<?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[The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until it's finished; The ability to do a job without being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until it's finished; The ability to do a job without being supervised; The ability to carry money without spending it; and The ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw the script, ... I called them that night. I liked it that much. I love this character, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32623]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw the script, ... I called them that night. I liked it that much. I love this character, I think he's loaded with love. This is a blustering kind of guy who wears his heart on his sleeve. He tells the truth and that's why I love him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More mild, but yet more harmful; kind in hatred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51519]]></link><description><![CDATA[More mild, but yet more harmful; kind in hatred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18090]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow will give some food for thought. [Lat., Aliquod crastinus dies ad cogitandum dabit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59443]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow will give some food for thought. [Lat., Aliquod crastinus dies ad cogitandum dabit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all they would forget. She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to be soft. She tells them of Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts. They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62442]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western waves. But thou, thyself, movest alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your spirit is the true shield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your spirit is the true shield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43263]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2113]]></link><description><![CDATA[NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Faith is indeed the energy of our whole universe directed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Faith is indeed the energy of our whole universe directed to the highest form of being. Faith gives stability to our view of the universe. By faith we are convinced that our impressions of things without are not dreams or delusions, but, for us, true representations of our environment. By faith we are convinced that the signs of permanence, order, progress, which we observe in nature are true. By faith we are convinced that fellowship is possible with our fellow man and with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been talks for 12 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37446]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been talks for 12 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, andhumanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, andhumanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention to drugs which will end war?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never too late to have a happy childhood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5884]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never too late to have a happy childhood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47995]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My game is predicated on being physical, so I think some teams will be looking for me in the box ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36936]]></link><description><![CDATA[My game is predicated on being physical, so I think some teams will be looking for me in the box and some will be looking for me in space. It's good I could show them both. I feel like I helped myself. I think I had a good Senior Bowl, and at the combine I worked out pretty well. Overall, that should help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't bunch enough hits together. The two double plays really hurt us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37294]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't bunch enough hits together. The two double plays really hurt us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears. [Lat., Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears. [Lat., Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures perdidit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20953]]></link><description><![CDATA[An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It's not just that the personal computer has come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9136]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It's not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had my labor for my travail; ill-thought-on of her, and ill-thought-on of you; gone between and between, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62145]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had my labor for my travail; ill-thought-on of her, and ill-thought-on of you; gone between and between, but small thanks for my labor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commissions taint the whole process, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35067]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commissions taint the whole process,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47992]]></link><description><![CDATA[My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33237]]></link><description><![CDATA[An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then is he really so. [Ger., Wenn jemand bescheiden bleibt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42912]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then is he really so. [Ger., Wenn jemand bescheiden bleibt, nicht beim Lobe, sondern beim Tadel, dann ist er's.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like for her to make more shots for us, but that's not the role she's embraced. Players figure out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37178]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like for her to make more shots for us, but that's not the role she's embraced. Players figure out what their own roles are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63303]]></link><description><![CDATA[When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most communities are under the false impression that if a sex offender moves into the neighborhood, law enforcement would knock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most communities are under the false impression that if a sex offender moves into the neighborhood, law enforcement would knock on their door, but that's just not the case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47402]]></link><description><![CDATA[All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose he is putting bums on seats, but he has been getting a wee bit personal with some of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose he is putting bums on seats, but he has been getting a wee bit personal with some of the things he has said. He keeps saying it will be a war, but he has got me more fired up than I've been for any fight and we'll see how he copes when I meet him in the middle of the ring. I think I'm too good and too hot for him to handle. He's never been at this level before and he's in for a shock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16607]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was most annoying to me as I returned as a tourist with my granddaughter is how seriously you all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41615]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was most annoying to me as I returned as a tourist with my granddaughter is how seriously you all take yourselves. Now, I know it is the capital of the free world and a lot of people there have major important jobs but most don't!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52361]]></link><description><![CDATA[You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14138]]></link><description><![CDATA[More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14138</guid></item></channel></rss>