<?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[In short, he and the Scotch have no way of redeeming the credit of their understandings, but by avowing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54898]]></link><description><![CDATA[In short, he and the Scotch have no way of redeeming the credit of their understandings, but by avowing that they have been consummate villains. Stavano bene; per star meglio, stanno qui.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16219]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe,  Hews down and fells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46167]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe,  Hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45829]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17165]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get this shot maybe once in a lifetime. You don't want to let this opportunity to pass you by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31506]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get this shot maybe once in a lifetime. You don't want to let this opportunity to pass you by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many things which a person can do alone, but being a Christian is not one of them. As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7992]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many things which a person can do alone, but being a Christian is not one of them. As the Christian life is, above all things, a state of union with Christ, and of union of his followers with one another, love of the brethren is inseparable from love of God. Resentment toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart with love to God. The personal relationship to Christ can only be realized when one has "come to himself" as a member of His Body, the Christian fellowship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of man is a winter way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49885]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of man is a winter way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65274]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13506]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television networks don't deliver the audiences that they did a year ago or five years ago and yet (ad) prices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television networks don't deliver the audiences that they did a year ago or five years ago and yet (ad) prices continue to go up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm speechless and so happy to be in the finals. As a kid, I always looked up to people above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32182]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm speechless and so happy to be in the finals. As a kid, I always looked up to people above me to see what they could do. I think I passed some of them, most of them, and I'm happy about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2320]]></link><description><![CDATA[But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47175]]></link><description><![CDATA[No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64851]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17529]]></link><description><![CDATA[In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They contacted us, and they've been pretty honest about their progress, or lack thereof. I guess a phone book was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38935]]></link><description><![CDATA[They contacted us, and they've been pretty honest about their progress, or lack thereof. I guess a phone book was hard to come by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[''I do have sort of a spiritual center now that I didn't havebefore,'' says Earle. ''But my spirituality is real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17696]]></link><description><![CDATA[''I do have sort of a spiritual center now that I didn't havebefore,'' says Earle. ''But my spirituality is real retarded. Itbasically consists of `I believe there is a God, and it ain't me.'It's simple, but it works.''source: Boston Globe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a long way to Albuquerque or El Paso. It's not as tight a core, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38868]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a long way to Albuquerque or El Paso. It's not as tight a core,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The skips (elevators) that once lifted about 4 tons of salt to the surface were eventually replaced with hydraulic hoists ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The skips (elevators) that once lifted about 4 tons of salt to the surface were eventually replaced with hydraulic hoists that can bring up as much as 19 tons,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will either find a way, or make one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21196]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will either find a way, or make one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more beautiful life than that of a student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1113]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to look closely at how to fairly distribute the burden in Juneau. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to look closely at how to fairly distribute the burden in Juneau.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an extremely small percentage, although the impact - when a teacher engages in this - on the student, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30502]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an extremely small percentage, although the impact - when a teacher engages in this - on the student, the parents and the community is widespread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw her I as undone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51840]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw her I as undone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's easy to see, hard to foresee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60843]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's easy to see, hard to foresee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No book was ever written down by any but itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53878]]></link><description><![CDATA[No book was ever written down by any but itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47301]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sean: My wife used to fart when she was nervous. She had all sorts of wonderful little idiosyncrasies. She used ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sean: My wife used to fart when she was nervous. She had all sorts of wonderful little idiosyncrasies. She used to fart in her sleep. I thought I’d share that with you. One night it was so loud it woke the dog up. She woke up and went ‘ah was that you?’ And I didn’t have the heart to tell her. Oh!Will: She woke herself up?Sean: Ah...! But Will, she’s been dead for 2 years, and that's the shit I remember: wonderful stuff you know? Little things like that. Those are the things I miss the most. The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that's what made her my wife. Oh she had the goods on me too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but there not. Ah, that's the good stuff.~ Robin Williams as Sean Maguire, Matt Damon as Will Hunting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["If you don't mind me asking," came the bell-like tones of the Golden Diana, "I'd like to know where you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44437]]></link><description><![CDATA["If you don't mind me asking," came the bell-like tones of the Golden Diana, "I'd like to know where you got that City Hall brogue. I did not know that Liberty was necessarily Irish." "If ye'd studied the history of art in its foreign complications, ye'd not need ask," replied Mrs. Liberty, "If ye wasn't so light and giddy ye'd know that I was made by a Dago and presented to the American people on behalf of the French Government for the purpose of welcomin' Irish immigrants into the Dutch city of New York. 'Tis that I've been doing night and day since I was erected."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19569]]></link><description><![CDATA[To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19569</guid></item></channel></rss>