<?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[He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3127]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd; Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ill that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55480]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd; Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ill that he would well. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves  In drops of sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23437]]></link><description><![CDATA[My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves  In drops of sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I awoke one morning and found myself famous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15094]]></link><description><![CDATA[I awoke one morning and found myself famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12533]]></link><description><![CDATA[What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our 1999 (U.S.) GDP forecast was cut to 0.7 percent from 1.8 percent, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our 1999 (U.S.) GDP forecast was cut to 0.7 percent from 1.8 percent,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer  Than Nature made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer  Than Nature made her; her beauty cost her nothing,   Her virtues were so rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16469]]></link><description><![CDATA[But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14018]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History shows that there are no invincible armies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66337]]></link><description><![CDATA[History shows that there are no invincible armies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. [Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60019]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. [Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo:  Et subito casu, quae valuere, ruunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less we know the more we suspect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less we know the more we suspect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reach the top, keep climbing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12710]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reach the top, keep climbing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10252]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This starts to broaden our footprint to include compliance reporting and alerting capabilities in the high-use areas of the Microsoft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41819]]></link><description><![CDATA[This starts to broaden our footprint to include compliance reporting and alerting capabilities in the high-use areas of the Microsoft infrastructure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3781]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel he'll be a great fit for our team. He'll come in and be our No. 3 quarterback. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30750]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel he'll be a great fit for our team. He'll come in and be our No. 3 quarterback. It gives us some great insurance and a feeling that we can sleep at night that we have a bona fide NFL starter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is consistent with the psyche of Maine. We all feel so overwhelmed by these government entities and in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41993]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is consistent with the psyche of Maine. We all feel so overwhelmed by these government entities and in the process we?re so awful small. This gives us a chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   The dual role of personification of the past and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   The dual role of personification of the past and preserver of a subcultural ethos, a role clergymen play quite avidly, takes its toll when they speak of God. Because of the role they have been willing to play, when they use the word God it is heard in a certain way. It is heard, often with deference and usually with courtesy, as a word referring to the linchpin of the era of Christendom (past) or as the totem of one of the tribal subcultures (irrelevant). The only way clergy can ever change the way in which the word they use is perceived is to refuse to play the role of antiquarian and medicine man in which the society casts them; but this is difficult, because it is what they are paid for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43414]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh--  To join blest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh--  To join blest spirits in celestial lands!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saint abroad, and a devil at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saint abroad, and a devil at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You all know how difficult it is to operate with unanimity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41590]]></link><description><![CDATA[You all know how difficult it is to operate with unanimity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And where the offense is, let the great axe fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54097]]></link><description><![CDATA[And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of the 181 elected Texas legislators serving during the 79th Legislative Session and special called sessions in Austin, only 11 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of the 181 elected Texas legislators serving during the 79th Legislative Session and special called sessions in Austin, only 11 legislators were commended for their conservative voting record. We appreciate those legislators who made Texas families their priority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59334]]></link><description><![CDATA[As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23953]]></link><description><![CDATA[On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15974]]></link><description><![CDATA[The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never professed to be anything but an average student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47085]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never professed to be anything but an average student.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10314]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing father in Heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing father in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in Hell? Can the loving wife in Heaven be happy with her unbelieving husband in Hell? I tell]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before a big fashion house is going to bank a lot of money on her as a star, this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before a big fashion house is going to bank a lot of money on her as a star, this is a little test market. To use her in a fashion sense is more of a commitment, usually with a multiyear contract. This is a great rehabilitation because she can do a one-off. That, plus time, can set her up to be ripe to get back in the fashion game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14649]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21718]]></link><description><![CDATA[There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5240]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8175]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61554]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61554</guid></item></channel></rss>