<?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[What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64507]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice; "only today I happen to have a headache." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10338]]></link><description><![CDATA["I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice; "only today I happen to have a headache."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40376]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64681]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55814]]></link><description><![CDATA[The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you perceive, your observations, feelings, interpretations, are all your truth. Your truth is important. Yet it is not The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59781]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you perceive, your observations, feelings, interpretations, are all your truth. Your truth is important. Yet it is not The Truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is high finance? It’s knowing the difference between one and ten, multiplying, subtracting and adding. You just add noughts. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15683]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is high finance? It’s knowing the difference between one and ten, multiplying, subtracting and adding. You just add noughts. It’s no more than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us ro see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unlived life is not worth examining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unlived life is not worth examining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft,  Without an inch of rigging on;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3629]]></link><description><![CDATA[There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft,  Without an inch of rigging on;   I looked and looked--and laughed.    It seemed so curious that she     Should cross the unknown water,      And moor herself within my room--       My daughter! O my daughter!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55949]]></link><description><![CDATA[His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61683]]></link><description><![CDATA[A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terrell's a good run blocker. He's very stout. He's very intelligent. He makes a lot of rookie mistakes right now, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terrell's a good run blocker. He's very stout. He's very intelligent. He makes a lot of rookie mistakes right now, which you would probably expect him to do. But he's getting more and more refined all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm afraid that it will fail miserably. Somehow, we have to promote this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41005]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm afraid that it will fail miserably. Somehow, we have to promote this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46343]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do our cats name us? My former husband swore that Humphrey and Dolly and Bean Blossom called me The Big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do our cats name us? My former husband swore that Humphrey and Dolly and Bean Blossom called me The Big Hamburger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38607]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really questioned whether I could in the beginning and now that I'm seeing results and have that support, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really questioned whether I could in the beginning and now that I'm seeing results and have that support, it makes me feel that much better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45737]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. [Fr., Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57341]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. [Fr., Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et rebutant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  Social enthusiasms have such power today, they raise people so effectively to the supreme degree of heroism in suffering and death, that I think it is as well that a few sheep should remain outside the fold in order to bear witness that the love of Christ is essentially something different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Man and the LionA man and a Lion traveled together through the forest. They soon began to boast of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Man and the LionA man and a Lion traveled together through the forest. They soon began to boast of their respective superiority to each other in strength and prowess. As they were disputing, they passed a statue carved in stone, which represented a Lion strangled by a Man. The traveler pointed to it and said: See there! How strong we are, and how we prevail over even the king of beasts. The Lion replied: This statue was made by one of you men. If we Lions knew how to erect statues, you would see the Man placed under the paw of the Lion. One story is good, till another is told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did not care a button for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51058]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did not care a button for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28757]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we end one of the most challenging years for the in-store rental industry, we are focused more than ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38631]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we end one of the most challenging years for the in-store rental industry, we are focused more than ever on the overall profitability of our business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23213]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time we made a run, they'd make a shot. It's disappointing to not come out and play hard from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time we made a run, they'd make a shot. It's disappointing to not come out and play hard from the start.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all they would forget. She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to be soft. She tells them of Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts. They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale, And in the distant ray what glimmering sail  Bends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56193]]></link><description><![CDATA[But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale, And in the distant ray what glimmering sail  Bends to the storm?--Now sinks the note of fear!   Ah! wretched mariners!--no more shall day    Unclose his cheering eye to light ye on your way!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24664]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27921]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15640]]></link><description><![CDATA[FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3666]]></link><description><![CDATA[A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment. [Lat., Res severa est verum gaudium.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13935]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment. [Lat., Res severa est verum gaudium.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. [Lat., Nam genus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. [Lat., Nam genus et proavos et quae non fecimus ipsi  Vix ea nostra voco.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49962]]></link><description><![CDATA[They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not like we're alone out there. There are really a lot of people doing this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33865]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not like we're alone out there. There are really a lot of people doing this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Election campaigns are allowed for all registered coalitions and political parties within the frame of the commission's regulations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Election campaigns are allowed for all registered coalitions and political parties within the frame of the commission's regulations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap,  Not difficult, if thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2336]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap,  Not difficult, if thou hearken to me;   Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand,    They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain,     While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher fuel and energy prices have hit purchasing power, amid a high inflation rate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Higher fuel and energy prices have hit purchasing power, amid a high inflation rate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is happening across the pages of almost every newspaper is a ruthless attempt to destroy the young challenger among ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36897]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is happening across the pages of almost every newspaper is a ruthless attempt to destroy the young challenger among the Tory modernizers' camp and to keep the Conservatives firmly on the right of British politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36897</guid></item></channel></rss>