<?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[To say that which is instructive and also pleasing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48554]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each song, you're telling a story and acting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each song, you're telling a story and acting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur   All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61165]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur   All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. •Kenneth Clark  You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. •Jeannette Rankin   War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The branded industry is losing drugs from patent and the generic industry is circling like buzzards to pick them up. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The branded industry is losing drugs from patent and the generic industry is circling like buzzards to pick them up. It's wonderful for the generic pharmaceutical industry. There's more food on the plate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't read lips unless they're touching mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23853]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't read lips unless they're touching mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth,  And constancy lives in realms above; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth,  And constancy lives in realms above;   And life is thorny, and youth is vain;    And to be wrothe with one we love     Doth work like madness in the brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Department stores during the New Year holiday looked quite busy, reflecting the recovery in consumer spending. Companies that sell high-quality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Department stores during the New Year holiday looked quite busy, reflecting the recovery in consumer spending. Companies that sell high-quality goods, such as Isetan, are good picks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the piece of straw that broke the camel's back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51001]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the piece of straw that broke the camel's back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among them, but not of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among them, but not of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding, which shall not be put out until what you about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding, which shall not be put out until what you about to write is finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is small or great in God's sight; whatever He wills becomes great to us, however trifling, and if once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is small or great in God's sight; whatever He wills becomes great to us, however trifling, and if once the voice of conscience tells us that He requires anything of us, we have no right to measure its importance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no hate lost between us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18858]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no hate lost between us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43094]]></link><description><![CDATA["Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They appeal to people who want something that's going to last and survive the elements and at the same time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42573]]></link><description><![CDATA[They appeal to people who want something that's going to last and survive the elements and at the same time make a strong fashion statement when paired with jeans or a skirt. They're not for the shy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first art to be learned by a ruler is to endure envy. [Lat., Ars prima regni posse te invidiam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first art to be learned by a ruler is to endure envy. [Lat., Ars prima regni posse te invidiam pati.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men,  Dropped from an Angel's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men,  Dropped from an Angel's wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And o'er the hills and far away, Beyond their utmost purple rim,  Beyond the night, across the day,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43318]]></link><description><![CDATA[And o'er the hills and far away, Beyond their utmost purple rim,  Beyond the night, across the day,   Thro' all the world she followed him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2093]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every mess I find a friend, In every port a wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61877]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every mess I find a friend, In every port a wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65398]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be who you are and be that well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be who you are and be that well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws were made to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws were made to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! when duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! when duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without a friend is death without a witnesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without a friend is death without a witnesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a huge play for me because I really owe a lot to the team by accepting me coming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29724]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a huge play for me because I really owe a lot to the team by accepting me coming straight from junior college and just looking at me as a leader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64989]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy. Although in the industrial world bottled water is often no healthier than tap water, it can cost up to 10,000 times more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present joys of life we doubly taste by looking back with pleasure on the past ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present joys of life we doubly taste by looking back with pleasure on the past]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig."  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig."  "And what is the second?" Then, dancing a jig   And bowing profoundly, he said, "A great wig."    "And what is the third?" Then he snored like a pig,     And puffing his cheeks out, he replied, "A great wig."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through her re-enactments of the stereotypical ways in which women and the female body have typically been depicted, she drew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through her re-enactments of the stereotypical ways in which women and the female body have typically been depicted, she drew attention to the power of media images to shape ideas of female identity,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madame, that you may know the state of the rest of my misfortune, there is nothing left to me but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madame, that you may know the state of the rest of my misfortune, there is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved. [Lat., Madame, pour vous faire savoir comme se porte le reste de mon infortune, de toutes choses m'est demeure que l'honneur et la vie qui est sauve.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him and mind the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44859]]></link><description><![CDATA[When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ground up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13450</guid></item></channel></rss>