<?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[If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15955]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to film is that it's an illusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to film is that it's an illusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sendeth cold after clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51918]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sendeth cold after clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has many years of experience in this field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28967]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has many years of experience in this field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55916]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974  What will move you? Will pity? Here is distress never the like. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974  What will move you? Will pity? Here is distress never the like. Will duty? Here is a person never the like. Will fear? Here is wrath never the like. Will remorse? Here are sins never the like. Will kindness? Here is love never the like. Will bounty? Here are benefits never the like. Will all these? Here they be all, all in the highest degree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28023]]></link><description><![CDATA[In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is often times a lot of speculation about what is the real belief college students have about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is often times a lot of speculation about what is the real belief college students have about the war in Iraq, and we're trying to give people that sort of information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just vengeance does not call for punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just vengeance does not call for punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think not I am what I appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think not I am what I appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists who follow after genius - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is in fact history on the run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is in fact history on the run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On all the peaks lies peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27967]]></link><description><![CDATA[On all the peaks lies peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a Christmas tree .. the perfect giftfor a guy... the plant is already dead(monologue Dec 10 2003). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20094]]></link><description><![CDATA[a Christmas tree .. the perfect giftfor a guy... the plant is already dead(monologue Dec 10 2003).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61044]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13438]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A watch is the most important piece of jewelry you can wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41810]]></link><description><![CDATA[A watch is the most important piece of jewelry you can wear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night,  And swelling like an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night,  And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright,   Fated, methought, to round as to a golden cup,    And hold to my two lips life's best of wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285  Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts,  Thou fount of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285  Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts,  Thou fount of life, thou Light of men,  From the best bliss that earth imparts  We turn unfilled to Thee again.  We taste Thee, O Thou living Bread,  And long to feast upon Thee still:  We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead,  And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.   O Jesus, ever with us stay,  Make all our moments calm and bright;  Chase the dark night of sin away,  Shed o'er the world Thy holy light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24659]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23939]]></link><description><![CDATA[To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey, Alive and wriggling in the elastic net,  Which Nature hung beneath their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey, Alive and wriggling in the elastic net,  Which Nature hung beneath their grasping beaks;   Till, swoln, with captures, the unwieldy burden    Clogg'd their slow flight, as heavily to land,     These mighty hunters of the deep return'd.      There on the cragged cliffs they perch'd at ease,       Gorging their hapless victims one by one;        Then full and weary, side by side, they slept,         Till evening roused them to the chase again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine?  The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14972]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine?  The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?--   They sought a faith's pure shrine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46781]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing spoils a confession like repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was a compound creature, half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62688]]></link><description><![CDATA[HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was, therefore, only one quarter eagle, which is $2.50 in gold. Zoology is full of surprises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18635]]></link><description><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atlanta? I think it's the greatest city anywhere I know of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Atlanta? I think it's the greatest city anywhere I know of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were computer programmer, I do black box and white box testing before the applications launched ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30136]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were computer programmer, I do black box and white box testing before the applications launched]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3955]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20693]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great fight. It was a hard win for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29052]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great fight. It was a hard win for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47087]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was screaming and grabbing his leg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40133]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was screaming and grabbing his leg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. [Sp., No arrojemos la soga tras el caldero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. [Sp., No arrojemos la soga tras el caldero.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men have more consideration for themselves than for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51733]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men have more consideration for themselves than for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement -- and we will make the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live is to love; all reason is against it; instinct is for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25832]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live is to love; all reason is against it; instinct is for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25832</guid></item></channel></rss>