<?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 speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18169]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right is its own defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right is its own defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself necessary to somebody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself necessary to somebody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43434]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse,  Not more distinct from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse,  Not more distinct from harmony divine   The constant creaking of a country sign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boston Globe is just struggling mightily. It's a function of the Boston economy; it's a function of the mergers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boston Globe is just struggling mightily. It's a function of the Boston economy; it's a function of the mergers of advertisers like Bank of America and Fleet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1272]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known;  Dim in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known;  Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns,   And all the joys of life with health have flown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to the wound , what women make best is the bandage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to the wound , what women make best is the bandage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19701]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea-bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I watched the replay five times and it wasn't a foul. It was a foul on him. I didn't even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I watched the replay five times and it wasn't a foul. It was a foul on him. I didn't even get the charge. He was falling before I even got there. When a rookie ref gets put in that situation -- somebody who weighs 215 going against somebody who weighs 165 -- it's an obvious call to make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10029]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never put off til tomorow what can be put off til the day after tomorow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never put off til tomorow what can be put off til the day after tomorow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore,  "For God's sake," others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12144]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore,  "For God's sake," others to assist.   [Ger., Nein, nein! Der Teufel ist ein Egoist    Und thut nicht leicht um Gottes Willen,     Was einem Andern nutzlich ist.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an Arab city living in a unique moment in history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28270]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an Arab city living in a unique moment in history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Count your age with friends but not with years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Count your age with friends but not with years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21041]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66738]]></link><description><![CDATA[My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This category is fraught with issues as to whether publishers can even say go ahead and use them because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28963]]></link><description><![CDATA[This category is fraught with issues as to whether publishers can even say go ahead and use them because they may not have the rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18020]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64854]]></link><description><![CDATA[All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54733]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was time I got real aggressive inside. The coaches have been telling me when I get the ball inside, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40556]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was time I got real aggressive inside. The coaches have been telling me when I get the ball inside, to score it instead of passing it back outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover,  Wanting the scythe, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover,  Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank,   Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems    But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs,     Losing both beauty and utility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that that domain expertise will preclude the MCAD and [product data management] vendors form getting more involved in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40442]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that that domain expertise will preclude the MCAD and [product data management] vendors form getting more involved in this space. But we will need tight alliances with MCAD vendors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43576]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joking apart, now let us be serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joking apart, now let us be serious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15730]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they him spy, As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,  Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17200]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they him spy, As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,  Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,   Rising and cawing at the gun's report,    Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky;     So at his sight away his fellows fly,      And at our stamp here o'er and o'er one falls;       He murder cries and help from Athens calls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You rely on senior hitters to do their job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35543]]></link><description><![CDATA[You rely on senior hitters to do their job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Families with babies and families without are so sorry for each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Families with babies and families without are so sorry for each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really wasn't even thinking about getting into the end zone. I was just trying to get upfield and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really wasn't even thinking about getting into the end zone. I was just trying to get upfield and not fumble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43724]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in "believing" in God]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13929</guid></item></channel></rss>