<?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[If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46582]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're hoping for is to come up with a generalized plan of how people want to see the town ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36879]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're hoping for is to come up with a generalized plan of how people want to see the town develop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that Gods bids us do good for evil: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60651]]></link><description><![CDATA[But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that Gods bids us do good for evil:  And thus I clothe my naked villainy   With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ,    And seems a saint, when most I play the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it around like marmelade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it around like marmelade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One today is worth two tomorrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59451]]></link><description><![CDATA[One today is worth two tomorrows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61549]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy. Although in the industrial world bottled water is often no healthier than tap water, it can cost up to 10,000 times more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something humorous but lingering--with either boiling oil or melted lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something humorous but lingering--with either boiling oil or melted lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2854]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[She has learned a lot from her political job.] Every morning I wake up an hour early and attend briefings. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40245]]></link><description><![CDATA[[She has learned a lot from her political job.] Every morning I wake up an hour early and attend briefings. You have to be really excited and energetic and able to pump people up, ... I'll dance and scream and do cheers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which offends the ear will not easily gainadmission to the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21320]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which offends the ear will not easily gainadmission to the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all trying to get ready for the playoffs. It takes 20 guys in here to do it every night. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37385]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all trying to get ready for the playoffs. It takes 20 guys in here to do it every night. When we have that commitment, we're a really good team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8649]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21684]]></link><description><![CDATA[When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our two networks are so dissimilar because they overlap in so few places that this is not really going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our two networks are so dissimilar because they overlap in so few places that this is not really going to affect any one service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55362]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has no religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53440]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has no religion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy,  And seemed that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy,  And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it. -All 's Well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55713]]></link><description><![CDATA['T were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53896]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat. 'We’re all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26181]]></link><description><![CDATA['But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat. 'We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.''How do you know I’m mad?' said Alice.'You must be, said the Cat. 'or you wouldn’t have come here.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When shall we find his equal? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50388]]></link><description><![CDATA[When shall we find his equal?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The relationship is the communication bridge between people. -Alfred Kadushin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The relationship is the communication bridge between people. -Alfred Kadushin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Son of God did not come from above to add an external form of worship to the several ways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6978]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Son of God did not come from above to add an external form of worship to the several ways of life that are in the world, and so to leave people to live as they did before, in such tempers and enjoyments as the fashion and the spirit of the world approve; but as He came down from Heaven altogether Divine and heavenly in His own nature, so it was to call mankind to a Divine and heavenly life; to the highest change of their own nature and temper; to be born again of the Holy Spirit; to walk in the wisdom and light and love of God, and to be like Him to the utmost of their power, to renounce all the most plausible ways of the world, whether of greatness, business, or pleasure; to a mortification of their most agreeable passions; and to live in such wisdom, purity, and holiness as might fit them to be glorious in the enjoyment of God to all eternity. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The number of different things that you can do with these mice is huge. One can say, 'OK, show me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31727]]></link><description><![CDATA[The number of different things that you can do with these mice is huge. One can say, 'OK, show me all the mice that are anemic,' ... and you immediately come up with a list of genes, many of which you never would have thought of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32015]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parking, traffic, those are issues tied to urban life. It's not necessarily a bad thing, ... I don't know how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parking, traffic, those are issues tied to urban life. It's not necessarily a bad thing, ... I don't know how a merchant can think there's too much traffic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14907]]></link><description><![CDATA[My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12038]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56181]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never exaggerate. I just remember big. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never exaggerate. I just remember big.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9260]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9548]]></link><description><![CDATA[If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think you can be a success at anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25564]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think you can be a success at anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until one has loved an animal a part of one\'s soul remains unawakened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until one has loved an animal a part of one\'s soul remains unawakened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66687</guid></item></channel></rss>