<?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[Although Constellation's been a good performer every year, it hasn't been off the charts. There haven't been scary triple-digit returns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although Constellation's been a good performer every year, it hasn't been off the charts. There haven't been scary triple-digit returns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2127]]></link><description><![CDATA[You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31162]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it was Gus, it was hard to say no.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old man in love is like a flower in winter ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10926]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old man in love is like a flower in winter]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824, there set in a great flood upon that town--the tide rose to an incredible height: the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be scared of situations you get into that are bigger than you can possibly imagine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be scared of situations you get into that are bigger than you can possibly imagine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13688]]></link><description><![CDATA[An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nation is prosperpus on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nation is prosperpus on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46463]]></link><description><![CDATA[By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11283]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money isn't everything… but it ranks right up there with oxygen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money isn't everything… but it ranks right up there with oxygen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endure the present, and watch for better things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endure the present, and watch for better things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have look'd on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32006]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given,  Thy stars have lit the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given,  Thy stars have lit the welkin dome;   And all thy hues were born in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rejection as unhistorical of all passages which narrate miracles is sensible if we start by knowing that the miraculous... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rejection as unhistorical of all passages which narrate miracles is sensible if we start by knowing that the miraculous... never occurs. Now, I do not want here to discuss whether the miraculous is possible: I only want to point out that this is a purely philosophical question. Scholars, as scholars, speak on it with no more authority than anyone else. The canon, "If miraculous, unhistorical", is one they bring to their study of the texts, not one they have learned from it. If one is speaking of authority, the united authority of all the Biblical critics in the world counts for nothing. On this they speak simply as men -- men obviously influenced by, and perhaps insufficiently critical of, the spirit of the age they grew up in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste is of the Devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste is of the Devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose--easily trimmed off when once plucked. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose--easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters.   - Ik Marvel (pseudonym of Donald G. Mitchell),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12786]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coach is only as good as his players are, I think. They had a goal and they really have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41775]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coach is only as good as his players are, I think. They had a goal and they really have stuck with it. They deserve to be here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's wildly impractical to do so in any real sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32066]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's wildly impractical to do so in any real sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither do men put new wine into old bottles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither do men put new wine into old bottles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these help instead of hinder, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these help instead of hinder, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comin' through the rye, poor body, Comin' through the rye,  She draigl't a' her petticoatie,   Comin' through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comin' through the rye, poor body, Comin' through the rye,  She draigl't a' her petticoatie,   Comin' through the rye    . . . .     Gin a body meet a body      Comin' through the rye,       Gin a body kiss a body        Need a body cry?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19007]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cellsthey occupied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cellsthey occupied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine host of the Garter. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine host of the Garter. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Donald Abrams, MD, also commented on the biased federal approach to research. In the late '90s Abrams conducted a federally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33823]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Donald Abrams, MD, also commented on the biased federal approach to research. In the late '90s Abrams conducted a federally funded study to determine the safety of smoked marijuana in AIDS patients taking protease inhibitors.] At that time we could not use the federal government's marijuana to show that it might be beneficial because NIDA has a mandate from Congress that they could only supply marijuana for research to show that it might be dangerous, ... Subsequently NIDA has changed their mechanism so we can look for benefit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carlos felt really strong at the foot of the decisive climb, so we put Calvente and Piil up front to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carlos felt really strong at the foot of the decisive climb, so we put Calvente and Piil up front to set the pace. With about six kilometers to go Carlos hit a bad patch and instead of risking a total meltdown, he made the sensible choice to ride at his own pace and he did actually manage to limit his time loss quite well. The other day Carlos was a bit better than Mancebo and today it was the other way round. The time differences are still very small. The way it looks right now Heras and Menchov are the strongest. But there's almost two full weeks left and a lot can happen in that time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth /the power to love /although I have put it last, is the rarest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14006]]></link><description><![CDATA[With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14006</guid></item></channel></rss>