<?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[The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9039]]></link><description><![CDATA[The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil spelled backward is live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil spelled backward is live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66559]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3698]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have asked (commission economists) to give me interim forecasts twice a year as well as the standard forecasts that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37998]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have asked (commission economists) to give me interim forecasts twice a year as well as the standard forecasts that we get twice a year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has called us to shine, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7109]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has called us to shine, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one say that he cannot shine because he has not so much influence as some others may have. What God wants you to do is to use the influence you have. Daniel probably did not have much influence down in Babylon at first, but God soon gave him more because he was faithful and used what he had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56411]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In silence, . . . Steals on soft-handed Charity,  Tempering her gifts, that seem so free,   By ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5702]]></link><description><![CDATA[In silence, . . . Steals on soft-handed Charity,  Tempering her gifts, that seem so free,   By time and place,    Till not a woe the bleak world see,     But finds her grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11863]]></link><description><![CDATA[A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were inadvertently sending a message to the public that they were not welcome. We do want everyone in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34140]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were inadvertently sending a message to the public that they were not welcome. We do want everyone in the museum and we want to create a comfortable place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My voice stuck in my throat. [Lat., Vox faucibus haesit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60928]]></link><description><![CDATA[My voice stuck in my throat. [Lat., Vox faucibus haesit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57163]]></link><description><![CDATA[But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,  And roam along, the world's tired denizen,   With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smile of God is victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smile of God is victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above our life we love a steadfast friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above our life we love a steadfast friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil of beak and added claw,   The meagre food that scarce thy want allays!    And this--to gratify the gloating gaze     Of fools, who value Nature not a straw,      But know to prize the infraction of her law       An hard perversion of her creatures' ways!        Thee the wild woods await, in leaves attired,         Where notes of liquid utterance should engage          Thy bill, that now with pain scant forage earns.   - Julian C.H. Fane,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt--and children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt--and children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So well she acted all and every part By turns--with that vivacious versatility,  Which many people take for want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5643]]></link><description><![CDATA[So well she acted all and every part By turns--with that vivacious versatility,  Which many people take for want of heart.   They err--'tis merely what is call'd mobility,    A thing of temperament and not of art,     Though seeming so, from its supposed facility;      And false--though true; for surely they're sincerest       Who are strongly acted on by what is nearest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan  Under my battlements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52984]]></link><description><![CDATA[The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan  Under my battlements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a fun night for the guys. This was our last home game, so it was important for everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39030]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a fun night for the guys. This was our last home game, so it was important for everyone to get some playing time and have some fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Farewell!" For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er  We promise--hope--believe--there breathes despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19767]]></link><description><![CDATA["Farewell!" For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er  We promise--hope--believe--there breathes despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came back here today (with the distractions) taking the approach that this is another away game. We're trying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37476]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came back here today (with the distractions) taking the approach that this is another away game. We're trying to stay with the same routine, and hopefully not get caught up in all that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17453]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, demonstrate through personal example what you expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14411]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No nation has friends only interests ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43726]]></link><description><![CDATA[No nation has friends only interests]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I give you money and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I can't imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. To some skeptical friend, 'Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut, I've got the documentation right here... It's in my file at home. ...Under "D".']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having done lifestyle books and being an actress, I suppose it made sense to bring the two together. I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having done lifestyle books and being an actress, I suppose it made sense to bring the two together. I think that's what happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fighter has to know fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fighter has to know fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is how she came into contact with the organization which allowed her to become a fighter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35847]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is how she came into contact with the organization which allowed her to become a fighter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. [Lat., Graviora quae patiantur videntur jam hominibus quam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. [Lat., Graviora quae patiantur videntur jam hominibus quam quae metuant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   I shall think it mercy to my soul, if my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   I shall think it mercy to my soul, if my faith shall out-watch all this winter-night, and not nod or slumber, till my Lord's summer-day dawn upon me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61827]]></link><description><![CDATA[This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should compete with most anyone in the league. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39962]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should compete with most anyone in the league.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is slow suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is slow suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41501]]></link><description><![CDATA[My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Scientists investigate that which already is;Engineers create that which has never been.'' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13892]]></link><description><![CDATA["Scientists investigate that which already is;Engineers create that which has never been.'']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13892</guid></item></channel></rss>