<?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[Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66732]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least when you are dead you will know what silence truly sounds like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11420]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least when you are dead you will know what silence truly sounds like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there, From me, whose love was of that dignity  That it went hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12076]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there, From me, whose love was of that dignity  That it went hand in hand even with the vow   I made to her in marriage, and to decline    Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor     To those of mine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/735]]></link><description><![CDATA[What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a worrisome malady. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a worrisome malady.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60536]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17044]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is the science which considers truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is the science which considers truth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man. [Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man. [Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est dives pauperi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11700]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Future Shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Future Shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. -Alvin Toffler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664  Continuing a short series on prayer:   All outward power that we exercise in the things about us is but a shadow in comparison of that inward power that resides in our will, imagination, and desires; these communicate with eternity and kindle a life which always reaches either Heaven or hell... Here lies the ground of the great efficacy of prayer, which when it is the prayer of the heart, the prayer of faith, has a kindling and creating power, and forms and transforms the soul into everything that the desire reaches after: it has the key to the Kingdom of Heaven and unlocks all its treasures; it opens, extends and moves that in us which has its being and motion in and with the divine nature. and so it brings us into real union and Communion with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's wide open, ... The obesity market is unique in that it is probably the largest market in the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35454]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's wide open, ... The obesity market is unique in that it is probably the largest market in the world. However, nothing really works well in terms of safety and tolerability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a little wife well will'd, are great riches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61370]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a little wife well will'd, are great riches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes find ourselves at a loss as to whether we should be more appalled at the Bush Administration's ideological ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34585]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes find ourselves at a loss as to whether we should be more appalled at the Bush Administration's ideological obsession, its incompetence, its arrogance, its anti-intellectualism, or its dishonesty, ... In New Orleans, we see all of these forces at work in a manner that the mainstream media finally finds itself unable to ignore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's not a whole lot of feeling to it, ... I can feel it pumping inside, but it's not an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40394]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's not a whole lot of feeling to it, ... I can feel it pumping inside, but it's not an uncomfortable feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13251]]></link><description><![CDATA["Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember, pain makes people change. So dont hurt them when you do not want them to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember, pain makes people change. So dont hurt them when you do not want them to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are unwilling to take positions. There is concern about the Australian dollar because of its connection to rates, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41923]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are unwilling to take positions. There is concern about the Australian dollar because of its connection to rates, but also because everybody gets nervous around such volatility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water which is too pure has no fish ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water which is too pure has no fish]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We handle about 5,000 cases a year, and the average is about 50 percent. That's up from 2003, when health ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38698]]></link><description><![CDATA[We handle about 5,000 cases a year, and the average is about 50 percent. That's up from 2003, when health care was the main issue in about 45 or 46 percent of our cases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was playing a little catch-up this spring and wasn't as sharp as we would have anticipated him to be. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38081]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was playing a little catch-up this spring and wasn't as sharp as we would have anticipated him to be. He has quickly turned that around and really has played some great lacrosse in recent weeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66862]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I value the privacy of my home and personal life extremely highly and am prepared to take appropriate measures to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42049]]></link><description><![CDATA[I value the privacy of my home and personal life extremely highly and am prepared to take appropriate measures to protect it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   The gaps in his education ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   The gaps in his education were of marvelous service to him. More learned, the formal logic of the schools would have robbed him of that flower of simplicity which is the great charm of his life; he would have seen the whole extent of the sore of the Church, and would no doubt have despaired of healing it. If he had known ecclesiastical discipline, he would have felt obliged to observe it; but, thanks to his ignorance, he could often violate it without knowing it, and be a heretic quite unawares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down;  Each thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down;  Each thought on the woman who loved him the best,   And the children stood watching them out of the town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56740]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I called Dave up to write some songs. It just snowballed from there and became ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41401]]></link><description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I called Dave up to write some songs. It just snowballed from there and became a Soft Cell record. There's still a strong chemistry between us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand the power of this kind of an institution to improve the quality of life for people. I've worked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand the power of this kind of an institution to improve the quality of life for people. I've worked in nonprofit, humanities-oriented projects all of my life. For me personally, the opportunity to support people's ideas is critical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect  God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore   Only among ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect  God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore   Only among the crowd and under roofs    That our frail hands have raised?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette requires us to admire the human race ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette requires us to admire the human race]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39108]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1870]]></link><description><![CDATA[It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in a small way. -Edith Wharton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4506]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind in ones face makes one wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind in ones face makes one wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49933</guid></item></channel></rss>