<?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[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36465]]></link><description><![CDATA[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26359]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence is always on the side of the last reserve ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence is always on the side of the last reserve]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49852]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55563]]></link><description><![CDATA[A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea is as near as we come to another world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea is as near as we come to another world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are the keys of paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are the keys of paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop the I. When that's all you have to say, it is very tedious and self-promoting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop the I. When that's all you have to say, it is very tedious and self-promoting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No vacation goes unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59585]]></link><description><![CDATA[No vacation goes unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods /moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former /but no opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition is a guide and not a jailer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition is a guide and not a jailer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's just a ball hog. He probably could be our best player on offense, but we need him on defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33451]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's just a ball hog. He probably could be our best player on offense, but we need him on defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have one message for those cowards, the killers that actually did what they did last week: There's no place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29717]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have one message for those cowards, the killers that actually did what they did last week: There's no place you could hide; there's no place in this region where it's going to be safe for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9203]]></link><description><![CDATA[No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are a guarantee against fraud. Improving competence involves continuing professional development ... That is the really crucial thing, not just passing an examination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man with courage makes a majority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10289]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man with courage makes a majority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series of verse on Christ:   ... They haled him, trembling, to the Judgement Seat.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series of verse on Christ:   ... They haled him, trembling, to the Judgement Seat.  "O Lord, behold the man who made the nails that pierced Thy feet!"  The Master laid a thin, scarred hand upon the shame-bowed head.  "They were good nails," he said...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A royal train, believe me. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A royal train, believe me. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen,  Did cause their clergy, with lustrations  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45335]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen,  Did cause their clergy, with lustrations   . . . .    The round-fac'd prodigy t' avert,     From doing town or country hurt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time only flies when you're having fun and dying, it's flying right now and I'm definitely not the former. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time only flies when you're having fun and dying, it's flying right now and I'm definitely not the former.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36277]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46782]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11862]]></link><description><![CDATA[For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14848]]></link><description><![CDATA[A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we had some good looks early. We just missed them. If we make those shots we might get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41928]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we had some good looks early. We just missed them. If we make those shots we might get off on a roll.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valuations remain a little stretched, and we could see some further weakness into the early part of the year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valuations remain a little stretched, and we could see some further weakness into the early part of the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11391]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the dead bury the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the dead bury the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The building will provide a state of the art performance hall and a rehearsal space for musical performance and instruction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The building will provide a state of the art performance hall and a rehearsal space for musical performance and instruction for large orchestral ensembles and choral groups.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The findings show that we have a significant majority of respondents who have been with us for more than 10 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The findings show that we have a significant majority of respondents who have been with us for more than 10 years, so we are very good at keeping hold of people once they come to us. Even so, issues were raised about the availability of career breaks, flexible working and working from home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would be lucky if we see even five pence (9 cents) in the pound ($1.82). That's probably understating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38481]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would be lucky if we see even five pence (9 cents) in the pound ($1.82). That's probably understating it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were in the parking lot getting ready to walk in and everybody came running out and they said: `People ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32168]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were in the parking lot getting ready to walk in and everybody came running out and they said: `People are shooting!,']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. [Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare columbas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12807]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. [Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare columbas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Thirty days to each affix;  Every other thirty-one,   Except the second month ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Thirty days to each affix;  Every other thirty-one,   Except the second month alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43025</guid></item></channel></rss>