<?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[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43209]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a king, that was to this   Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother    That he might not beteem the winds of heaven     Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,      Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him       As if increase of appetite had grown        By what it fed on, and yet within a month--         Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman--          A little month, or ere those shoes were old           With which she followed my poor father's body            Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she--             O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason              Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle,               My father's brother, but no more like my father                Than I to Hercules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man thinks, God directs. [Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man thinks, God directs. [Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26747]]></link><description><![CDATA[I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66807]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which two will, takes effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49789]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which two will, takes effect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this new technology, we are able to detect openings in the forest canopy down to just one or two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36180]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this new technology, we are able to detect openings in the forest canopy down to just one or two individual trees. People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Harris Teeter looks for is a certain demographic, household income and education level, and Columbia really fit the demographic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39958]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Harris Teeter looks for is a certain demographic, household income and education level, and Columbia really fit the demographic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She (Alonso) wrote checks, gave them to friends, family members, businesses ... they cashed them and gave back cash to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31038]]></link><description><![CDATA[She (Alonso) wrote checks, gave them to friends, family members, businesses ... they cashed them and gave back cash to the tune of $10,000, $18,000, $11,000 in cash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. [Lat., L'invidia, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. [Lat., L'invidia, figliuol mio, se stessa macera,  E si dilegua come agnel per fascino.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48460]]></link><description><![CDATA[No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a veteran guy, get his bat in the lineup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34865]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a veteran guy, get his bat in the lineup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15533]]></link><description><![CDATA[February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can\'t ride you unless your back is bent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises; Somewhat the deed, much more the means he raises:  So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48006]]></link><description><![CDATA[When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises; Somewhat the deed, much more the means he raises:  So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64295]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one;  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one;  And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream;   And what is it all, when all is done?    The net of the fisher the burden breaks,     And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that fights and runs away, Will live to fight another day;  For he that runs may fight again, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50943]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that fights and runs away, Will live to fight another day;  For he that runs may fight again,   Which he can never do that's slain.    Deeper to wound she shuns the fight;     She drops her arms, to gain the field:      Secures her conquest by her flight:       And triumphs when she seems to yield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...one of the most notable characteristics of any Age of Conflict is the effort to achieve economic expansion by political ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47264]]></link><description><![CDATA[...one of the most notable characteristics of any Age of Conflict is the effort to achieve economic expansion by political rather than by economic means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8746]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64186]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a kingly act to help the fallen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50735]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a kingly act to help the fallen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was sitting at home going through everything we need to do, but I kept coming to the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38613]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was sitting at home going through everything we need to do, but I kept coming to the money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price for independence is often isolation and solitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth--in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27500]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth--in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world--have not any subsistence without a mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13275]]></link><description><![CDATA[My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -But the pain of griefIs only a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -But the pain of griefIs only a shadowWhen compared with the painOf never risking love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752   The purpose of the covenant, in the Hebrew Bible and some subsequent writings, was never simply that the creator wanted to have Israel as a special people, irrespective of the fate of the rest of the world. The purpose of the covenant was that, through this means, the creator would address and save his entire world. The call of Abraham was designed to undo the sin of Adam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7950</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[Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9545]]></link><description><![CDATA[INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56200]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since yesterday I have been in Alcala. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,  When that dull distance shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since yesterday I have been in Alcala. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,  When that dull distance shall no more divide us;   And I no more shall scale thy wall by night    To steal a kiss from thee, as I do now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14628</guid></item></channel></rss>