<?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[Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13600]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divorce should be the last possible option, rather than something we should be smoothing the passage to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divorce should be the last possible option, rather than something we should be smoothing the passage to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection! -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55618]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection! -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59430]]></link><description><![CDATA[No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3879]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy in bed. It is a myth invented by jealous foreigners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14306]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God overridesat times thescreenplay ofHer starscript. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5555]]></link><description><![CDATA[God overridesat times thescreenplay ofHer starscript.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any woman could act like a lady, and this behavior was interpreted as being submissive, demure, inhibited...Being a lady in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any woman could act like a lady, and this behavior was interpreted as being submissive, demure, inhibited...Being a lady in the Western world was like footbinding in China.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He laughs best who laughs last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24215]]></link><description><![CDATA[He laughs best who laughs last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18123]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God save the mark. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55844]]></link><description><![CDATA[God save the mark. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be doing as much as we can on a case. Every case should be an investigation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28646]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be doing as much as we can on a case. Every case should be an investigation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56892]]></link><description><![CDATA[In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10899]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting men are the city's fortress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting men are the city's fortress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It didn't take long. I saw early on that he was a guy who was going to be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33172]]></link><description><![CDATA[It didn't take long. I saw early on that he was a guy who was going to be able to play for us, with his talent and abilities, and he had worked hard to get in shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is the first necessity of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is the first necessity of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship can sometimes end in love, but love in friendship, never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship can sometimes end in love, but love in friendship, never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. Joy is simply perfect acquiescence in God's will, because the soul delights itself in God himself... rejoice in the will of God, and in nothing else. Bow down your heads and your hearts before God, and let the will, the blessed will of God, be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16876]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's general. What should we fear? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51321]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's general. What should we fear?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, the gift of nature, Love, the gift of life, a Kiss, the gift of Love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, the gift of nature, Love, the gift of life, a Kiss, the gift of Love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush, you must confess that you have been defeated in Iraq and in Afghanistan and you will be in Palestine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bush, you must confess that you have been defeated in Iraq and in Afghanistan and you will be in Palestine soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had the devil come to our first parents personally and unmasked, they would have more easily seen the deception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had the devil come to our first parents personally and unmasked, they would have more easily seen the deception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not  I've tried, alas! its power to prove,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/162]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not  I've tried, alas! its power to prove,   But thou art not forgot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/162</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But owned that smile, if oft observed and near, Waned in its mirth, and wither'd to a sneer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56674]]></link><description><![CDATA[But owned that smile, if oft observed and near, Waned in its mirth, and wither'd to a sneer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I doubt the garrulous archive bequeathed us by the tape recorder will prove as memorable as Henry James's thank-you notes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I doubt the garrulous archive bequeathed us by the tape recorder will prove as memorable as Henry James's thank-you notes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessite,  And take it weel, that we may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessite,  And take it weel, that we may not eschu,   And namely that that to us alle is due.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46992]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62803]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think other benefits are being utilized today more often than sabbaticals as retention tools. Instead of giving us six ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think other benefits are being utilized today more often than sabbaticals as retention tools. Instead of giving us six weeks off a year, employees are demanding more day to day flexibility, like the ability to telecommute, flex-time and child care or elder-care benefits. Those are the other areas where we are seeing real growth, while sabbaticals are sort of going up and down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40257</guid></item></channel></rss>