<?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[Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52290]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen is when the bull jumps, he sets you up so that you lean way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen is when the bull jumps, he sets you up so that you lean way back,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to approach each game the same, just with a blue-collar mentality, and sometimes I get into foul trouble. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to approach each game the same, just with a blue-collar mentality, and sometimes I get into foul trouble. Sometimes I don't [get into foul trouble], and tonight I didn't, and I was able to stay on the floor. I was able to do what I do, which is grab boards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a yawner of a year for small-business growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42435]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a yawner of a year for small-business growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19524]]></link><description><![CDATA[No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The monarch drank that happy hour The sweetest, noblest draught of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The monarch drank that happy hour The sweetest, noblest draught of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the water is below the pickup tube, then it picks up the phase-separated layer of ethanol, water and gasoline, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33798]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the water is below the pickup tube, then it picks up the phase-separated layer of ethanol, water and gasoline, and the engine will run very poorly, if at all, on that mixture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18488]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34438]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  Therefore Adam could have stood if he wished, seeing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  Therefore Adam could have stood if he wished, seeing that he fell solely by his own will. But it was because his will was capable of being bent to one side or the other, and was not given the constancy to persevere, that he fell so easily. Yet his choice of good and evil was free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19646]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's (Convey) a guy that's dangerous on that side of the field. He and Eddie Lewis created a number of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30784]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's (Convey) a guy that's dangerous on that side of the field. He and Eddie Lewis created a number of opportunities on the left flanks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have in place a process through which we are carefully reviewing a range of options to increase the value ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have in place a process through which we are carefully reviewing a range of options to increase the value of our company, including those proposed by Mr. Icahn and his group. Investors should rest assured that this evaluation is being done in a prudent and deliberate manner with an eye toward creating sustainable value for all of our shareholders and as always we will keep our shareholders informed regarding our initiatives and direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66028]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48362]]></link><description><![CDATA[With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd: Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd.  His preaching much, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48083]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd: Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd.  His preaching much, but more his practice wrought;   (A living sermon of the truths he taught:)    For this by rules severe his life he squar'd:     That all might see the doctrines which they heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to film is that it's an illusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to film is that it's an illusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No good deed goes unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46428]]></link><description><![CDATA[No good deed goes unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2043]]></link><description><![CDATA[What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave.   - Lord Byron (George ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58788]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave.   - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think in my heart of hearts that had a big bearing on it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think in my heart of hearts that had a big bearing on it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54805]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called; Which some professing have erred concerning faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5836]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20194]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True love doesn't come to you, it has to be inside you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4057]]></link><description><![CDATA[True love doesn't come to you, it has to be inside you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's recovering a little bit abroad (today). But, the outlook is for more U.S. losses ... so we have space ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35001]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's recovering a little bit abroad (today). But, the outlook is for more U.S. losses ... so we have space to fall further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thine own purpose, thou hast sent The strife and the discouragement! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46159]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thine own purpose, thou hast sent The strife and the discouragement!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they want to have their wall, fine. What we want is to make sure that we let immigrants in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29353]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they want to have their wall, fine. What we want is to make sure that we let immigrants in legally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. -James F. Byrnes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. -James F. Byrnes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61186]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27219]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15670]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All feete tread not in one shoe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49100]]></link><description><![CDATA[All feete tread not in one shoe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59179]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. [Lat., Illud tamen in primis testandum est, nihil praecepta atque artes valere nisi adjuvante natura.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors Distress our fair ones--let them read the prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors Distress our fair ones--let them read the prayers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Concluding a short series on the Bible:   Christ is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Concluding a short series on the Bible:   Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15064</guid></item></channel></rss>