<?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[If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27826]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23116]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, which a cat observing, asked, "Why he would hoard up those round shining things that he could make no use of?" "Why," said the jackdaw, "my master has a whole chestfull, and makes no more use of them that I do."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, good my lord, Let there be some more test made of my mettle  Before so noble and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, good my lord, Let there be some more test made of my mettle  Before so noble and so great a figure   Be stamped upon it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thoughtto be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thoughtto be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always hated that heÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢d never be able to donate blood for someone else, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29334]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always hated that heÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢d never be able to donate blood for someone else,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Retort Courteous;… the Quip Modest;… the Reply Churlish;… the Reproof Valiant;… the Countercheck Quarrelsome;… the Lie with Circumstance;… the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Retort Courteous;… the Quip Modest;… the Reply Churlish;… the Reproof Valiant;… the Countercheck Quarrelsome;… the Lie with Circumstance;… the Lie Direct. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As certain as the Correggiosity of Correggio. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45412]]></link><description><![CDATA[As certain as the Correggiosity of Correggio.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9738]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what it was. I don't think we played very well for some reason. We had some injuries. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what it was. I don't think we played very well for some reason. We had some injuries. But that's no excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17088]]></link><description><![CDATA[What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology funds and small-cap funds are where the volatility is going to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology funds and small-cap funds are where the volatility is going to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a trend that is certainly being noticed around the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34146]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a trend that is certainly being noticed around the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age. [Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48963]]></link><description><![CDATA[An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age. [Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream the impossible dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream the impossible dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand;  I stooped, and wrote upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand;  I stooped, and wrote upon the sand   My name, the year, the day.    As onward from the sport I passed,     One lingering look behind I cast,      A wave came rolling high and fast,       And washed my lines away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63817]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look for in-line fourth-quarter financial results and more upbeat guidance for 2006 than Amgen provided at this time last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41858]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look for in-line fourth-quarter financial results and more upbeat guidance for 2006 than Amgen provided at this time last year for 2005.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce  Lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23502]]></link><description><![CDATA[So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce  Lie still without a fee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent partie is still faultie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent partie is still faultie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dollar Diplomacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dollar Diplomacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you."   - Iphicrates, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2495]]></link><description><![CDATA["My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you."   - Iphicrates,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is part of our compliance with the Press Law, which bans all obscene publications. It is also part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34724]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is part of our compliance with the Press Law, which bans all obscene publications. It is also part of our agreement with our owners, the U.S. Playboy magazine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economics is first and foremost about the thoughts leading up to choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economics is first and foremost about the thoughts leading up to choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32309]]></link><description><![CDATA[You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sky has made a lot of acquisitions. We're a disciplined acquirer. We have a strong track record. This is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sky has made a lot of acquisitions. We're a disciplined acquirer. We have a strong track record. This is the third acquisition that's been over $2 billion in deposits, so it's not outsized. This isn't something we don't know what to do with. So we're already in motion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like this new law, because your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like this new law, because your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics makes estranged bedfellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics makes estranged bedfellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39597]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale, And in the distant ray what glimmering sail  Bends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56193]]></link><description><![CDATA[But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale, And in the distant ray what glimmering sail  Bends to the storm?--Now sinks the note of fear!   Ah! wretched mariners!--no more shall day    Unclose his cheering eye to light ye on your way!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earnings have been good, but what you're starting to see is a return to the attitude about earnings that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earnings have been good, but what you're starting to see is a return to the attitude about earnings that we saw in the late 1990's, where you're seeing more talk about whisper numbers, higher expectations, and a more punitive reaction to numbers that disappoint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We refused to assume - one of the central obligations of parenthood: to make ourselves the final authority on good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44752]]></link><description><![CDATA[We refused to assume - one of the central obligations of parenthood: to make ourselves the final authority on good and bad, right and wrong, and to take the consequences of what might turn out to be a lifetime battle]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Election campaigns are allowed for all registered coalitions and political parties within the frame of the commission's regulations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Election campaigns are allowed for all registered coalitions and political parties within the frame of the commission's regulations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold on, and wait for the grasshoppers. [Wait for better times.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold on, and wait for the grasshoppers. [Wait for better times.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To buy deare is not bounty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50001]]></link><description><![CDATA[To buy deare is not bounty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16503]]></link><description><![CDATA[His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride:  Let Nature guide thee; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46000]]></link><description><![CDATA[To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride:  Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire   The shining belles of the fly require;    The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail,     Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a quintuple bypass in May. It was notMad Cows but sane cows in my arteries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a quintuple bypass in May. It was notMad Cows but sane cows in my arteries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible -- he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that number one, we owe it to our taxpayers to explore what our lands are worth and what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30907]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that number one, we owe it to our taxpayers to explore what our lands are worth and what we want to do. This in no way obligates us to accept offers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like a good hater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18855]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like a good hater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20535]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20535</guid></item></channel></rss>