<?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 all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15573]]></link><description><![CDATA[What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, and your choice of Scotch in bars--you would meet a beautiful, powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14108]]></link><description><![CDATA[A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were a little bummed the rest of that night. We kind of didn't know what to say. It's like, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29068]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were a little bummed the rest of that night. We kind of didn't know what to say. It's like, why Utah? Why does that always have to happen to us against them? But we kept our heads high, knowing we had the NCAA Tournament to look forward to. We realize that we're not done and we have a chance to play at least one game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingratitude is monstrous ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ingratitude is monstrous]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10815]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...we, the goths, do know how death, depression, despair, grief, misery and sorrow feels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17930]]></link><description><![CDATA[...we, the goths, do know how death, depression, despair, grief, misery and sorrow feels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither cast your pearls before swine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither cast your pearls before swine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're aware of it. There's no question after two seasons of 90-plus losses, fans don't necessarily feel that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31910]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're aware of it. There's no question after two seasons of 90-plus losses, fans don't necessarily feel that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms like a malcontent, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms like a malcontent, to relish a love-song like a robin-redbreast, to walk alone like one that had the pestilence, to sigh like a schoolboy that had lost his A B C, to weep like a young wench that had buried her grandam, to fast like one that takes diet, to watch like one that fears robbing, to speak puling like a beggar at Hallowmas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66653]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This just sort of adds insult to injury, in many respects, ... They're trying to get Pascagoula up and running, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37551]]></link><description><![CDATA[This just sort of adds insult to injury, in many respects, ... They're trying to get Pascagoula up and running, and then this gets whacked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot,  Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4341]]></link><description><![CDATA[These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot,  Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot,   Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear    Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year,     Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not      Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot       Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer        Right onward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm definitely excited. It's definitely a chance to get some revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30482]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm definitely excited. It's definitely a chance to get some revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away….]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I grabbed his arm and twisted it up behind his head and said 'Now who's asking the questions?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head t'wards me,  Guesse I may, what I must be:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10971]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head t'wards me,  Guesse I may, what I must be:   First, I shall decline my head;    Secondly, I shall be dead:     Lastly, safely buryed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was going to be somebody's day, and I knew that one of us was going to have that day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40270]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was going to be somebody's day, and I knew that one of us was going to have that day. We're all really strong riders and we're all really fit, but to have that podium ride or world championship everything has to come together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is going to be plenty of good digging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32520]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is going to be plenty of good digging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59579]]></link><description><![CDATA[One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the quest for an understanding of hair cells at a molecular level that drives our research. We would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41358]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the quest for an understanding of hair cells at a molecular level that drives our research. We would like to understand how hair cells work, why they are vulnerable and why in mammals hair cells do not regenerate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are always reinventing music, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41403]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are always reinventing music,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53345]]></link><description><![CDATA[We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us -- loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe -- yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to continue to work and focus on defense. We aren't being given much respect as a team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31609]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to continue to work and focus on defense. We aren't being given much respect as a team to go out and make a run at this, so we are anxious to prove that we are a force to be reckoned with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is very, very surprised -- Microsoft on their doorstep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is very, very surprised -- Microsoft on their doorstep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's errors are what make him amiable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14176]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's errors are what make him amiable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man doeswith that moment will be more important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22668]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man doeswith that moment will be more important than the events of the previousmillennia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of the day what seems to be going on here is that Paris is the only victim, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60555]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of the day what seems to be going on here is that Paris is the only victim, ... She's going to be stuck with the tab of repairing that car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60555</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[One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44735]]></link><description><![CDATA[One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be a huge political change within eight months and someone really huge is going to come in behind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32096]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be a huge political change within eight months and someone really huge is going to come in behind Stephen Harper in support of him and it will surprise Canadians. I had a dream a couple of years ago about Harper living at 24 Sussex and I still maintain that he's going to take the majority one day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When chickens quit quarrelling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52682]]></link><description><![CDATA[When chickens quit quarrelling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664  Continuing a short series on prayer:   All outward power that we exercise in the things about us is but a shadow in comparison of that inward power that resides in our will, imagination, and desires; these communicate with eternity and kindle a life which always reaches either Heaven or hell... Here lies the ground of the great efficacy of prayer, which when it is the prayer of the heart, the prayer of faith, has a kindling and creating power, and forms and transforms the soul into everything that the desire reaches after: it has the key to the Kingdom of Heaven and unlocks all its treasures; it opens, extends and moves that in us which has its being and motion in and with the divine nature. and so it brings us into real union and Communion with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one thing we learned in 2005 is there is no simple answer or smoking gun for this. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31901]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one thing we learned in 2005 is there is no simple answer or smoking gun for this. This is a tough problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48788]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings!  How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54514]]></link><description><![CDATA[For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings!  How some have been deposed, some slain in war,   Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,    Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed--     All murdered; for within the hollow crown      That rounds the mortal temples of a king       Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits,        Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp;         Allowing him a breath, a little scene,          To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks;           Infusing him with self and vain conceit,            As if this flesh which walls about our life             Were brass impregnable; and humored thus,              Comes at the last, and with a little pin               Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!                Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood                 With solemn reverence, Throw away respect,                  Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty;                   For you have but mistook me all this while.                    I live with bread like you, feel want, taste grief,                     Need friends. Subjected thus,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gray hair is God's graffiti. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gray hair is God's graffiti.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29116</guid></item></channel></rss>