<?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[I do perceive that the old proverb be not alwaies trew, for I do finde that the absence of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do perceive that the old proverb be not alwaies trew, for I do finde that the absence of my Nath, doth breeds in me the more continuall remembrance of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To keep my hands from picking and stealing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59127]]></link><description><![CDATA[To keep my hands from picking and stealing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47158]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and talk too much of Prosperpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down. Aye, and Ben Jonson too. O that B.J. is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving poets a pill, but our fellow, Shakespeare, hath given him a purge that made him beray his credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is going to steamroll, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40706]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is going to steamroll,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many young people carrying real or imitation firearms do so in a mistaken attempt to either boost their image, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many young people carrying real or imitation firearms do so in a mistaken attempt to either boost their image, or from a misguided idea about self-protection. In addition, most London shootings involve members of the black community and are often related to deprivation, gang rivalry or the illegal drug trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24419]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess some of this was brought on myself, my stupidity. I don't know if it was naivety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess some of this was brought on myself, my stupidity. I don't know if it was naivety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My whole thing is when I get my opportunity, I need to take advantage of it. I don't know how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39145]]></link><description><![CDATA[My whole thing is when I get my opportunity, I need to take advantage of it. I don't know how the situation is going to be, but going into practices, I'll go in just trying to compete with everybody else and give 100 percent. At the end of the day, I'll feel good about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear has its use but cowardice has none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear has its use but cowardice has none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I dream, I am ageless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52103]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I dream, I am ageless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pulled it out. It's too hard to handle that whole thing right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33630]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pulled it out. It's too hard to handle that whole thing right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, shall pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16428]]></link><description><![CDATA[While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would also like the portraits to remain in Austria. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would also like the portraits to remain in Austria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6184]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes into a mere "winning" of them to this or that mutually exclusive version of the "Truth", very often descends to a use of people for more-or-less irrelevant ends (already an evil), and can then so easily degenerate into a total misuse of people for alleged evangelical "results" with the consequent loss of all respect for people and their souls, and the withering of the original concern and love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am inhabited by a cry.Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.I am terrified by this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26896]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am inhabited by a cry.Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had very little confidence in myself as an actress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beggars must be no choosers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beggars must be no choosers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it about the fact that it's people of short stature wrestling, that's when you're inviting the exploitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66705]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water is the mother of the vine, The nurse and fountain of fecundity,  The adorner and refresher of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water is the mother of the vine, The nurse and fountain of fecundity,  The adorner and refresher of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890  May I be patient! It is so difficult to make real what one believes, and to make these trials, as they are intended, real blessings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Network security and the ability to operate in the face of disaster are some of the top concerns for integrated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Network security and the ability to operate in the face of disaster are some of the top concerns for integrated communications providers. In today's converged telecom market, security solutions are more critical than ever before and Telecom NEXT is the only place to see the latest advances in network security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5941]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pilot project verifies that we're delivering [new products] as the customers wanted them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35917]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pilot project verifies that we're delivering [new products] as the customers wanted them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a new system, but it is a lot like the system he ran with the Rams in the past. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30518]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a new system, but it is a lot like the system he ran with the Rams in the past. He's fit back into a system he knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In few, they hurried us aboard a bark, Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared  A rotten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56194]]></link><description><![CDATA[In few, they hurried us aboard a bark, Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared  A rotten carcass of a butt, not rigged,   Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats    Instinctively have quit it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard enough, even with the best will in the world, to be just. It is hard, under the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8526]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard enough, even with the best will in the world, to be just. It is hard, under the pressure of haste, uneasiness, ill-temper, self-complacency, and conceit, to continue intending justice. Power corrupts; the "insolence of office" will creep in. We see it so clearly in our superiors; is it unlikely that our inferiors see it in us? How many of those who have been over us did not sometimes (perhaps often) need our forgiveness? Be sure that we likewise need the forgiveness of those that are under us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. [Fr., Je me hate de me moquer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. [Fr., Je me hate de me moquer de tous, de peur d'etre oblige d'en pleurer.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45587]]></link><description><![CDATA[All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26387]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22053]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constantly practice the habit of inwardly gazing upon God. You know that something inside your heart sees God. Even when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constantly practice the habit of inwardly gazing upon God. You know that something inside your heart sees God. Even when you are compelled to withdraw your conscious attention in order to engage in earthly affairs, there is within you a secret communion always going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're robbing a bank and you're pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh and to let the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11710]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're robbing a bank and you're pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh and to let the hostages laugh too, because, come on, life is funny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism never won any battle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism never won any battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53876]]></link><description><![CDATA[And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9618]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46543]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16821</guid></item></channel></rss>