<?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[Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse,  Not more distinct from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse,  Not more distinct from harmony divine   The constant creaking of a country sign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no facts, only interpretations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14879]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no facts, only interpretations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercie ever hope to have? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercie ever hope to have?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things to their proper places. [Lat., Deus haec fortasse benigna  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things to their proper places. [Lat., Deus haec fortasse benigna  Reducet in sedem vice.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The base salaries for all management employees are being reviewed with those below market to be adjusted. I haven't heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The base salaries for all management employees are being reviewed with those below market to be adjusted. I haven't heard of any downward adjustment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63816]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14244]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2379]]></link><description><![CDATA["The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn." --George Washington]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26345]]></link><description><![CDATA[At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide:  If aught do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide:  If aught do touch the utmost thread of it,   She feels it instantly on every side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wallet of the timid man neither increases nor decreases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wallet of the timid man neither increases nor decreases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind)  To scorn delights, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind)  To scorn delights, and live laborious days;   But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,    And think to burst out into sudden blaze,     Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears,      And slits the thin-spun life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that everyone would feel that a renegotiation that allows for a percentage of revenue would be the optimal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that everyone would feel that a renegotiation that allows for a percentage of revenue would be the optimal outcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is absolute highway robbery and it really does show that the agency doesn't have a clue in getting real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39739]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is absolute highway robbery and it really does show that the agency doesn't have a clue in getting real value of contracts. I've done the math in my head 100 times and I don't know how they computed this cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing particular to say about why we didn't prosecute. What I remember is the police report said there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing particular to say about why we didn't prosecute. What I remember is the police report said there was a problem in determining how much money was missing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy, like fire, soars upward. [Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy, like fire, soars upward. [Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16346]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of an ordinance in the first few months is to serve as an education process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of an ordinance in the first few months is to serve as an education process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a fine man Hath your tailor made you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58566]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a fine man Hath your tailor made you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47680]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers with dependent children can be sternly lectured on the need for self-reliance, but not dependent executives and investors, please. For them, the welfare state must flourish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You mean the producer is the guy who was telling me, 'Move along, sir, three feet from the rail?' ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32911]]></link><description><![CDATA[You mean the producer is the guy who was telling me, 'Move along, sir, three feet from the rail?' ... I want someone with musical experience to tell me that I (stink).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;  An' what he thought 'e ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46641]]></link><description><![CDATA[When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;  An' what he thought 'e might require,   'E went an' took--the same as me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51128]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40636]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16798]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54164]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance lends enchantment to the view ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance lends enchantment to the view]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no original truth, only original error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53390]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no original truth, only original error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Abram Brown is dead and gone,-- You'll never see him more;  He used to wear a long brown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Abram Brown is dead and gone,-- You'll never see him more;  He used to wear a long brown coat   That buttoned down before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1000]]></link><description><![CDATA[To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will it be fun? Of course, man. Jack is Jack and we haven't seen him in a while. But there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will it be fun? Of course, man. Jack is Jack and we haven't seen him in a while. But there's one big difference in this clubhouse. You don't catch a whiff of cigar smoke anymore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58395]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud of the girls fighting back and keeping with it. It was neat to see that they fought and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41726]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud of the girls fighting back and keeping with it. It was neat to see that they fought and came back. We could've folded up shop after that goal in the first minute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue,  Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58796]]></link><description><![CDATA[What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue,  Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to itand helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces -- self-denial, readiness to the cross -- they all work and help faith. Yet when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do. Not to be surprised with any thing is the substance of human wisdom; not to be surprised with death is a great part of the substance of our spiritual wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of getting things done is to act! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of getting things done is to act!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/637</guid></item></channel></rss>