold it true,what'er befall;I feel it, when I sorrow most;'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all. - In Memoriam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Norman is the guy we've been waiting to sign. He comes from a quality program; Coach Emmanuel Davis does a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Norman is the guy we've been waiting to sign. He comes from a quality program; Coach Emmanuel Davis does a great job in Headland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48610]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I still think China has a lot of problems that will hinder the growth and development of the chip ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32195]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I still think China has a lot of problems that will hinder the growth and development of the chip production industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man over forty is a scoundrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man over forty is a scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19875]]></link><description><![CDATA[HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. [Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare columbas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12807]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. [Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare columbas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. -The Merchant of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is well paid that is well satisfied, And I delivering you am satisfied,  And therein do account myself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54732]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is well paid that is well satisfied, And I delivering you am satisfied,  And therein do account myself well paid;   My mind was never yet more mercenary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors  To study fashions to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors  To study fashions to adorn my body:   Since I am crept in favor with myself,    I will maintain it with some little cost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace be with you. [Vulgate Lat., Pax vobiscum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace be with you. [Vulgate Lat., Pax vobiscum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn't make sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61734]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn't make sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. -Graham Green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45504]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. -Graham Green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27100]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15831]]></link><description><![CDATA[The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you're not at your best, but all that matters is two points. This was a perfect example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you're not at your best, but all that matters is two points. This was a perfect example.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24942]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -Crowfoot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. - The Summing Up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27813]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. - The Summing Up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is not human hearted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is not human hearted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks,  Turn all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks,  Turn all her mother's pains and benefits   To laughter and contempt, that she may feel    How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is     To have a thankless child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42067]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42067</guid></item></channel></rss>