<?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[I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17938]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54644]]></link><description><![CDATA[In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the question minus the answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the question minus the answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5090]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou who hast The fatal gist of beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou who hast The fatal gist of beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46672]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to when you go to someone's house for dinner. If there is a flower arrangement that is fake, it makes me think differently of that person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.  Few lend (but fools)   Their working tools.   - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.  Few lend (but fools)   Their working tools.   - Thomas Tusser,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a much-threatened VVIP. We are fully geared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41369]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a much-threatened VVIP. We are fully geared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  Let a clergyman but intend to please ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  Let a clergyman but intend to please God in all his actions, as the happiest and best thing in the world, and then he will know that there is nothing noble in a clergyman but a burning zeal for the salvation of souls; nor anything poorer in his profession [than] idleness and a worldly spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48332]]></link><description><![CDATA[I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All his reverend wit Lies in his wardrobe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58574]]></link><description><![CDATA[All his reverend wit Lies in his wardrobe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis  Que les imitateurs.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a kisse? Why this, as some approve: The sure sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23834]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a kisse? Why this, as some approve: The sure sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2291]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very much a sensitivity model; you don't know what your business looks like a month out. If it rains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32472]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very much a sensitivity model; you don't know what your business looks like a month out. If it rains tomorrow, or it rains for the next week, then you're missing your entire month or quarter. It's a thin business as far as margins are concerned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a matter of finding the right chair. Will it have its own presence? Will it stand on its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34388]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a matter of finding the right chair. Will it have its own presence? Will it stand on its own? Condition is important, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  As long as I live, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  As long as I live, I will never appeal for money for the mission of God in this world. This is a degradation of God and of ourselves, which has pauperized us in every way over the centuries. God has no need, and if the mission is God's, then we do not ask for help to give God a boost; therefore we do not appeal for funds. We allow people to take a share in God's work, and this is a very different thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemplation makes a rare turkey cock of him. How he jets under his advanced plumes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemplation makes a rare turkey cock of him. How he jets under his advanced plumes!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26441]]></link><description><![CDATA[She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The palest ink is better than the best memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26946]]></link><description><![CDATA[The palest ink is better than the best memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can read this, thank a teacher. -Anonymous teacher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13541]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can read this, thank a teacher. -Anonymous teacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16671]]></link><description><![CDATA[England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.   - Mrs. Lydia Maria Child,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44494]]></link><description><![CDATA[People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think it is time for Ms. Love to take full financial responsibility for her assault on Ms. King, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35857]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think it is time for Ms. Love to take full financial responsibility for her assault on Ms. King,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The interpretation of dreams is a great art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The interpretation of dreams is a great art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a long history of conflict between us. The Preventive Security always tries to demean our members. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28329]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a long history of conflict between us. The Preventive Security always tries to demean our members.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42069]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone knows programming isn't a core competency at Microsoft. Marketing is the only core competency here. By next year, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone knows programming isn't a core competency at Microsoft. Marketing is the only core competency here. By next year, the marketers just might have this whole place to themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One eare it heard, at the other out it went. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18979]]></link><description><![CDATA[One eare it heard, at the other out it went.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18979</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[My own recipe for world peace is a little bit of land for everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23982]]></link><description><![CDATA[My own recipe for world peace is a little bit of land for everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chinese authorities indicated that they want to ratify the covenant as early as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41094]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chinese authorities indicated that they want to ratify the covenant as early as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59727]]></link><description><![CDATA[I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59727</guid></item></channel></rss>