<?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[It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63435]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy and the NettlesA boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy and the NettlesA boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Although it hurts me very much, I only touched it gently. That was just why it stung you, said his Mother. The next time you touch a Nettle, grasp it boldly, and it will be soft as silk to your hand, and not in the least hurt you. Whatever you do, do with all your might.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15691]]></link><description><![CDATA[One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of man is a winter way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49885]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of man is a winter way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a treasured gift, and every time I talk with you I feel as if I'm getting richer and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a treasured gift, and every time I talk with you I feel as if I'm getting richer and richer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money often costs too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money often costs too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11108]]></link><description><![CDATA[FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally unappealing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58168]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8688]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2458]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing has become America's tragic theater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing has become America's tragic theater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's a skirmish of wit between them. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55416]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's a skirmish of wit between them. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64879]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conciseness is the sister of talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conciseness is the sister of talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11472]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24292]]></link><description><![CDATA[An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're losing a lot of talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42382]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're losing a lot of talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about. Copyright doesn't protect ideas, and copyright doesn't protect facts. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about. Copyright doesn't protect ideas, and copyright doesn't protect facts. . . . A number of people can write novels based on the same idea and still have freedom of expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man often preaches his beliefs precisely when he has lost them and is looking everywhere for them, and, on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53505]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man often preaches his beliefs precisely when he has lost them and is looking everywhere for them, and, on such occasions, his preaching is by no means at its worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19511]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6425]]></link><description><![CDATA[A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.  ... Evelyn Underhill November 30, 1996 Andrew the Apostle  With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of riches and wealthy state thought they might do what they listed. And doubtless he spared no kind of people, but was indifferent to all men, as well rich as poor, to the great shame of no small number of men nowadays. Whereas many we see so addicted to the pleasing of great and rich men, that in the meantime they have no regard to the meaner sort of poor people, whom Christ hath bought as dearly as the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One half who graduate from college never read another book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66133]]></link><description><![CDATA[One half who graduate from college never read another book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were very wrong in October. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were very wrong in October.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66191]]></link><description><![CDATA[A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5684]]></link><description><![CDATA[In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow-men, not knowing what they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door;  And wit to seize the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26007]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door;  And wit to seize the flitting guest   Need never hunger more.    But while the loitering idler waits     Good luck beside his fire,      The bold heart storms at fortune's gates,       And conquers its desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21172]]></link><description><![CDATA[My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19702]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The girls played well. We did not shoot well, but the defense was brilliant. Rochester is a quality team, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The girls played well. We did not shoot well, but the defense was brilliant. Rochester is a quality team, a strong team. They passed well, they played well, they played hard and they played fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63684]]></link><description><![CDATA[A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my fingers crossed because still nothing is accepted, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my fingers crossed because still nothing is accepted,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22012]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34767]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I absolutely believe that an audit is warranted; 20 years is too long, ... There have been a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31135]]></link><description><![CDATA[I absolutely believe that an audit is warranted; 20 years is too long, ... There have been a lot of allegations about this board, but the key word is 'allegations.' We need to, hopefully through an audit, see if the allegations have any merit. I'm not necessarily digging for any unethical behavior, but after 20 years, I think we should take a look.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To seek a laurel wreath from a bride-cake. [To seek glory by some trifling performance. A carpet knight.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48532]]></link><description><![CDATA[To seek a laurel wreath from a bride-cake. [To seek glory by some trifling performance. A carpet knight.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was happy about it, because now I could just throw everything in one big bin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36399]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was happy about it, because now I could just throw everything in one big bin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing again, with your dear voice revealing A tone  Of some world far from ours,   Where music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing again, with your dear voice revealing A tone  Of some world far from ours,   Where music and moonlight and feeling    Are one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complain to one who can help you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complain to one who can help you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9250</guid></item></channel></rss>