<?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[Perhaps we will drink a drop of champagne. This is an undeniable victory for a social movement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps we will drink a drop of champagne. This is an undeniable victory for a social movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29602</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[Dry feet, warme head, bring safe to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dry feet, warme head, bring safe to bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43922]]></link><description><![CDATA[For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me [the pope] was the incarnation of all that is capitalism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42344]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me [the pope] was the incarnation of all that is capitalism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55612]]></link><description><![CDATA[You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66104]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is the politeness of kings ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is the politeness of kings]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish you every kind of prosperity, with a little more taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish you every kind of prosperity, with a little more taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24374]]></link><description><![CDATA[God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took our time to examine all the alternatives. We tried to make the best deal we could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took our time to examine all the alternatives. We tried to make the best deal we could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will never try to develop a strategy that wins on price. There is nothing unique about pricing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20826]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will never try to develop a strategy that wins on price. There is nothing unique about pricing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A really patient servant of God is as ready to bear inglorious troubles as those which are honorable. A brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7234]]></link><description><![CDATA[A really patient servant of God is as ready to bear inglorious troubles as those which are honorable. A brave man can easily bear with contempt, slander, and false accusations from an evil world; but to bear such injustice at the hands of good men, of friends and relations, is a great test of patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good preacher should have these qualities and virtues: first, to teach systematically; second, he should have a ready wit; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8325]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good preacher should have these qualities and virtues: first, to teach systematically; second, he should have a ready wit; third, he should be eloquent; fourth, he should have a good voice; fifth, a good memory; sixth, he should know when to make an end; seventh, he should be sure of his doctrine; eighth, he should venture and engage body and blood, wealth and honor, in the world; ninth, he should suffer himself to be mocked and jeered of everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were at such a fever pitch over getting to setting the referendum date and amount ... that I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36740]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were at such a fever pitch over getting to setting the referendum date and amount ... that I think having gotten to that point everybody heaved a sigh of relief and the air went out of the tires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usually you can point the finger at the consumers of intel ... the political and military leaders ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usually you can point the finger at the consumers of intel ... the political and military leaders]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9467]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20886]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowersyou. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowersyou.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search  The hearts of young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4113]]></link><description><![CDATA[For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search  The hearts of young and old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2151]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atlanta? I think it's the greatest city anywhere I know of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Atlanta? I think it's the greatest city anywhere I know of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm staying in shape. You never know what can happen. Right now it looks like I might play in Europe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37270]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm staying in shape. You never know what can happen. Right now it looks like I might play in Europe if I don't make the practice squad,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just then, as by the tumult riven, Poured down at once the lowering heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just then, as by the tumult riven, Poured down at once the lowering heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are what their mothers made them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are what their mothers made them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4771]]></link><description><![CDATA[By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,  Lest I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,  Lest I should fear and fall, and miss Thee so   Who art not missed by any that entreat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a juried show. We look at the crafts and make sure they are handmade. We try to be careful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33308]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a juried show. We look at the crafts and make sure they are handmade. We try to be careful about the balance so we have a mix of everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm  It is the woman's part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51242]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm  It is the woman's part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/933]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilized man has always had a great inclination to read his conceptions and feelings into the mind of primitive man; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilized man has always had a great inclination to read his conceptions and feelings into the mind of primitive man; but he has only a limited capacity for understanding the latter's undeveloped mental life and for interpreting, as it were, his nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation here involves bringing people together. The program has been down basketball-wise for a long time. The easy way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation here involves bringing people together. The program has been down basketball-wise for a long time. The easy way to break the ice is with a sense of humor. Not making light of it, but using it to break the ice. Personality and having a sense of humor helps generate people's interest and puts them at a sense of ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor dancer will be disturbed even by the hem of her skirt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11008]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor dancer will be disturbed even by the hem of her skirt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general, they tend to get (up to) one-and-a-half percent of traffic, so you sign up a couple billion-dollar exchanges ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30309]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general, they tend to get (up to) one-and-a-half percent of traffic, so you sign up a couple billion-dollar exchanges and you are in good shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[right before you came, I almost completely tipped over like a board -- 'Timber!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31437]]></link><description><![CDATA[right before you came, I almost completely tipped over like a board -- 'Timber!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31437</guid></item></channel></rss>