<?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[Diamonds never leave you... men do! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diamonds never leave you... men do!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41592]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19610]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was completely unfair and I was happy to see the dean saw it our way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34893]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was completely unfair and I was happy to see the dean saw it our way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20886]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53475]]></link><description><![CDATA[His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And think of the appeal Christ made to men and women! He had many, but His favourite was to their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7449]]></link><description><![CDATA[And think of the appeal Christ made to men and women! He had many, but His favourite was to their chivalry and valour. Often He underlines the difficulties of discipleship, warns us what it will cost, that it means risk and loss and sacrifice, and pulling hard against fierce currents; and then He turns and looks at us, with that honouring trust of His in us that sets the blood tingling and makes the cheeks flush with pride. That, He says quietly, is why I am so sure that you will come: you are too big to keep out of it! And, indeed, in His own day, it was only daring and adventurous spirits who would risk declaring for Him, as it is only daring and adventurous spirits still who have the pluck to try to follow so original and unpopular a Master in the real living-out of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17460]]></link><description><![CDATA[My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can call spirits from the vasty deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2789]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can call spirits from the vasty deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year was huge. It's probably the biggest fundraiser we've ever done for the Family Life Center. We raised about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year was huge. It's probably the biggest fundraiser we've ever done for the Family Life Center. We raised about $4,000.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chickenpox is not necessarily a benign disease or a childhood rite of passage. We don't recommend parents expose their children. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chickenpox is not necessarily a benign disease or a childhood rite of passage. We don't recommend parents expose their children. The vaccine is best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A theory must be tempered with reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53063]]></link><description><![CDATA[A theory must be tempered with reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24771]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.   - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11201]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe, O never, never turn away their ear!  Forlorn, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48039]]></link><description><![CDATA[And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe, O never, never turn away their ear!  Forlorn, in this bleak wilderness below,   Ah! what were man, should Heaven refuse to hear!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It humiliates millions and millions of ordinary peace-loving Muslims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28568]]></link><description><![CDATA[It humiliates millions and millions of ordinary peace-loving Muslims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a way-if you're committed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21329]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a way-if you're committed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The role of the post office [currently] is as trusted third party with an unparalleled workforce and physical locations, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The role of the post office [currently] is as trusted third party with an unparalleled workforce and physical locations, ... Who else can claim so many countertops and employees, and the trust of virtually every merchant in the country with their money, with their bills, with everything?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! worse every day! this colony grows backward like the tail of a calf. [Lat., Heu quotidie pejus! haec colonia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! worse every day! this colony grows backward like the tail of a calf. [Lat., Heu quotidie pejus! haec colonia retroversus crescit tanquam coda vituli.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare. People are telling us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare. People are telling us they can't afford to get the care they need, because Medicare supplemental policies are too expensive, medications are too expensive, and they are having trouble with special needs if they are in HMOs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10104]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45973]]></link><description><![CDATA[One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't take a photograph, you make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3277]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't take a photograph, you make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And though it be a two-foot trout, 'Tis with a single hair pulled out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18577]]></link><description><![CDATA[And though it be a two-foot trout, 'Tis with a single hair pulled out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the sheriff to come in and enforce the law, enforce speeds, it has to be legally posted, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37732]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the sheriff to come in and enforce the law, enforce speeds, it has to be legally posted, and the rules have to be met.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would find it bizarre to speak of tolerating blonds. For whatever reason, hair color has not been a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would find it bizarre to speak of tolerating blonds. For whatever reason, hair color has not been a basis of tribal identity or group politics in our culture; the concept of tolerance is never invoked in this context because there is too obviously nothing to tolerate. In a rational culture, the same would be true of race, ethnicity, and the like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bibles laid open, millions of surprises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14787]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never know where the limit will be. These are sacred places and really shouldn't be opened to this kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34601]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never know where the limit will be. These are sacred places and really shouldn't be opened to this kind of activity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tiger was cracking jokes and relating some locker room stories. He also imitated a few players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tiger was cracking jokes and relating some locker room stories. He also imitated a few players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31837]]></link><description><![CDATA[I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The restrictions are a big factor. We work with marketing researchers and suppliers who are in tune with these things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The restrictions are a big factor. We work with marketing researchers and suppliers who are in tune with these things to make sure we have an adequate supply of those goods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the documents he inadvertently left behind was a draft of a document proclaiming himself as president once again, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35866]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the documents he inadvertently left behind was a draft of a document proclaiming himself as president once again,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34371</guid></item></channel></rss>