<?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[Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms like a malcontent, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms like a malcontent, to relish a love-song like a robin-redbreast, to walk alone like one that had the pestilence, to sigh like a schoolboy that had lost his A B C, to weep like a young wench that had buried her grandam, to fast like one that takes diet, to watch like one that fears robbing, to speak puling like a beggar at Hallowmas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bravest at the last, She levelled at our purposes, and being royal,  Took her own way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bravest at the last, She levelled at our purposes, and being royal,  Took her own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The e-mails are primarily angry that this could happen; that's the most common theme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The e-mails are primarily angry that this could happen; that's the most common theme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The correct strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreign clients is a Japanese strategy: ask questions. When you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The correct strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreign clients is a Japanese strategy: ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefully feel for pressure points. If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Suggest a recess or another meeting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; Remembering without ceasing your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23920]]></link><description><![CDATA[We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;  Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were trying to take the middle away -- and the post -- and they just had too many guys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37461]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were trying to take the middle away -- and the post -- and they just had too many guys that [could] go to the boards. We just didn't have enough size for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote,  Still, still pursues, where'er I be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59203]]></link><description><![CDATA[What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote,  Still, still pursues, where'er I be,   The blight of life--the demon Thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationshipsmoothly and without crisis. There is no birth of consciousness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationshipsmoothly and without crisis. There is no birth of consciousness withoutpain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did a good job from the foul line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34440]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did a good job from the foul line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight;  Farewell awhile to him and thee,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight;  Farewell awhile to him and thee,   My native land--Good Night!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We . . . are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23059]]></link><description><![CDATA[We . . . are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62360]]></link><description><![CDATA[And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically, a La Nina that forms in spring has a tendency for most of Illinois to be dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically, a La Nina that forms in spring has a tendency for most of Illinois to be dry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing Dan did was put in his time at the shop. There's no other way to do it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing Dan did was put in his time at the shop. There's no other way to do it. It's how you learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65515]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be back. (five days after being pummeled in his fight with Mike Tyson.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57531]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be back. (five days after being pummeled in his fight with Mike Tyson.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50265]]></link><description><![CDATA[If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A release order is to be given to the prison administration for the defendants whose names have been mentioned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28427]]></link><description><![CDATA[A release order is to be given to the prison administration for the defendants whose names have been mentioned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health consists with Temperance alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health consists with Temperance alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always weaken whatever we exaggerate. [Fr., On affaiblit toujours tout ce qu'on exagere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61336]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always weaken whatever we exaggerate. [Fr., On affaiblit toujours tout ce qu'on exagere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8724]]></link><description><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us are watchers--of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway--but few are observers. Everyone is looking, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44798]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us are watchers--of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway--but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26648]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2472]]></link><description><![CDATA[In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12954]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe it has been said that one copy of the "Times" contains more useful information than the whole of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe it has been said that one copy of the "Times" contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You hit first or second, you know they're going to come at you because they don't want anybody on base ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35271]]></link><description><![CDATA[You hit first or second, you know they're going to come at you because they don't want anybody on base when he comes up. If he comes up with runners on base, they want to pitch around him and go after Holliday or myself. Having him in there changes the whole dynamic of the team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10614]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return  To plague the inventor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51381]]></link><description><![CDATA[We but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return  To plague the inventor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He (Modi) says that his television stations would be in profit after the first year of a four year deal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42555]]></link><description><![CDATA[He (Modi) says that his television stations would be in profit after the first year of a four year deal and that 'side-deals', as he puts it, were an integral part of the negotiating process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66426]]></link><description><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60899]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19689]]></link><description><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45791]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the runs of Iona.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45791</guid></item></channel></rss>