<?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[We played our best game of the year tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31309]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played our best game of the year tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort and remembered with nostalgia ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60306]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort and remembered with nostalgia]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60306</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[We want to encourage third-party developers who will take the architecture and modify the design to suit specific markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34797]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to encourage third-party developers who will take the architecture and modify the design to suit specific markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9281]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would have the kernel must crack the shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50868]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would have the kernel must crack the shell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61868]]></link><description><![CDATA[She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He attempts to use language which he does not know. [Lat., Negatas artifex sequi voces.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25131]]></link><description><![CDATA[He attempts to use language which he does not know. [Lat., Negatas artifex sequi voces.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,  For there thy habitation is the heart-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,  For there thy habitation is the heart--   The heart which love of thee alone can bind;    And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd--     To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom,      Their country conquers with their martyrdom.   - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lynn Swann respects the historic legacy of labor in Pennsylvania. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lynn Swann respects the historic legacy of labor in Pennsylvania.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9773]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It means a lot to me to have the honor to sing at the School Board meeting. I take it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40480]]></link><description><![CDATA[It means a lot to me to have the honor to sing at the School Board meeting. I take it pretty seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49086]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44780]]></link><description><![CDATA[This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17731]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching and learning go hand and hand and to achieve student learning I believe that it is essential to engage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching and learning go hand and hand and to achieve student learning I believe that it is essential to engage the students. To achieve this, I make use of video, computer animations, PowerPoint and any other multimedia tool I can find. If you engage the class, active learning will follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,  Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18582]]></link><description><![CDATA[His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,  Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,   But strong for service still, and unimpair'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27902]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going around the city, seeing the signs, with John Tyler and things like that, it showed us the entire city ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going around the city, seeing the signs, with John Tyler and things like that, it showed us the entire city just came right in there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13013]]></link><description><![CDATA[No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12927]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people in Barrow thought we would starve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38895]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people in Barrow thought we would starve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9305]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere; the perpetually busy man does not get much further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere; the perpetually busy man does not get much further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you make a mistake and miss your fate? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  As the devil showed great skill in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  As the devil showed great skill in tempting men to perdition., equal skill ought to be shown in saving them. The devil studied the nature of each man, seized upon the traits of his soul, adjusted himself to them and insinuated himself gradually into his victims's confidence -- suggesting splendors to the ambitious, gain to the covetous, delight to the sensuous, and a false appearance of piety to the pious -- and a winner of souls ought to act in the same cautious and skillful way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47739]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every thing is of use to a houskeeper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every thing is of use to a houskeeper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning is strength withheld. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning is strength withheld.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved. [Lat., Felix se nescit amari.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved. [Lat., Felix se nescit amari.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to go out and find that match, and we've gotten some support from various foundations and endowments so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37547]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to go out and find that match, and we've gotten some support from various foundations and endowments so far, but we have a long row to hoe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is either free or he is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16661]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is either free or he is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gas situation is a concern. But we'll meet our obligations. If the gas prices remain high, as I said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38237]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gas situation is a concern. But we'll meet our obligations. If the gas prices remain high, as I said, we may have to look at canceling a trip or cutting the schedule down by a couple of games for next season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11358]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This assassination will not undermine our efforts to impose law and public order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41286]]></link><description><![CDATA[This assassination will not undermine our efforts to impose law and public order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It might be donated to charity or it might be held at auction. Or if it's something in bad condition, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40696]]></link><description><![CDATA[It might be donated to charity or it might be held at auction. Or if it's something in bad condition, then it would just be disposed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12263</guid></item></channel></rss>