<?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[Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made a still a blundering kind of melody;  Spurr'd boldly on, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made a still a blundering kind of melody;  Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin,   Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in;    Free from all meaning whether good or bad,     And in one word, heroically mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never apologize and never explain - it's a sign of weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never apologize and never explain - it's a sign of weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's worth at least $2 million, but probably a great deal more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36922]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's worth at least $2 million, but probably a great deal more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65485]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9749]]></link><description><![CDATA[A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking about education]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that in the next few hours, or thereabouts, we will get more concrete information about these hostages, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34273]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that in the next few hours, or thereabouts, we will get more concrete information about these hostages,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poem is the point at which our strength gave out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46776]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was ever precise in promise-keeping. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55375]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was ever precise in promise-keeping. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55278]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise people always think wisely and never otherwise !. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise people always think wisely and never otherwise !.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die:  And as gently lay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die:  And as gently lay my head   On my grave, as now my bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64007]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62987]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The newspaper takes so long to read. Plus, it has so much in it that no longer applies to my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The newspaper takes so long to read. Plus, it has so much in it that no longer applies to my life. So much trivia. I don't fault them for that ? all of it applies to some people's lives but not mine. I feel that I have better things to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51054]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897  When Paul speaks [II Cor. 3] of our being ministers of the New Testament, he does not refer to books most of which were not yet written, but to the gospel, which he found in the Scripture he possessed. The Jews could only see "Old Testament" in Moses and the prophets, because they were blind. To the spiritual all Scripture is gospel, or New Testament (the Law being the schoolmaster, bringing us to Christ), but to the natural and self righteous, as we ought to know from experience and observation, all Scripture (gospels and epistles included) is Old Testament, or Covenant of Works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. [Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. [Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity.  The August-born without this stone   'Tis said must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity.  The August-born without this stone   'Tis said must live unloved and lone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27295]]></link><description><![CDATA[He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is ample precedent for the Security Council to take up the human rights and political situation in a country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30402]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is ample precedent for the Security Council to take up the human rights and political situation in a country with as horrific a record as Burma, especially when suffering spills across borders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3098]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9347]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million year old fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[full partnership ... through close coordination and consultation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36812]]></link><description><![CDATA[full partnership ... through close coordination and consultation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62721]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all have the best focus of anyone I have seen. They know what they have to work on without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38029]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all have the best focus of anyone I have seen. They know what they have to work on without me having to tell them. They remember every shot they take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's still low interest rates, and we're a good buy here in Houston. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40995]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's still low interest rates, and we're a good buy here in Houston.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52673]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know who you are, and I am not impressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55053]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know who you are, and I am not impressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World records are only borrowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57443]]></link><description><![CDATA[World records are only borrowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that thinks amiss, concludes worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49404]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that thinks amiss, concludes worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is for you that paradise is opened, the tree of life is planted, the age to come is prepared, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45461]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is for you that paradise is opened, the tree of life is planted, the age to come is prepared, plenty is provided, a city is built, rest is appointed, goodness is established and wisdom perfected beforehand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of deeds lies in completing them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of deeds lies in completing them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love,  I rather would entreat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love,  I rather would entreat thy company   To see the wonders of the world abroad    Than, living dully sluggardized at home,     Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe in and are developing a broad-based equity plan so that all our people can participate in a stock-option ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34291]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe in and are developing a broad-based equity plan so that all our people can participate in a stock-option program that will enable them to share in the growth potential of the company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34291</guid></item></channel></rss>