<?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[Splitting up the portfolio is more than an accounting measure. I've handled cases where the portfolios were really diverse. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Splitting up the portfolio is more than an accounting measure. I've handled cases where the portfolios were really diverse. If I hadn't stepped in, the wife would have been stuck with capital gains that she had no clue about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,  And pity 'tis 'tis true--a foolish figure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7192]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65299]]></link><description><![CDATA[My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just really excited about it, and I think it needs to be started in the early grades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37252]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just really excited about it, and I think it needs to be started in the early grades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15213]]></link><description><![CDATA[To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3501]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26151]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness,  Whose very languor is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20351]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness,  Whose very languor is a punishment   Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["How does the Water Come down at Lodore?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61307]]></link><description><![CDATA["How does the Water Come down at Lodore?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash--  Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash--  Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill;   All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  We have still much to learn as to the laws according to which the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  We have still much to learn as to the laws according to which the mind and body act on one another, and according to which one mind acts on another; but it is certain that a great part of this mutual action can be reduced to general laws, and that the more we know of such laws, the greater our power to benefit others will be. When, through the operation of such laws, surprising events take place, [we may] cry out, ... "Such is the will of God," instead of setting ourselves to inquire whether it is the will of God to give us power to bring about or prevent such results; then our conduct is not piety but sinful laziness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is singularly unequipped to beat these people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37557]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is singularly unequipped to beat these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27933]]></link><description><![CDATA[They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. - The Italians, 1964.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866   Think it not hard if you get not your will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866   Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8799]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing to pull his weight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Picking] an interim CEO is just one of many discussions, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29660]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Picking] an interim CEO is just one of many discussions,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For now, the corn house filled, the harvest home, Th' invited neighbors to the husking come;  A frolic scene, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18760]]></link><description><![CDATA[For now, the corn house filled, the harvest home, Th' invited neighbors to the husking come;  A frolic scene, where work and mirth and play   Unite their charms to cheer the hours away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will not affect the formation of the government and could even be a positive factor to end the political ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42616]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will not affect the formation of the government and could even be a positive factor to end the political volatility we are living through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22990]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame  Sits mocking in our plumes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame  Sits mocking in our plumes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19860]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44292]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62617]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not like I walked in expecting this, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39810]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not like I walked in expecting this,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get married you forget about kissing other women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2014]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get married you forget about kissing other women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59544]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,  Or any taint of vie whose strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20903]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,  Or any taint of vie whose strong corruption   Inhabits our frail blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3366]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3366</guid></item></channel></rss>