<?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 ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56303]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48657]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only made use of. We will have such-a-one, for he sings prettily; we will invite such-a-one to a ball, for he dances well; we will have such-a-one at supper, for he is always joking and laughing; we will ask another because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and exclude all ideas of esteem and regard. Whoever is had (as it is called) in company for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that thing, and will never be considered in any other light; consequently never respected, let his merits be what they will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, gentle dames! it gars we greet, To think how mony consels sweet,  How mony lengthened, sage advices,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, gentle dames! it gars we greet, To think how mony consels sweet,  How mony lengthened, sage advices,   The husband frae the wife despises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27235]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. - Talking to Myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43526]]></link><description><![CDATA[To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. - Talking to Myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31361]]></link><description><![CDATA[As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who created things, made them up, so much as I know that people edit their memories. We all do this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a dignity in dying that doctors should not dare to deny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11412]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a dignity in dying that doctors should not dare to deny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain  Of finite hearts that yearn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain  Of finite hearts that yearn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62798]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our customers tend to range in age from teenagers to people about 30. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our customers tend to range in age from teenagers to people about 30.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15652]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13659]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very pleased with our men's performances. It makes a big statement for the program with where we've been and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32750]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very pleased with our men's performances. It makes a big statement for the program with where we've been and the direction that we're heading in. Today has been a great accomplishment for our athletes and the school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike my subject, I will make my song. It shall be witty, and it shan't be long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike my subject, I will make my song. It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite frankly, [the bid process] is as intense as any pursuit of a telecom contract I've ever been through representing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite frankly, [the bid process] is as intense as any pursuit of a telecom contract I've ever been through representing BellSouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and proneness to credulity. The urge to escape our real self ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52286]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and proneness to credulity. The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. The refusal to see ourselves as we are develops a distaste for facts and cold logic. There is no hope for the frustrated in the actual and the possible. Salvation can come to them only from the miraculous, which seeps through a crack in the iron wall of inexorable reality. They asked to be deceived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13354]]></link><description><![CDATA[An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65667]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cal/OSHA does not have enough field inspectors to meet its day-to-day responsibilities, let alone effectively investigate complaints at a huge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cal/OSHA does not have enough field inspectors to meet its day-to-day responsibilities, let alone effectively investigate complaints at a huge project like the Bay Bridge retrofit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had not planned on having any vote, other than just to study (the contract), ... It's not a public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30875]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had not planned on having any vote, other than just to study (the contract), ... It's not a public hearing, but it is a study session. We will take comments. And then if it seems suitable to the property owners involved -- who we're most concerned about -- we will have a vote on Sept. 26 (the next council meeting) on this issue to start the ball rolling for a new bridge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester, 'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.'  And since, methinks, I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18401]]></link><description><![CDATA['Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester, 'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.'  And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast,   Because sweet flow'rs are slow and weeds make haste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No adultery is bloodless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20812]]></link><description><![CDATA[No adultery is bloodless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60735]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40637]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.   - John Lyly (Lylie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.   - John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is definitely a trend that's being done more often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is definitely a trend that's being done more often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shot the lights out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34446]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shot the lights out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was growing up, records meant everything to me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35154]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was growing up, records meant everything to me,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in live. Now does he feel his title  Hang loose about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in live. Now does he feel his title  Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe   Upon a dwarfish thief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of guys who are versatile. That's what keeps you in this league sometimes, and we've just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42406]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of guys who are versatile. That's what keeps you in this league sometimes, and we've just got to show that again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is an emotion in motion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is an emotion in motion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were probably there (at the accident scene) 20 minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32336]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were probably there (at the accident scene) 20 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meton: With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle four-cornered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meton: With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle four-cornered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as the object of our scrutiny, but of ourselves as utterly dependent on his saving and merciful knowledge of us. It is in proportion, as we are known to him that we find our real being and identity in Christ. We know him in and through ourselves in so far as his truth is the source of our being and his merciful love is the very heart of our life and existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/588]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiscal policy is still too tight for current circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiscal policy is still too tight for current circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day in the bluest of summer weather, Sketching under a whispering oak,  I heard five bobolinks laughing together, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4418]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day in the bluest of summer weather, Sketching under a whispering oak,  I heard five bobolinks laughing together,   Over some ornithological joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not chose to be wrong for the sake of being different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not chose to be wrong for the sake of being different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44964</guid></item></channel></rss>