<?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[A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,  God's latest image. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62626]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,  God's latest image.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair,  His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head,   His eyes on his dusty table, with different documents spread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62446]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11181]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[One option currently under consideration by SGA is to charge students who wish to use the Stingerette for off-campus travel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33090]]></link><description><![CDATA[[One option currently under consideration by SGA is to charge students who wish to use the Stingerette for off-campus travel an additional fee.] We would like to look at the possibility of having students who rode the Stingerette swipe their BuzzCard for off-campus driving, ... There might be reasons it could not work, but we think it's definitely something worth looking at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It currently seems a pretty safe bet that interest rates will not change for several more months to come, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36610]]></link><description><![CDATA[It currently seems a pretty safe bet that interest rates will not change for several more months to come, if at all this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On an ongoing basis, manufacturers are raising prices because they can. It enhances profitability, largely because there are few incremental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32928]]></link><description><![CDATA[On an ongoing basis, manufacturers are raising prices because they can. It enhances profitability, largely because there are few incremental costs, and consumers' response to a higher price is relatively modest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance favors the prepared mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance favors the prepared mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We decided let's put the challenge to them, ... These kids know what's going on at parties, and probably have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39496]]></link><description><![CDATA[We decided let's put the challenge to them, ... These kids know what's going on at parties, and probably have much better ideas as to how they can get the message to their peers in a way that will make them think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48085]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26513]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adultery - Two wrong people doing the right thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adultery - Two wrong people doing the right thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56867]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53177]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to it, and boom, I'm recycling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64110]]></link><description><![CDATA[When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10434]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody drank, ... We were clean livin' rock 'n' rollers, good 'ol boys who just wanted to make music and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody drank, ... We were clean livin' rock 'n' rollers, good 'ol boys who just wanted to make music and took everything for granted. We didn't want a million dollars, we wanted more gigs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't get enough credit. Winning 14 games as a rookie is not bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32652]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't get enough credit. Winning 14 games as a rookie is not bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can complain about somebody that gets elected, when nobody went and voted for him? If you don't like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can complain about somebody that gets elected, when nobody went and voted for him? If you don't like the Democrats, pick you a Republican. Pick somebody. Get off the couch and go vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66731]]></link><description><![CDATA[And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blame is safer than praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blame is safer than praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up here in the north country (areas with high levels of snow), we'd like to see 10 percent more deer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up here in the north country (areas with high levels of snow), we'd like to see 10 percent more deer, in the middle snow fall zone we could have up to 50 percent more deer, and in southern areas where we have a lot of agriculture in the landscape, perhaps around 15 percent fewer deer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54790]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5510]]></link><description><![CDATA[And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56958]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life of honour and of worth Has no eternity on earth,--  'Tis but a name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life of honour and of worth Has no eternity on earth,--  'Tis but a name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27246]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Philip & James, Apostles  Here is opened to us the true reason of the whole process of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Philip & James, Apostles  Here is opened to us the true reason of the whole process of our Saviour's incarnation, passion, death, resurrection, and ascension into Heaven. It was because fallen man was to go through all these stages as necessary parts of his return to God; and therefore, if man was to go out of his fallen state there must be a son of this fallen man, who, as a head and fountain of the whole race, could do all this -- could go back through all these gates and so make it possible for all the individuals of human nature, as being born of Him, to inherit His conquering nature and follow Him through all these passages to eternal life. And thus we see, in the strongest and clearest light, both why and how the holy Jesus is become our great Redeemer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53400]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24100]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I could be a bird, I'd be a Flying Purple People Eater because then people would sing about me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20072]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could be a bird, I'd be a Flying Purple People Eater because then people would sing about me and I could fly down and eat them because I hate that song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skeptics are never deceived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skeptics are never deceived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56493</guid></item></channel></rss>