<?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[A small number of IT vendors are at the moment putting customers at risk of unwittingly running illegal software. Microsoft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42595]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small number of IT vendors are at the moment putting customers at risk of unwittingly running illegal software. Microsoft will not tolerate illegal copies of its software being sold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself  In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13101]]></link><description><![CDATA[My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself  In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice   Infects one comma in the course I hold,    But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,     Leaving no tract behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28761]]></link><description><![CDATA[In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hockey is our national theater, our water cooler talk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hockey is our national theater, our water cooler talk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are designated friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are designated friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28033]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For trouts are tickled best in muddy water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59739]]></link><description><![CDATA[For trouts are tickled best in muddy water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39310]]></link><description><![CDATA[So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55732]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light.  The airs that hover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light.  The airs that hover in the summer sky   Are all asleep to-night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Except I be by Sylvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Except I be by Sylvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach shows me spots where I disappear, where I'm too passive. If I don't want the ball, if I'm not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach shows me spots where I disappear, where I'm too passive. If I don't want the ball, if I'm not aggressive, I'm out there for no reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse designed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse designed by committee. If it was God's committeefor an animal adapted to communities without water..it was a divine consensus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a cottage I live, and the cot of content, Where a few little rooms for ambition too low,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9941]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a cottage I live, and the cot of content, Where a few little rooms for ambition too low,  Are furnish'd as plain as a patriarch's tent,   With all for convenience, but nothing for show:    Like Robinson Crusoe's, both peaceful and pleasant,     By industry stor'd, like the hive of a bee;      And the peer who looks down with contempt on a peasant.       Can ne'er be look'd up to with envy by me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The amount of turnovers was unbelievable, especially at the beginning. It seemed like we never got a shot off for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The amount of turnovers was unbelievable, especially at the beginning. It seemed like we never got a shot off for such a long period of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts".....Gerald O'Hara, Gone With The Wind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget what you need to remember. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget what you need to remember.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's extremity is God's opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's extremity is God's opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12389</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[The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing safe in religion, except in such a course of behaviour that leaves nothing for corrupt nature to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7008]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing safe in religion, except in such a course of behaviour that leaves nothing for corrupt nature to feed or live upon; which can only then be done when every degree of perfection we aim at is a degree of death to the passions of the natural man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Milosevic was in power all ethnic Albanians preferred having the west on their side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41762]]></link><description><![CDATA[While Milosevic was in power all ethnic Albanians preferred having the west on their side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; And each brave foe was in his soul a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are a very scary team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36195]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are a very scary team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Same-sex marriage is not the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Same-sex marriage is not the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The screeners exhibited some eye irritation, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30623]]></link><description><![CDATA[The screeners exhibited some eye irritation,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UPS now flies to more points in China than any other US airline, freight or passenger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32891]]></link><description><![CDATA[UPS now flies to more points in China than any other US airline, freight or passenger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've helped with what I've needed, here and at home, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37368]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've helped with what I've needed, here and at home,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopicallythin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21303]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopicallythin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the mostgigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cure for anything is saltwater--sweat, tears, or the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cure for anything is saltwater--sweat, tears, or the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette requires us to admire the human race ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette requires us to admire the human race]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In things essential, unity; in doubtful, liberty; in all things, charity. [Lat., In necessasariis, unitas; In dubiis, libertas; in omnibus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5704]]></link><description><![CDATA[In things essential, unity; in doubtful, liberty; in all things, charity. [Lat., In necessasariis, unitas; In dubiis, libertas; in omnibus, caritas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to cover our bases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31598]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to cover our bases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64379]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just need to be a lot more consistent as an offensive line and as a team in the passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40369]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just need to be a lot more consistent as an offensive line and as a team in the passing game and the running game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2685]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall down seven times, stand up eight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall down seven times, stand up eight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21837</guid></item></channel></rss>