<?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[You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5244]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr., Vous ne jouez donc pas le whist, monsieur? Helas! quelle triste vieilesse vous vous preparez!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicians are beginning to understand that the only way they'll get in trouble is if they don't do what the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicians are beginning to understand that the only way they'll get in trouble is if they don't do what the patient wanted -- that's why this case is important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our children are our most precious thing. There has to be consequences when a man breaks into another man's home. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our children are our most precious thing. There has to be consequences when a man breaks into another man's home. (Reinhardt) has a good background, but he did a bad thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you're put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There's only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/75]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/75</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hastens a glutton choakes him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hastens a glutton choakes him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61192]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha',  To thee my fancy took its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha',  To thee my fancy took its wing;   I sat, but neither heard nor saw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The forehead is the gate of the mind. [Lat., Frons est animi janua.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The forehead is the gate of the mind. [Lat., Frons est animi janua.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you believe their backgrounds? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can you believe their backgrounds?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52169]]></link><description><![CDATA[All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,  Is better than life with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13071]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,  Is better than life with love forever,   And love is the sweetest thing on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41684]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with the voices as a free obbligato above it, ... That just drives me crazy. I want the vocal line to be as much the core as the bass line. I want to create the illusion that the voice generates harmony, color, line, everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine But only hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47026]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pay for it from the student activity fee and the regular CRC budget process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33083]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pay for it from the student activity fee and the regular CRC budget process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66799]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept these grateful tears! for thee thy flow, For thee, that ever felt another's woe! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept these grateful tears! for thee thy flow, For thee, that ever felt another's woe!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had to run at Texas Tech, which is the defending Big 12 champions, at the University of Oklahoma, at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30363]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had to run at Texas Tech, which is the defending Big 12 champions, at the University of Oklahoma, at the University of Houston and against some other Division I competition. That's probably a little more competition than we needed, but we competed well and now we're ready to see how we do outdoors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64957]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48065]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65762]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could have better spared a better man. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could have better spared a better man. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice  Of one, who from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4112]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice  Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims   Tidings of good to Zion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26813]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50007]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no delight in owning anything unshared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56153]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no delight in owning anything unshared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19533]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66166]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9088]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his copper and pocket a shilling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alan was selected after a comprehensive search and review process. Our paths have crossed frequently over the past 15 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alan was selected after a comprehensive search and review process. Our paths have crossed frequently over the past 15 years and I believe Alan's wealth of experience should be of great value to our Academy in advancing the many exciting initiatives we have for the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63182]]></link><description><![CDATA[An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We religious leaders need to look very much more deeply. We can so easily have talks with people, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6649]]></link><description><![CDATA[We religious leaders need to look very much more deeply. We can so easily have talks with people, and they can say we have helped, write us grateful letters, even stand steady for a time till the juice we have put into them runs out; but, we may have brought them no hunger for God -- because that hunger is no ache in our own heart -- nor brought them anywhere near to the end of self.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn    September 13, 1999  Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407  Not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up in life. These are words by which the slanderers of the nature, of the body, the impeachers of our flesh, are completely overthrown... We do not wish to cast aside the body, but corruption: not the flesh, but death. The body is one thing, corruption another; the body is one thing, death another... What is foreign to us is not the body but corruptibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now ask, Peace be with thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45869]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now ask, Peace be with thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was very pretty irritated. It was kind of scary, having someone call you up like that and ask you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34644]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was very pretty irritated. It was kind of scary, having someone call you up like that and ask you to recant your statement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34644</guid></item></channel></rss>