<?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[We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27868]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My potential speaks for itself. (who finished the year ranked 111 in 1998.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57530]]></link><description><![CDATA[My potential speaks for itself. (who finished the year ranked 111 in 1998.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave.  I see the Rhine in his native ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave.  I see the Rhine in his native wild   Is still a mighty mountain child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42044]]></link><description><![CDATA[If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just a great stock to own here, ... The company is growing in excess of 20 percent. The demographics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37125]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just a great stock to own here, ... The company is growing in excess of 20 percent. The demographics are great for education. The company is selling at about 15 times what we think they can earn next year. It's also one of the few independent publishers left and so we think it's a strategic acquisition candidate, probably worth over $60 a share, and the stock's at about $45.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all the silent manliness of grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18330]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all the silent manliness of grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one wants to start with the proposition that it's obviously in their (Conservatives') advantage to have the election in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30780]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one wants to start with the proposition that it's obviously in their (Conservatives') advantage to have the election in January-February, no, the data doesn't support that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27126]]></link><description><![CDATA[God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand!  Amidst their tall ancestral trees,   O'er all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand!  Amidst their tall ancestral trees,   O'er all the pleasant land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building and marrying of Children are great wasters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness induces caprice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness induces caprice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentle Spring!--in sunshine clad, Well dost thou thy power display!  For Winter maketh the light heart said,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentle Spring!--in sunshine clad, Well dost thou thy power display!  For Winter maketh the light heart said,   And thou,--makest the sad heart gay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law itself follows gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law itself follows gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56112]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicians mend or end us; but though in health we sneer; when sick we call them to attend us, without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicians mend or end us; but though in health we sneer; when sick we call them to attend us, without the least propensity to jeer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to get as far as we did (in 2004). I don't like being the only one upset after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32608]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to get as far as we did (in 2004). I don't like being the only one upset after a loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,  Making it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,  Making it momentany as a sound,   Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,    Brief as the lightning in the collied night,     That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,      And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'       The jaws of darkness do devour it up:        So quick bright things come to confusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got sloppy at times, but picked it up and didn't let ourselves spiral downward. The team has been working ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31795]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got sloppy at times, but picked it up and didn't let ourselves spiral downward. The team has been working on combinations and communication, which has helped us a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man I am, cross'd with adversity. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man I am, cross'd with adversity. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that knowes nothing, doubts nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49371]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that knowes nothing, doubts nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the perfect opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38702]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the perfect opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709   When we inculcate that faith ought to be certain and secure, we conceive not of a certainty attended with no doubt, or of a security interrupted by no anxiety; but we rather affirm, that believers have a perpetual conflict with their own diffidence, and are far from placing their consciences in a placid calm never disturbed by any storms. Yet, on the other hand, we deny, however they may be afflicted, that they ever fall and depart from that certain confidence which they have conceived in the divine mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War will cease when men refuse to fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27657]]></link><description><![CDATA[War will cease when men refuse to fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mayor says he supports the Republican Party, but we do not yet have a bipartisan commission. The mayor is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mayor says he supports the Republican Party, but we do not yet have a bipartisan commission. The mayor is not running a Republican on the ticket, but is always reaching out for the Republican vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service to others is the rent which you pay for your room here on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service to others is the rent which you pay for your room here on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sword keeres another in the sheath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49700]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sword keeres another in the sheath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. . -C.G. Jung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37182]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65398]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  As the devil showed great skill in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  As the devil showed great skill in tempting men to perdition., equal skill ought to be shown in saving them. The devil studied the nature of each man, seized upon the traits of his soul, adjusted himself to them and insinuated himself gradually into his victims's confidence -- suggesting splendors to the ambitious, gain to the covetous, delight to the sensuous, and a false appearance of piety to the pious -- and a winner of souls ought to act in the same cautious and skillful way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe. [Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe. [Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44292]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19272]]></link><description><![CDATA[No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They come to see and be seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50786]]></link><description><![CDATA[They come to see and be seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26450]]></link><description><![CDATA[One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you're not at your best, but all that matters is two points. This was a perfect example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you're not at your best, but all that matters is two points. This was a perfect example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40031</guid></item></channel></rss>