<?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[Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57685]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56211]]></link><description><![CDATA[One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.   - William Hazlitt,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. [Lat., Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57858]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. [Lat., Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ad mentiendem rei publicae causae.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can guard him. He's strong with a low center of gravity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40355]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can guard him. He's strong with a low center of gravity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66568]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one;  Yet the light of the bright world dies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one;  Yet the light of the bright world dies   With the dying sun.    The mind has a thousand eyes,     And the heart but one:      Yet the light of a whole life dies       When love is done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose one could construct Madame Clarkson's very active involvement in these last few days and her coming to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38455]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose one could construct Madame Clarkson's very active involvement in these last few days and her coming to the ceremony as wanting to support the office and the institution in the face of some controversy that's been around Madame Jean, and a desire to be visible in support of her,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might this noble Lord do of more worship and joy to me than to show me (that am so simple) this marvelous homeliness [i.e., naturalness and simplicity]? Thus it fareth with our Lord Jesus and with us. For truly it is the most joy that may be that He that is highest and mightiest, noblest and worthiest, is lowest and meekest, homeliest and most courteous: and truly this marvelous joy shall be shewn us all when we see Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A worthless woman! mere cold clay As all false things are! but so fair,  She takes the breath of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61936]]></link><description><![CDATA[A worthless woman! mere cold clay As all false things are! but so fair,  She takes the breath of men away   Who gaze upon her unaware:    I would not play her larcenous tricks     To have her looks!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been no more than a medium, as it were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been no more than a medium, as it were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Older people are seen basically as doddery but dear, and young people perhaps as clever but callous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Older people are seen basically as doddery but dear, and young people perhaps as clever but callous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A merry monarch, scandalous and poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54530]]></link><description><![CDATA[A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morale is faith in the man at the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morale is faith in the man at the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12123]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Defense and government networks are hardening their security, but for regular users, the best strategy against high-tech crime can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38707]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Defense and government networks are hardening their security, but for regular users, the best strategy against high-tech crime can be simple.] Our best defenses against these kind of attacks are often of a low tech variety -- that is, keep paper records of your transactions, ... Even though much of what we have exists only as a series of ones and zeroes somewhere in the information sphere, we do get paper copies and we should hang on to those. The movie 'The Net,' I think, makes a very intriguing point, about this very computer literate protagonist who has few human connections, and this is precisely the reason she's vulnerable to the kind of attack she suffers. It seems to me that if we keep that in mind we'll be well served.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of ways to check her story out and that's what we have been telling people. She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36407]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of ways to check her story out and that's what we have been telling people. She didn't do anything wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar, Making the hard way sweet and delectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51504]]></link><description><![CDATA[And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar, Making the hard way sweet and delectable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peanuts' made us realize that our emotions, frustrations, hopes and dreams are common to us all, ... And as we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peanuts' made us realize that our emotions, frustrations, hopes and dreams are common to us all, ... And as we pay tribute today to this good and humble man, let us remember that what made Sparky unique was his honesty, the strength of his character and the humor which he brought to his work and to his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dress up in my costume, and I do the laundry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dress up in my costume, and I do the laundry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs;  Live by thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs;  Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24083]]></link><description><![CDATA[All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is actually patronized by the social order as a means of stabilizing and perpetuating the existing system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53680]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is actually patronized by the social order as a means of stabilizing and perpetuating the existing system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that well his warke beginneth The rather a good ende he winneth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62111]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that well his warke beginneth The rather a good ende he winneth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4600]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We?re still trying to find ourselves on the mound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32720]]></link><description><![CDATA[We?re still trying to find ourselves on the mound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50686]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57067]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're still in a very headline-driven market and the geopolitical concerns are going to continue to outweigh the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're still in a very headline-driven market and the geopolitical concerns are going to continue to outweigh the fundamentals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is moderation even in excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42885]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is moderation even in excess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly, it's a blow to the Gore camp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly, it's a blow to the Gore camp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;  Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19608]]></link><description><![CDATA[At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;  Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro'   To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 I love my God, but with no love of mine  For I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 I love my God, but with no love of mine  For I have none to give; I love Thee, Lord, but all that love is Thine,  For by Thy life I live. I am as nothing, and rejoice to be Emptied and lost and swallowed up in Thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're an incredible live band. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38219]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're an incredible live band.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66216]]></link><description><![CDATA[I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't row a boat in two directions at the same time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4414]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't row a boat in two directions at the same time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We used to say that Memorial Day started the season. Now, Presidents' Day is considered the start of the season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33864]]></link><description><![CDATA[We used to say that Memorial Day started the season. Now, Presidents' Day is considered the start of the season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11234]]></link><description><![CDATA[One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul is healed by being with children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul is healed by being with children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatreds are the cinders of affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatreds are the cinders of affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12965]]></link><description><![CDATA[If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18361]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18361</guid></item></channel></rss>