<?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[Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe, And stupid at the wondrous things he saw,  Surpassing common faith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe, And stupid at the wondrous things he saw,  Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will have no other master but our caprice -- that is to say, our evil self will have no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6597]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will have no other master but our caprice -- that is to say, our evil self will have no God, and the foundation of our nature is seditious, impious, refractory, opposed to and contemptuous of all that tries to rule it, and therefore contrary to order, ungovernable and negative. It is this foundation which Christianity calls the natural man. But the savage which is within us, and constitutes the primitive stuff of us, must be disciplined and civilized in order to produce a man. And the man must be patiently cultivated to produce a wise man; and the wise man must be tested and tried if he is to become righteous, and the righteous man must have substituted the will of God for his individual will, if he is to become a saint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chatham was a game that we easily could have won, but we allowed them to score with one second left. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chatham was a game that we easily could have won, but we allowed them to score with one second left. You just can't allow something like that to happen at the end of the game. Against Falmouth, I really like the effort we put forth against one of the elite teams in the area. We played right with them for a long stretch of the game, but we eventually just got tired and they took advantage of our mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The writer] warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38664]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The writer] warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/805]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was back and forth all game, and we had no downturns. We only missed two serves in three games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31199]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was back and forth all game, and we had no downturns. We only missed two serves in three games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our days and nights Have sorrows woven with delights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our days and nights Have sorrows woven with delights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The name change is in the best interest of our corporation. We want to present a new image for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42410]]></link><description><![CDATA[The name change is in the best interest of our corporation. We want to present a new image for the company as we continue to grow in the trucking and logistics business. We believe that the current name presents a limiting impression of the nature of our business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power concedes nothing without a demand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power concedes nothing without a demand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect of the release on gasoline prices is limited. Refineries are producing at full capacity and more crude will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect of the release on gasoline prices is limited. Refineries are producing at full capacity and more crude will not lead to more gasoline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have shown that regenerative medicine techniques can be used to generate functional bladders that are durable. This suggests that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29519]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have shown that regenerative medicine techniques can be used to generate functional bladders that are durable. This suggests that regenerative medicine may one day be a solution to the shortage of donor organs in this country for those needing transplants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Answer me in one word. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Answer me in one word. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With what knot shall I bind this Proteus, who is ever shifting his ground? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50396]]></link><description><![CDATA[With what knot shall I bind this Proteus, who is ever shifting his ground?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the dwellings framed by birds In field or forest with nice care,  Is none that with the little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the dwellings framed by birds In field or forest with nice care,  Is none that with the little wren's   In snugness may compare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to have to be in a scoring race. We have to be high scoring, and that's not us. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36103]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to have to be in a scoring race. We have to be high scoring, and that's not us. They're a great offensive team, so we're going to have to counter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40478]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardens are a form of autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardens are a form of autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63985]]></link><description><![CDATA[To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge of a jest when you have done laughing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been very aggressive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30802]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been very aggressive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can say Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and Hekmatyar represent a threat to the world and we believe we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45312]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can say Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and Hekmatyar represent a threat to the world and we believe we will catch them within the next year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. -King Henry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55882]]></link><description><![CDATA[To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25416]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a lifelong experience. Experience is a lifelong education. Education plus experience equals expertise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a lifelong experience. Experience is a lifelong education. Education plus experience equals expertise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may. -The Merry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55343]]></link><description><![CDATA[All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56020]]></link><description><![CDATA[O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155   Grace tried is better than grace, and it is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155   Grace tried is better than grace, and it is more than grace, it is glory in its infancy. I now see godliness is more than the outside and this world's passments and their buskings [i.e., ornaments and fine dress]. Who knoweth the truth of grace without a trial? O how little getteth Christ of us, but that which he winneth (to speak so) with much toil and pains! And how soon would faith freeze without a cross?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56608]]></link><description><![CDATA[What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes foreducation is not education at all but ritual. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22477]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes foreducation is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we arebeing educated when we know it least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deal legitimizes India as a nuclear power and Pakistan of course is getting nothing of the sort. It has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deal legitimizes India as a nuclear power and Pakistan of course is getting nothing of the sort. It has left Pakistan feeling exposed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.   - John Ruskin, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48202]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.   - John Ruskin,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/484</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[The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. -Victor Frank. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6088]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. -Victor Frank.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23729]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linnets . . . sit On the dead tree, a dull despondent flock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Linnets . . . sit On the dead tree, a dull despondent flock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26586]]></link><description><![CDATA[One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BellSouth is delivering solid revenue growth and strong earnings growth. BellSouth's earnings for the quarter reflect the value of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34074]]></link><description><![CDATA[BellSouth is delivering solid revenue growth and strong earnings growth. BellSouth's earnings for the quarter reflect the value of our asset mix as the industry continues to undergo a transition to new services and new competition emerges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he [Archie Bunker] is in every man my age, no matter what he does, whether he's a vice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he [Archie Bunker] is in every man my age, no matter what he does, whether he's a vice president at Chase or a cab driver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19902]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the "market" in which the "workers" find "jobs," and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49702</guid></item></channel></rss>