<?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[Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28886]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where upper level students were brought into E.J. Thomas for a performance. What the Children's Concert Society did was share the cost with us, so although we were just doing excerpts, we could do it in a full production sense with orchestra and costumes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dogs learn more than 40 commands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36425]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dogs learn more than 40 commands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We work in lower Manhattan. This is New York. We're not afraid of attacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We work in lower Manhattan. This is New York. We're not afraid of attacks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And, because we fail ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And, because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how our failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is forgiven is usually well remembered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53272]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is forgiven is usually well remembered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sell not virtue to purchase wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63179]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25152]]></link><description><![CDATA[No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too technical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for. [Lat., Levia perpessi sumus  Si flenda ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58206]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for. [Lat., Levia perpessi sumus  Si flenda patimur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1151]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They need to be permanent employees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40089]]></link><description><![CDATA[They need to be permanent employees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to look closely at how to fairly distribute the burden in Juneau. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to look closely at how to fairly distribute the burden in Juneau.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13440</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[Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose--easily trimmed off when once plucked. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose--easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters.   - Ik Marvel (pseudonym of Donald G. Mitchell),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who have money and people who are rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21191]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who have money and people who are rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest: the sweet sauce of labor ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest: the sweet sauce of labor]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752  Consider that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752  Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures;  And, therefore, I, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19133]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures;  And, therefore, I, that was an actress here,   Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To perpetuate the clerical role of answer man, the layman when inside the church building must act as if he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6356]]></link><description><![CDATA[To perpetuate the clerical role of answer man, the layman when inside the church building must act as if he has only half a brain, while outside, in the world, he is expected to be an ambassador for Christ, a lay transmitter of faith. Outside, he is to be informed and vocal; inside, he must appear ignorant and mute as a sheep. Christians have within them many questions -- questions that are at once elementary and profound, questions that would ripple the water were they raised. However, because a Christian is supposed to have "answers", life's important questions are not discussed outside the church building; and, because the pastor is the educated, spiritual authority, they are not discussed inside either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year,  A handsome house to lodge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year,  A handsome house to lodge a friend,   A river at my garden's end,    A terrace walk, and half a rood     Of land, set out to plant a wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a mistake every man should make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a mistake every man should make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY   Invisible in His own nature [God] became visible in ours. Beyond our grasp, He chose to come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6759]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY   Invisible in His own nature [God] became visible in ours. Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42738]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12351]]></link><description><![CDATA[In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bob's devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bob's devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we do it was a special gift to his fellow directors,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that Time Inc. found itself in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34940]]></link><description><![CDATA[will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that Time Inc. found itself in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the nobler growth our realms supply And souls are ripened in our northern sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the nobler growth our realms supply And souls are ripened in our northern sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. - David HockneyrnListening is a positive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. - David HockneyrnListening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The race could save one-half its wasted labor Would each reform himself and spare his neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The race could save one-half its wasted labor Would each reform himself and spare his neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a two-second call. There was no extended conversation. I don't understand the need to tell an untruth when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35631]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a two-second call. There was no extended conversation. I don't understand the need to tell an untruth when you have already lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65452]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who lives only by hope will die with despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who lives only by hope will die with despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nature of that role is that you are going to get the snot beat out of you. Drew gets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nature of that role is that you are going to get the snot beat out of you. Drew gets a lot of attention, but Greg has been every bit as important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51299]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've said it all season and it's getting old. When Joe's not in there, we have to have somebody step ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38278]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've said it all season and it's getting old. When Joe's not in there, we have to have somebody step up for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56930]]></link><description><![CDATA[No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61530]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65696</guid></item></channel></rss>