<?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[People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12365]]></link><description><![CDATA[People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steve eats, sleeps, breathes the facts of the case. I was just glad to see him back in the courtroom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steve eats, sleeps, breathes the facts of the case. I was just glad to see him back in the courtroom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been campaigning against controls on the Internet in China for many years now. We've been particularly concerned about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41748]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been campaigning against controls on the Internet in China for many years now. We've been particularly concerned about the number of people who have been put in prison just for expressing their opinion on the Internet, or for accessing certain information that the government finds threatening or embarrassing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a true man, and Christ was a true man. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8102]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a true man, and Christ was a true man. His prayer in Gethsemane, his sweat of blood, show that the preceding anxiety is a part of human affliction, which we must try to accept with some sort of submission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. Just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29795]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. Just as they made rivers of blood flow in our countries, we will make volcanoes of anger erupt in their countries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's absolutely outrageous. It's not going to help people lose weight. It's junk science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39747]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's absolutely outrageous. It's not going to help people lose weight. It's junk science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17492]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27409]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4332]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law. [Lat., Quam angusta innocentia est, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20960]]></link><description><![CDATA[What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law. [Lat., Quam angusta innocentia est, ad legem bonum esse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anticipation makes the pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anticipation makes the pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turay had the big shot and it was nice to get the early lead. That was big because we didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turay had the big shot and it was nice to get the early lead. That was big because we didn't know whether this would be a five-inning game or not (because of the weather).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!  Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51237]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!  Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss   I carried from thee dear; and my true lip    Hath virgined it e'er since.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do nothing is also a good remedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1224]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do nothing is also a good remedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GM takes no position on the matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28667]]></link><description><![CDATA[GM takes no position on the matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a lot of information to go through, but what the employees understand is that someone with one type of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29267]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a lot of information to go through, but what the employees understand is that someone with one type of compulsive behavior may be predisposed to other addictive problems. Over time, in working with Harvard, we hope to understand what sort of programs and treatments work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh--  To join blest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh--  To join blest spirits in celestial lands!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I choose dialogue, the other party should define the goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42612]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I choose dialogue, the other party should define the goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything comes if a man will only wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything comes if a man will only wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64679]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 Jesus, as a mother you gather your people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 Jesus, as a mother you gather your people to you:  you are gentle with us as a mother with her children; Often you weep over our sins and our pride:  tenderly you draw us from hatred and judgement. You comfort us in sorrow and bind up our wounds:  in sickness you nurse us,  and with pure milk you feed us. Jesus, by your dying we are born to new life:  by your anguish and labour we come forth in joy. Despair turns to hope through your sweet goodness:  through your gentleness we find comfort in fear. Your warmth gives life to the dead:  your touch makes sinners righteous. Lord Jesus, in your mercy heal us:  in your love and tenderness remake us. In your compassion bring grace and forgiveness:  for the beauty of heaven may your love prepare us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get the kids involved. We'll tell them about three different times, 'Say no and shout,' and then we say, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42395]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get the kids involved. We'll tell them about three different times, 'Say no and shout,' and then we say, 'Ah, we can't hear you?' and they do it again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the advantages to the new plant was that we've promoted people and moved them down there for positions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35359]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the advantages to the new plant was that we've promoted people and moved them down there for positions. We provided them opportunities down there, and in the meantime, opened up sale territories for people in this area. More employment to local area was created as a result of promoting people here to the southern plant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch sand. [Go not out of your depth.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch sand. [Go not out of your depth.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The same thing is happening on the barrier islands, like Longboat Key and Anna Maria, when you have a red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The same thing is happening on the barrier islands, like Longboat Key and Anna Maria, when you have a red tide in the area, ... But the data is not at a fine enough resolution to tease out the economic impact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35821]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow;  But crush'd or trodden to the ground,   Diffuse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow;  But crush'd or trodden to the ground,   Diffuse their balmy sweets around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They pretty much made the Freedom of Information Act a joke. It is like pulling teeth to try to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28417]]></link><description><![CDATA[They pretty much made the Freedom of Information Act a joke. It is like pulling teeth to try to get anything out of them these days. And I am talking about stuff that has historically been readily disclosed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5323]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57581]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19513]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree,  And spreads her sheets o' daisies white   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree,  And spreads her sheets o' daisies white   Out o'er the grassy lea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the physician of each misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the physician of each misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kisses honeyed by oblivion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kisses honeyed by oblivion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23830</guid></item></channel></rss>