<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks; Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.  The founder's you: the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks; Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.  The founder's you: the table is the place:   The carvers we: the prologue is the grace.    Each act, a course, each scene, a different dish,     Though we're in Lent, I doubt you're still for flesh.      Satire's the sauce, high-season'd, sharp and rough.       Kind masks and beaux, I hope you're pepperproof?        Wit is the wine; but 'tis so scarce the true         Poets, like vintners, balderdash and brew.          Your surly scenes, where rant and bloodshed join.           Are butcher's meat, a battle's sirloin:            Your scenes of love, so flowing, soft and chaste,             Are water-gruel without salt or taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53772]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52931]]></link><description><![CDATA[He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872   We do not cease to be children because we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872   We do not cease to be children because we are disobedient children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of guys who are versatile. That's what keeps you in this league sometimes, and we've just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42406]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of guys who are versatile. That's what keeps you in this league sometimes, and we've just got to show that again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31908]]></link><description><![CDATA[This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next step will be ... how do we choose among those options and how do we pay for it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52385]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's real life is often the life that one does not lead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53222]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's real life is often the life that one does not lead]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good friends are like stars...you don't always see them, but you know they're always there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good friends are like stars...you don't always see them, but you know they're always there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16745]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2885]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cisco has been slow to adopt SIP. It has become clear to them, though, that SIP is becoming standard in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cisco has been slow to adopt SIP. It has become clear to them, though, that SIP is becoming standard in the industry. If Cisco wants to go after the small end of this market, in particular, it realizes it has to move forward with this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45541]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived in our ancestors 1,000 years ago, and those ancestors are still living in us]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59692]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13750]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40476]]></link><description><![CDATA[If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let yourself be controlled by these three things: your past, people, and money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let yourself be controlled by these three things: your past, people, and money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man can master a grief but he that has it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man can master a grief but he that has it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Value is what people are willing to pay for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Value is what people are willing to pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You hate to see a superstar go beyond that point where he should. I have such a positive memory, that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38623]]></link><description><![CDATA[You hate to see a superstar go beyond that point where he should. I have such a positive memory, that's my concern. If people start talking about how he shouldn't be playing, it would devalue his marketability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51753]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46520]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They just had that one inning. That was a high school baseball inning. They got walks and errors and one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32481]]></link><description><![CDATA[They just had that one inning. That was a high school baseball inning. They got walks and errors and one hit. You don't see a lot of teams stringing six and seven hits together to score runs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65059]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some things that are not the way they should be, and even the indicators that are 'best-ever' status ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34097]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some things that are not the way they should be, and even the indicators that are 'best-ever' status have room for improvement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I am a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail,  Where'er the surge may sweep, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12063]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I am a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail,  Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44187]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that's a disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bodies were in such bad shape they said there was no other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39306]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bodies were in such bad shape they said there was no other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. [Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10655]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. [Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've cut out their tongues andthe larks can no longer singthe birds can no longer flythey've cut off their wingsand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20928]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've cut out their tongues andthe larks can no longer singthe birds can no longer flythey've cut off their wingsand in their next liveslarks and birds will becomethose who've cut offlarks' tongues and bird wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45713]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35765]]></link><description><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.'']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was very big pressure for me to be very thin, because I was very tall. I was so lonely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39503]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was very big pressure for me to be very thin, because I was very tall. I was so lonely for my family, so far away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2162]]></link><description><![CDATA[One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39004]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I were to become suddenly rich and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61410]]></link><description><![CDATA[You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I were to become suddenly rich and powerful. Who can determine what would be his future conduct? Tell me, if you were to become a lion, what sort of a lion would you be?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65678]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24193</guid></item></channel></rss>