<?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[Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's tough to compare to anyone, I think, because of not only his success but the longevity of his success. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30469]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's tough to compare to anyone, I think, because of not only his success but the longevity of his success. I mean, who pitches for 20-some years and has only one losing season and at the age of 43 has a sub-2.00 ERA?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He doth nothing but talk of his horse. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55554]]></link><description><![CDATA[He doth nothing but talk of his horse. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4817]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55018]]></link><description><![CDATA[God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44830]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is there so much month left at the end of the money? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64562]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52923]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was our season tonight. We had to lay it on the line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37607]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was our season tonight. We had to lay it on the line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.   - Michael Eyquen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54486]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.   - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17034]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea is the only level which moves the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9405]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea is the only level which moves the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14757]]></link><description><![CDATA[After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25474]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41529]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57063]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38794]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is the parent of all psychology ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is the parent of all psychology]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We picked up at the start of the second half the way we finished the first. The Duke game was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We picked up at the start of the second half the way we finished the first. The Duke game was a tough loss. We know we could have won that game. All we could do was watch the tape of it and learn our lesson, not make the same mistakes again and that's what we did against Wake Forest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dating to just over four million years ago, the fossils represent unambiguous evidence for human evolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dating to just over four million years ago, the fossils represent unambiguous evidence for human evolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57527]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart is ever at your service, my lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55225]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart is ever at your service, my lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cforce does exactly what we need. Working from within Salesforce, I was immediately able to start sending emails without having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cforce does exactly what we need. Working from within Salesforce, I was immediately able to start sending emails without having to deal with a confusing list import process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None is borne Master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49659]]></link><description><![CDATA[None is borne Master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the U.K. government does not curb aviation growth, all other sectors of the economy will eventually be forced to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39967]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the U.K. government does not curb aviation growth, all other sectors of the economy will eventually be forced to become carbon neutral. It will undermine the competitiveness of U.K. industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We definitely look forward to these events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34675]]></link><description><![CDATA[We definitely look forward to these events.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  Belief in God through Christ is the most important of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  Belief in God through Christ is the most important of all aids to the following of Christ, but (let us never forget) the following is the great thing. To those who, by whatever means they are attracted to Him, really seek to do God's will as He revealed it, Christ will prove a Saviour -- a Saviour from sin, a Saviour from the power of sin here, and from the misery which sin brings with it here and hereafter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are probably extreme cases. More often, structures are calibrated so that assets pay down while a derivative amortizes. Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37702]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are probably extreme cases. More often, structures are calibrated so that assets pay down while a derivative amortizes. Most investors, who do not want their returns squeezed, would insist that the original transactions are modified to contain risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34928]]></link><description><![CDATA[A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61107]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29550]]></link><description><![CDATA[However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47905]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though Romeo might not say it, I'm sure Sunday is going to be different than any other game he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though Romeo might not say it, I'm sure Sunday is going to be different than any other game he's ever coached,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62452]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to love and be wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25831]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to love and be wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47028</guid></item></channel></rss>