<?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[Pi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FORTY DAYS is a social, spiritual and learning experiment in which people experience the intensity of monastic life. The purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32900]]></link><description><![CDATA[FORTY DAYS is a social, spiritual and learning experiment in which people experience the intensity of monastic life. The purpose is not religious conversion per se, but it is to expose people to the reality of unplugging from modern life completely and creating the opportunity to explore their beliefs in a contemplative environment. The tone of the series will be thoughtful and respectful to the brothers and sisters who have made their monastery home to our production team and the participants in the series.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25861]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First come, first served. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13175]]></link><description><![CDATA[First come, first served.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When taken To be well shaken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26687]]></link><description><![CDATA[When taken To be well shaken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best is the cheapest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best is the cheapest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All war represents a failure of diplomacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12321]]></link><description><![CDATA[All war represents a failure of diplomacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54104]]></link><description><![CDATA[In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1686]]></link><description><![CDATA[If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5361]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23070]]></link><description><![CDATA[A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classes and masses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classes and masses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be so fast that no one can hit me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36391]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be so fast that no one can hit me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are at enmity with yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44235]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are at enmity with yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take what you can use and let the rest go by ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take what you can use and let the rest go by]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  ... for one good never clashes with another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  ... for one good never clashes with another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice in Britain today, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice in Britain today,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Global Services division goes from strength to strength ... providing BT with diversification away from pure telecoms services that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Global Services division goes from strength to strength ... providing BT with diversification away from pure telecoms services that remain under intense pricing pressure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll be with us when training camp opens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32640]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll be with us when training camp opens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were computer programmer, I do black box and white box testing before the applications launched ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30136]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were computer programmer, I do black box and white box testing before the applications launched]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few people I think fully comprehend the seriousness of the problem that the South and Southeast could be facing in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few people I think fully comprehend the seriousness of the problem that the South and Southeast could be facing in the next several weeks - it's an experience that few Americans have ever experienced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no small pleasure in sweet water. [Lat., Est in aqua dulci non invidiosa voluptas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61298]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no small pleasure in sweet water. [Lat., Est in aqua dulci non invidiosa voluptas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52732]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our liberality should not exceed our ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our liberality should not exceed our ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leave because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leave because we're in transition from concern about oil to concerns about natural gas and how that will affect consumer spending as we head into winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2438]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refuse to enter a wet T-Shirt Contest until my breasts look more like breasts, and less like something I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54690]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refuse to enter a wet T-Shirt Contest until my breasts look more like breasts, and less like something I should tuck into my pants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In indolent vacuity of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59213]]></link><description><![CDATA[In indolent vacuity of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33063]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the mostintelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21228]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the mostintelligent, but the one most responsive to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're in Washington and voting, you don't have the one-on-one interaction with your constituents that you do when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38741]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're in Washington and voting, you don't have the one-on-one interaction with your constituents that you do when you are in the district working out of the district office. You can do phone calls and letters and things like that (in Washington), but you can do one-on-one things in the district.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is better than revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is better than revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her attitude toward (Ngai) was of a very caring and patient surrogate mother dealing with a slightly retarded child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her attitude toward (Ngai) was of a very caring and patient surrogate mother dealing with a slightly retarded child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52522]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.   - Francis Bacon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6161]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57036]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome dutyinto an interesting opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome dutyinto an interesting opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do we make it through this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33210]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do we make it through this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10885</guid></item></channel></rss>