<?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[Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They love this spot. It's a high point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37850]]></link><description><![CDATA[They love this spot. It's a high point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55795]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd have a hard time finding a major publishing company that has not begun to reduce its page size. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33013]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd have a hard time finding a major publishing company that has not begun to reduce its page size.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What most we wish, with ease we fancy near. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61795]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51517]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're back to 10 percent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33481]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're back to 10 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the final product is going to be, I can't tell you. I can tell you he's hitting the ball ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the final product is going to be, I can't tell you. I can tell you he's hitting the ball well. His career with us has been pretty good. His bat is going to take him wherever he wants to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62537]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like not lady-slippers, Not yet the sweet-pea blossoms,  Not yet the flaky roses,   Red or white ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25077]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like not lady-slippers, Not yet the sweet-pea blossoms,  Not yet the flaky roses,   Red or white as snow;    I like the chaliced lilies,     The heavy Eastern lilies,      The gorgeous tiger-lilies,       That in our garden grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In addition to the costs of the software itself, organizations will encounter other up-front costs, including those resulting from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29662]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition to the costs of the software itself, organizations will encounter other up-front costs, including those resulting from the need for new hardware, administrator and end-user training, configuration and deployment of the new operating system, compatibility-testing, and possible re-engineering of application software,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[October's child is born for woe, And life's vicissitudes must know;  But lay on Opal on her breast,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23254]]></link><description><![CDATA[October's child is born for woe, And life's vicissitudes must know;  But lay on Opal on her breast,   And hope will lull those woes to rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weren't the last drop in the well, As I gasp'd upon the brink,  Ere my fainting spirit fell,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weren't the last drop in the well, As I gasp'd upon the brink,  Ere my fainting spirit fell,   'Tis to thee that I would drink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5988]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16962]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itself something to rejoice at greatly. But I also say that I can see more in the knowledge that America is going to win a right to be at the conference table when the terms of peace are discussed. . . . It would have been a tragedy for mankind if America had not been there, and there with all her influence and power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have become the tools of their tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have become the tools of their tools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53755]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This would be one time to take it to a commercial car wash. That way, nobody has to handle it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40429]]></link><description><![CDATA[This would be one time to take it to a commercial car wash. That way, nobody has to handle it and the (dirty water) drains into the sanitary sewer system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have always held students accountable to all state requirements. We believed this would be a consistent message to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39777]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have always held students accountable to all state requirements. We believed this would be a consistent message to the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never think of the future--it comes soon enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never think of the future--it comes soon enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundation of justice is good faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23600]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundation of justice is good faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you love me because I'm beautiful or am I beautiful because you love me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you love me because I'm beautiful or am I beautiful because you love me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1096]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50461]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29976]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26974]]></link><description><![CDATA[But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I consider how my light is spent  Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8154]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I consider how my light is spent  Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,  And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present  My true account, lest He returning chide,  "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need  Either man's work, or His own gifts. Who best  Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best. His state Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed,  And post o'er land and ocean without rest;  They also serve who only stand and wait.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14068]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could enter,--ask the rhetorician Sabinaeus to bathe himself in it. He would freeze the warm baths of Nero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people, especially officials, don't have the courage to speak up against corruption. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people, especially officials, don't have the courage to speak up against corruption.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our aim was always to reach a consensus to ensure a victory in the referendum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our aim was always to reach a consensus to ensure a victory in the referendum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I marched the lobby, twirled my stick, . . . .  The girls all cried, "He's quite the kick." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16421]]></link><description><![CDATA[I marched the lobby, twirled my stick, . . . .  The girls all cried, "He's quite the kick."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15613]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13064]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our myriad-minded Shakespeare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our myriad-minded Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As any policeman today will tell you, it's not the idea of getting the first shot off, it's hitting your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37076]]></link><description><![CDATA[As any policeman today will tell you, it's not the idea of getting the first shot off, it's hitting your target. Often the first guy that shoots misses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! -King Henry V. Prologue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55944]]></link><description><![CDATA[O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! -King Henry V. Prologue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or very foolish imagine otherwise]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11404]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11404</guid></item></channel></rss>