<?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[The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45618]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel we are all islands - in a common sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You take a triple crown guy off your team, you're going to feel the effects. Conversely, I think we'll be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32145]]></link><description><![CDATA[You take a triple crown guy off your team, you're going to feel the effects. Conversely, I think we'll be stronger throughout the lineup this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to take advantage of our mismatches. We felt Darnell had not been getting the ball enough lately. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35465]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to take advantage of our mismatches. We felt Darnell had not been getting the ball enough lately.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62748]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growth is likely to be lower in '98 than it was in '97. So, to re-balance monetary policy, you're going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growth is likely to be lower in '98 than it was in '97. So, to re-balance monetary policy, you're going to have to lower interest rates. The question is by how much? At this point in time, probably a decrease of half a percentage point to three-quarters of a percentage point would make sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53981]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46802]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry withme, for every man is amirror. We see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry withme, for every man is amirror. We see only ourselves reflected inthose around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of ourown. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within usall. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world willchange.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an ill dog that deserves not a crust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51040]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an ill dog that deserves not a crust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15072]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is certain when it comes to the ways of women, of that I'm sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is certain when it comes to the ways of women, of that I'm sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a great night, a great Lanthorne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49997]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a great night, a great Lanthorne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got a strong urge to fly. But I got nowhere to fly to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15478]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got a strong urge to fly. But I got nowhere to fly to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go, go, good countrymen, and for this fault Assemble all the poor men of your sort;  Draw them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go, go, good countrymen, and for this fault Assemble all the poor men of your sort;  Draw them to the Tiber banks, and weep your tears   Into the channel, till the lowest stream    Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51888]]></link><description><![CDATA[A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never realize how much that meant when we had three or four guys on the wing. We all kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42259]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never realize how much that meant when we had three or four guys on the wing. We all kind of split minutes up and we were still happy. We really miss those guys a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like the next Harry Potter book. You'll have to wait for it and be grateful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like the next Harry Potter book. You'll have to wait for it and be grateful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way they're so proper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way they're so proper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23508]]></link><description><![CDATA[My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I complain, have been stolen by my neighbor. This the judge desires to have proved to him; but you, with swelling words and extravagant gestures, dilate on the Battle of Cannae, the Mithridatic war, and the perjuries of the insensate Carthaginians, the Syllae, the Marii, and the Mucii. It is time, Postumus, to say something about my three goats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just know this is the best job I've ever had because I have had so many other jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33691]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just know this is the best job I've ever had because I have had so many other jobs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a better use of our resources to inform consumers what to do about fish than spending money and time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32907]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a better use of our resources to inform consumers what to do about fish than spending money and time testing more fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55130]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American is the crucible of God. It is the melting pot where all the races are fusing and reforming . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45832]]></link><description><![CDATA[American is the crucible of God. It is the melting pot where all the races are fusing and reforming . . . these are the fires of God you've come to. . . . Into the crucible with you all. God is making the American.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25311]]></link><description><![CDATA[In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25311</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[To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54120]]></link><description><![CDATA[To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know the media end of things and not much about the business end. Leslie knows the business end but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37802]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know the media end of things and not much about the business end. Leslie knows the business end but not much about the media.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe management continues to explore strategic alternatives, including potential acquisitions and joint venture opportunities, and as a result, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37300]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe management continues to explore strategic alternatives, including potential acquisitions and joint venture opportunities, and as a result, we expect WMS to participate in the consolidation of the equipment industry over the next 12 months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability of speech in time and season is an especial gift of God, and that eminently with respect unto the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability of speech in time and season is an especial gift of God, and that eminently with respect unto the spiritual things of the Gospel; but a profluency of speech, venting itself on all occasions and on no occasions, making men open their mouths wide when indeed they should shut them and open their ears, and to pour out all that they know and ... what they do not know, making them angry if they are not heard and impatient if they are contradicted, is an unconquerable fortification against all true spiritual wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17351</guid></item></channel></rss>