<?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[It is commonly and truly also said: "Matters be ended as they be friended." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13791]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is commonly and truly also said: "Matters be ended as they be friended."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1787]]></link><description><![CDATA[At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59700]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29175]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The specter of war, at least until the 19th of April, seems to have gone away. Until then, the cease-fire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36736]]></link><description><![CDATA[The specter of war, at least until the 19th of April, seems to have gone away. Until then, the cease-fire is bound to hold. But while smiling at each other, both sides will continue making preparations for war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of the trends we saw from Comcast should be reflected in the results of other cable operators, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of the trends we saw from Comcast should be reflected in the results of other cable operators,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ITA SAFE not only helps banks best address regulatory compliance, but enables them to provide the most secure online transactions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42361]]></link><description><![CDATA[ITA SAFE not only helps banks best address regulatory compliance, but enables them to provide the most secure online transactions for their customers. By doing this, banks can recognize reduced operational and customer support expenses, mitigate risk in a proactive manner, and most importantly, increase customer trust online.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieveit through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22753]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieveit through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57034]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die out, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes only one other person to say it's so—one other point ofreality—to make something real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21836]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes only one other person to say it's so—one other point ofreality—to make something real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66437]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66685]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63211]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People get a little fed up and see their portfolio down significantly, and I always laugh to myself, because I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15680]]></link><description><![CDATA[People get a little fed up and see their portfolio down significantly, and I always laugh to myself, because I still got paid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Daughter is a Little Girl who grows up to be a Friend ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5931]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Daughter is a Little Girl who grows up to be a Friend]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mill gets by going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mill gets by going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moonlight is sculpture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moonlight is sculpture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young.  As angels are, ripening through endless years, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young.  As angels are, ripening through endless years,   On one he leans: some call her Memory,    And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet,     With deep mysterious accords: the other,      Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams       A light divine and searching on the earth,        Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields,         Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew,          Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp           Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked            But for Tradition; we walk evermore             To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission; he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that we can win eight of our next ten games. We can do this because I see the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that we can win eight of our next ten games. We can do this because I see the bats coming alive. Its going to be like a light switch for the team producing runs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She that with poetry is won, Is but a desk to write upon;  And what men say of her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62006]]></link><description><![CDATA[She that with poetry is won, Is but a desk to write upon;  And what men say of her they mean   No more than on the thing they lean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown;  I think very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown;  I think very different from thousands; indeed   'Twas a lucky escape for the stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only pass when the opportunity rises. Everyone knows we do most of our work on the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29192]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only pass when the opportunity rises. Everyone knows we do most of our work on the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.  [Ger., Entbehren sollst du! sollst entbehren.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.  [Ger., Entbehren sollst du! sollst entbehren.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5325]]></link><description><![CDATA[As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The names above him [Andrew Strauss] on the list date back generations to the days of cricketing folklore: Herbert Sutcliffe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The names above him [Andrew Strauss] on the list date back generations to the days of cricketing folklore: Herbert Sutcliffe, Len Hutton and Wally Hammond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger should never appear in awarding punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12846]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To throw a blot on a man's reputation by praising him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48533]]></link><description><![CDATA[To throw a blot on a man's reputation by praising him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[They have] bright management, they are cost conscious, they're lowering the costs all the time. They want to be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28650]]></link><description><![CDATA[[They have] bright management, they are cost conscious, they're lowering the costs all the time. They want to be able to survive in between cycles. They're in what would be a very significant well, could be a billion barrel prospect within the next couple of months. My feeling is that the company will do much better as Wall Street gets to know it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39794]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er;  So gently shuts the eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11175]]></link><description><![CDATA[So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er;  So gently shuts the eye of day;   So dies a wave along the shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39355]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  Those who make it a reproach to Christianity that it taught no new morality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  Those who make it a reproach to Christianity that it taught no new morality and invented no new kind of Deity could not be more laughably wide of the mark. What it did was to guarantee that the old morality was actually valid, and the old beliefs literally true. "Ye worship ye know not what, but we know what we worship," "that which we have seen with our eyes and our hands have handled" -- "He suffered under Pontius Pilate." God died -- not in a legend, not in a symbol, not in a distant past nor in a realm unknown, but here, [in the crucifiction of Christ]; the whole great cloudy castle of natural religion and poetic prophecy is brought down to earth and firmly cemented upon that angular and solid cornerstone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching Children to Love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching Children to Love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A compliment is like a kiss through a veil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The justice doesn't have any comment about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39610]]></link><description><![CDATA[The justice doesn't have any comment about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22911</guid></item></channel></rss>