<?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[Who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foolish tongues talke by the dozen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird that hath been limed in a bush With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird that hath been limed in a bush With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17249]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At some point the army is going to react and then the LTTE will retaliate. They have set in motion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36731]]></link><description><![CDATA[At some point the army is going to react and then the LTTE will retaliate. They have set in motion a process. At some point the bubble is bound to burst and then we do not know what will happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any girl can be glamorous; all you have to do is stand still and look stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any girl can be glamorous; all you have to do is stand still and look stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8859]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54010]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have a president who is our agenda-setter, so we have multiple voices on every issue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40348]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have a president who is our agenda-setter, so we have multiple voices on every issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make a defence or apology before you be accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really staggering to stand there on that slab on what was their City Hall and you look around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30441]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really staggering to stand there on that slab on what was their City Hall and you look around 360 degrees and you see nothing there that could be salvaged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24587]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really happy that I didn't see Capote until after we wrapped because I probably just would have been daunted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really happy that I didn't see Capote until after we wrapped because I probably just would have been daunted because he was so remarkable in that movie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44270]]></link><description><![CDATA[On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46587]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65788]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Kerry's position and my position are not very different about what we would do. Interestingly enough, neither is George ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17386]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Kerry's position and my position are not very different about what we would do. Interestingly enough, neither is George Bush's position because George Bush adopted John Kerry's position after John Kerry won the primaries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about always showing new stuff. Do not become stagnant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about always showing new stuff. Do not become stagnant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diligence is the mother of good fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diligence is the mother of good fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62360]]></link><description><![CDATA[And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My guys didn't come on time to get taped, so the five guys that were here started. It's a discipline ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38713]]></link><description><![CDATA[My guys didn't come on time to get taped, so the five guys that were here started. It's a discipline thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get people excited and there's a trickle-down effect. Just the names create interest. Robert Cray (who will perform at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38524]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get people excited and there's a trickle-down effect. Just the names create interest. Robert Cray (who will perform at the Grand in August), and national artists like that, I love seeing that kind of stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4437]]></link><description><![CDATA[This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The engines for growth are not only early-stage life science and information technology, but additions and expansion, taking existing companies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The engines for growth are not only early-stage life science and information technology, but additions and expansion, taking existing companies to a hundred employees and more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33134]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27017]]></link><description><![CDATA[By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. - "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Really, they should go back to school and learn something new and use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Really, they should go back to school and learn something new and use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The faults of his adored escape the notice of the blind admirer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50341]]></link><description><![CDATA[The faults of his adored escape the notice of the blind admirer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47714]]></link><description><![CDATA[True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44252]]></link><description><![CDATA[SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45737]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe God has a plan. God has a direction for me. He may put me on a few detours, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe God has a plan. God has a direction for me. He may put me on a few detours, but the path with ultimately reveal itself. My job is to be a decent human being no matter how rocky the road gets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13531]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11536</guid></item></channel></rss>