<?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[Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books had instant replay long before televised sports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is sitting on their hands. No-one wants to play with everyone calling a 25 basis points rate rise on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is sitting on their hands. No-one wants to play with everyone calling a 25 basis points rate rise on Wednesday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your toong in your purse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your toong in your purse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63973]]></link><description><![CDATA[I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9117]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   I desire now to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth me nothing; for in my bonds, how sweet and comfortable have the thoughts of him been to me, wherein I find a sufficient recompense of reward!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44974]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/376]]></link><description><![CDATA[High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That sounds like we're doing short-track or something. This is an extremely close competition. I think it's the first time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30054]]></link><description><![CDATA[That sounds like we're doing short-track or something. This is an extremely close competition. I think it's the first time we've been in a competition where it was this close. It just makes everything count that much more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you look at a list of companies we serve . . . you start to get a feel for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36785]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you look at a list of companies we serve . . . you start to get a feel for what we are able to do in customizing our training to meet your needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Katie and (catcher Eryn) Richardson did a great job. Katie was hitting her spots and Eryn kept them off balance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Katie and (catcher Eryn) Richardson did a great job. Katie was hitting her spots and Eryn kept them off balance with the pitch selection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say "hullo."  Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19951]]></link><description><![CDATA[W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say "hullo."  Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do,"   "How's the world a-usin' you?"    . . . .     W'en you travel through the strange      Country t'other side the range,       Then the souls you've cheered will know        Who you be, an' say "hullo."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has hay on his horns. [Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2543]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has hay on his horns. [Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42901]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50920]]></link><description><![CDATA[And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning "of the spirit" or "inspired." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5673]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning "of the spirit" or "inspired." It's about letting God's light shine through us. It's about a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects. To let go, to just love, is not to fade into the wallpaper. Quite the contrary, it's when we truly become bright. We're letting our own light shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're kind of working it out. You're going to see a lot of the guests on the album [live on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32348]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're kind of working it out. You're going to see a lot of the guests on the album [live on stage].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54118]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6022]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you have done it is like a part of yourself that you've put together. I think a lot of the people here feel that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to understand; understand to judge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63600]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it would be a really good chance for us to get to know her and her to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33862]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it would be a really good chance for us to get to know her and her to get to know us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man convinced against his will, Is of the some opinion still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48709]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man convinced against his will, Is of the some opinion still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's in a name? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51472]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's in a name?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they say, the name of God may be on it. Though there was a little superstition in this, yet truly there is nothing but good religion in it, if we apply it to men. Trample not on any; there may be some work of grace there, that thou knowest not of. The name of God may be written upon that soul thou treadest on; it may be a soul that Christ thought so much of, as to give His precious blood for it; therefore despise it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11171]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26534]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. [Fr., La satire ment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. [Fr., La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et l'eloge ment apres leur mort.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush led cabinet meetings like a blind man in a roomful of deaf peoplePaul O'Neill is the former Secretary of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bush led cabinet meetings like a blind man in a roomful of deaf peoplePaul O'Neill is the former Secretary of the Treasuryand was quoted in an interview.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The cancer treatment, combined with a bout of flu last year, left Farrakhan feeling] weak and drained, ... He was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28257]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The cancer treatment, combined with a bout of flu last year, left Farrakhan feeling] weak and drained, ... He was not his usual, energetic self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue  Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56550]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue  Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath   Rides on the posting winds and doth belie    All corners of the world. Kings, queens. and states,     Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave      This viperous slander enters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42537]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. [Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. [Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32007]]></link><description><![CDATA[My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Smith and his penny both are black. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Smith and his penny both are black.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The technology these cameras run on is unsurpassed even now. What's surpassed is the hardware, and we're replacing that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The technology these cameras run on is unsurpassed even now. What's surpassed is the hardware, and we're replacing that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33204</guid></item></channel></rss>