<?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[Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can Her heart inform her tongue--the swan's down-feather  That stands upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can Her heart inform her tongue--the swan's down-feather  That stands upon the swell at full of tide,   And neither way inclines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes-- Cats--I believe he did but feign to hate.  My hand will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5318]]></link><description><![CDATA[His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes-- Cats--I believe he did but feign to hate.  My hand will miss the insinuated nose,   Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65528]]></link><description><![CDATA[People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hung on the shower that fronts the golden West, The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes!  In hues ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hung on the shower that fronts the golden West, The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes!  In hues of ancient promise there imprest;   Frail in its date, eternal in its guise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could create two Lawns over from the applicants who weren't selected and still have a fantastic community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37741]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could create two Lawns over from the applicants who weren't selected and still have a fantastic community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a Virginian but an American. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a Virginian but an American.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just weren't playing together. I think we used too much emotion in an exciting game on Friday and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39439]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just weren't playing together. I think we used too much emotion in an exciting game on Friday and we the next game we just burned out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person's fate is their own temper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58883]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person's fate is their own temper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During all the years with Pete [Sampras], everybody would talk about the finals. I think Pete and I were the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29178]]></link><description><![CDATA[During all the years with Pete [Sampras], everybody would talk about the finals. I think Pete and I were the only two guys not thinking about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21585]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23415]]></link><description><![CDATA[And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Unix is so damned useful, why is "no" in /usr/dict/words, but "yes" isn't? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60257]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Unix is so damned useful, why is "no" in /usr/dict/words, but "yes" isn't?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25369]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made the wrong turn, especially on the second one. They were hard hit balls, but I'm not going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30329]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made the wrong turn, especially on the second one. They were hard hit balls, but I'm not going to make excuses. I screwed up, and probably cost the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24746]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59004]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each year, every team's goal is to get to the playoffs and then to get to the state championship. Last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each year, every team's goal is to get to the playoffs and then to get to the state championship. Last year, we didn't do that. We want more this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm in the camp that's staying with the stock. We'll watch [stock prices] go down for a while. We expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33123]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm in the camp that's staying with the stock. We'll watch [stock prices] go down for a while. We expect it to recover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[no doubt the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41319]]></link><description><![CDATA[no doubt the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of the Islamic world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June,  That to the sleeping woods all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4918]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June,  That to the sleeping woods all night   Singeth a quiet tune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. -George Bernard Shaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. -George Bernard Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. [Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. [Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's quite a remarkable accomplishment considering that fuel price increases are estimated to cost the company an additional $170 million, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42715]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's quite a remarkable accomplishment considering that fuel price increases are estimated to cost the company an additional $170 million, or 20 cents a share, in 2005.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[leave the holy sites quickly, lay down their weapons and return to the rule of order and law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29771]]></link><description><![CDATA[leave the holy sites quickly, lay down their weapons and return to the rule of order and law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind! The thief doth fear each bush an officer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind! The thief doth fear each bush an officer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a great opportunity for us to meet the people in the community and outline the way they can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29269]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a great opportunity for us to meet the people in the community and outline the way they can benefit from our project. And we are really fortunate to have the backing of many of the local community groups.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29399]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28028]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystical union, on the one hand. The resurrection of the body, on the other. I can't reach the ghost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystical union, on the one hand. The resurrection of the body, on the other. I can't reach the ghost of an image, a formula, or even a feeling, that combines them. But the reality, we are given to understand, does. Reality is the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems--but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when he (man) shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. [Lat., Cum autem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/146]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when he (man) shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. [Lat., Cum autem sublatus fuerit ab oculis, etiam cito transit a mente.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7703]]></link><description><![CDATA[God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man once see his God down in the arena as a Man, -- suffering, tempted, sweating, and agonized, finally dying a criminal's death - and he is a hard man indeed who is untouched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On, Amos Cottle!--Phoebus! what a name! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43638]]></link><description><![CDATA[On, Amos Cottle!--Phoebus! what a name!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9468]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HBO is, and will continue to be, the most profitable network in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31568]]></link><description><![CDATA[HBO is, and will continue to be, the most profitable network in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capacity for joy Admits temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capacity for joy Admits temptation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't gone out too early with our marketing message, and we timed our message with vehicle availability in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42154]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't gone out too early with our marketing message, and we timed our message with vehicle availability in our showroom. We are trying to manage our customers' expectations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47092]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47092</guid></item></channel></rss>