<?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[Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not have unlimited capital. If we cannot make the new library sustainable for future generations we are providing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38469]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not have unlimited capital. If we cannot make the new library sustainable for future generations we are providing a maintenance timebomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our children's children will hear a good story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our children's children will hear a good story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody said it wasn't going to snow, and I kept telling everybody, 'Hey, I think it's going to snow'. Winter's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody said it wasn't going to snow, and I kept telling everybody, 'Hey, I think it's going to snow'. Winter's not over yet. Everybody's like, 'Oh! Take my studded tires off!' And I'm like, 'I wouldn't take studded tires off quite yet,' and here it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark did a good job managing the game and getting the ball where it needed to be. This type of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark did a good job managing the game and getting the ball where it needed to be. This type of performance is what he can give us and what we need each and every night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy letter sent to prove me, Inflicts no sense of wrong;  No longer wilt thou love me,--   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy letter sent to prove me, Inflicts no sense of wrong;  No longer wilt thou love me,--   Thy letter, though is long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended--and not to take a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended--and not to take a kint when a hint isn't intended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what love can do, that does love attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51468]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what love can do, that does love attempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3243]]></link><description><![CDATA[For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often in the past, Tony Blair has gone to Washington and instead of pressing the British case or British ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often in the past, Tony Blair has gone to Washington and instead of pressing the British case or British arguments, he has effectively done what the president asked him to do and forgotten that he should be arguing Britain's corner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Albert Einstein I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. W. Alton Jones -Robert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Albert Einstein I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. W. Alton Jones -Robert Frost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We begin by being dupe, and end by being rogue. [Fr., On commence par etre dupe,  On finit par ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We begin by being dupe, and end by being rogue. [Fr., On commence par etre dupe,  On finit par etre fripon.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63832]]></link><description><![CDATA[As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patch grief with proverbs. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patch grief with proverbs. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not disturb the sleeping dog. [It., Non stuzzicare il can che dorme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not disturb the sleeping dog. [It., Non stuzzicare il can che dorme.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn. [Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43045]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn. [Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a lovers quarrel with the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64721]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a lovers quarrel with the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6407]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Royko said it was the worst thing anybody could ever do to him, ... Here he had been gratuitously nasty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Royko said it was the worst thing anybody could ever do to him, ... Here he had been gratuitously nasty, and the guy calls up and makes a joke about it. He said it was totally disarming. It was also totally brilliant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60899]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blame is for God and small children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blame is for God and small children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a step in the right direction, but I don't accept moral victories or anything like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a step in the right direction, but I don't accept moral victories or anything like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63588]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of our stuff is there. We were planning to sell this house as quick as we can and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of our stuff is there. We were planning to sell this house as quick as we can and move there, and now we understand, the best reports we're getting that our house there is underwater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it is going to be a great game, you have two good programs going against each other. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41835]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it is going to be a great game, you have two good programs going against each other. It is going to be a good test for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men argue cases, fools decide them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell;  All the other sounds we hear,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell;  All the other sounds we hear,   Flatter, and but cheat our ear.    This doth put us still in mind     That our flesh must be resigned,      And, a general silence made,       The world be muffled in a shade.        [Orpheus' lute, as poets tell,         Was but moral of this bell,          And the captive soul was she,           Which they called Eurydice,            Rescued by our holy groan,             A loud echo to this tone.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19343]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foul-spoken coward, that thunder'st with thy tongue, And with thy weapon nothing dar'st perform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foul-spoken coward, that thunder'st with thy tongue, And with thy weapon nothing dar'st perform.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our studies of HIV patients with painful feet -peripheral neuropathy- animal studies have already demonstrated that marijuana, where opioids ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33821]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our studies of HIV patients with painful feet -peripheral neuropathy- animal studies have already demonstrated that marijuana, where opioids don't work, works for nerve pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-Shop appears, As the red waves of wretchedness swell,  How it burns on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-Shop appears, As the red waves of wretchedness swell,  How it burns on the edge of tempestuous years   The horrible Light-House of Hell!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just keeping things simple. Philly's a great team, and I thought we did a good job of getting behind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32044]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just keeping things simple. Philly's a great team, and I thought we did a good job of getting behind their 'D' and making things happen and coming through the neutral zone with speed. After the first period I think we were a little slow, but we got going as the game went on. We blocked shots and killed penalties, and to win games you have to do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is strength without a double share of wisdom? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57957]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is strength without a double share of wisdom?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to finish when I fold my hand and go up to the big poker game in the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28604]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to finish when I fold my hand and go up to the big poker game in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was hoping they would respond, unsolicited, in some way, shape or form and that's disappointing. When you sit in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was hoping they would respond, unsolicited, in some way, shape or form and that's disappointing. When you sit in a meeting and hear them say what they're going to do and the results are insignificant and you don't hear anything about how are things going or can we do anything differently, it's just very disappointing. They're simply hoping we go away. that's the feeling I get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37459</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[A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3144]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22204]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15496</guid></item></channel></rss>