<?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[I never knew what a reporter looked like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34121]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never knew what a reporter looked like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleverness is not wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleverness is not wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He doesn't want to do it where he's asked questions about this by opponents, ... The nature of science is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36395]]></link><description><![CDATA[He doesn't want to do it where he's asked questions about this by opponents, ... The nature of science is to submit your ideas for scrutiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness  And in the taste confounds the appetite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness  And in the taste confounds the appetite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/96]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/96</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48017]]></link><description><![CDATA[And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm getting a trainer. But not to lose anything, because I like being a little thicker! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31768]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm getting a trainer. But not to lose anything, because I like being a little thicker!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48445]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59289]]></link><description><![CDATA[To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eagles soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eagles soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had three chances to win the ballgame, and we blew all three of them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32329]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had three chances to win the ballgame, and we blew all three of them,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more thou dam'st it up, the more it burns. The current that with gentle murmur glides,  Thou know'st, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more thou dam'st it up, the more it burns. The current that with gentle murmur glides,  Thou know'st, being stopped, impatiently doth rage;   But when his fair course is not hindered,    He makes sweet music with th' enameled stones,     Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge,      He overtaketh in his pilgrimage.       And so by many winding nooks he strays        With willing sport to the wild ocean.         Then let me go and hinder not my course.          I'll be as patient as a gentle stream           And make a pastime of each weary step,            Till the last step have brought me to my love;             And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil              A blessed soul doth in Elysium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big things have small beginnings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big things have small beginnings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8619]]></link><description><![CDATA[A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22965]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is silvern, silence is golden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is silvern, silence is golden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a pretty good game. The refs called two penalties at the end and it helped us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42302]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a pretty good game. The refs called two penalties at the end and it helped us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look to rotate them because they are about the same in ability and all three are inexperienced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look to rotate them because they are about the same in ability and all three are inexperienced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59610]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48652]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As fierce as hell, or fiercer still, A woman piqued who has her will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48722]]></link><description><![CDATA[As fierce as hell, or fiercer still, A woman piqued who has her will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle   We may suffer the sins of our brother; we do not need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle   We may suffer the sins of our brother; we do not need to judge. This is a mercy for the Christian; for when does sin ever occur in the community that he must not examine and blame himself for his own unfaithfulness in prayer and intercession, his lack of brotherly service, of fraternal reproof and encouragement -- indeed, for his own personal sin and spiritual laxity, by which he has done injury to himself, the fellowship, and the brethren? Since every sin of a member burdens and indicts the whole community, the congregation rejoices, in the midst of all the pain and the burden that the brother's sin inflicts, that it has the privilege of bearing and forgiving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it's real money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it's real money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That will be the third time we'll have bowled each other this week. We're in the same league Monday and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37698]]></link><description><![CDATA[That will be the third time we'll have bowled each other this week. We're in the same league Monday and Wednesday nights and, oddly, our teams were scheduled against each other both nights. He kicked our butts Monday night, so I'll have to try to get him back. But he's a great bowler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, [our] leading indicators clearly show that the U.S. economy is in a window of vulnerability. This means that, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, [our] leading indicators clearly show that the U.S. economy is in a window of vulnerability. This means that, depending on the course of oil prices and geopolitical events, the economy can be easily tipped into a new recession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is popular deserves attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is popular deserves attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In your free time, you will choose who to hang out with. If you were to show me your friends, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41768]]></link><description><![CDATA[In your free time, you will choose who to hang out with. If you were to show me your friends, I could tell you your future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a very bad time for the arts. I think we're in a tough time in our culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a very bad time for the arts. I think we're in a tough time in our culture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a state of consciousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a state of consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65674]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usually you can point the finger at the consumers of intel ... the political and military leaders ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usually you can point the finger at the consumers of intel ... the political and military leaders]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17145]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.   - George Washington,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is still a pretty benign report overall and broadly in line with Bank of England expectations contained in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36609]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is still a pretty benign report overall and broadly in line with Bank of England expectations contained in the February Inflation Report.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mariana in the moated grange. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mariana in the moated grange.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51705</guid></item></channel></rss>