<?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[Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would bee at ease, all the world is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49524]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46487]]></link><description><![CDATA[O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A theory must be tempered with reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53063]]></link><description><![CDATA[A theory must be tempered with reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10753]]></link><description><![CDATA[People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often wish ... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14899]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often wish ... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fast bind, fast find-- A proverb never stale in thrifty mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fast bind, fast find-- A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once again the stock market will be the loser, especially as it already had tax disincentives compared to other countries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once again the stock market will be the loser, especially as it already had tax disincentives compared to other countries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8783]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47589]]></link><description><![CDATA[To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wicked flee when no man pursueth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wicked flee when no man pursueth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53391]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5932]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Paint me as I am," said Cromwell, "Rough with age and gashed with wars;  Show my visage as you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45418]]></link><description><![CDATA["Paint me as I am," said Cromwell, "Rough with age and gashed with wars;  Show my visage as you find it,   Less than truth my soul abhors."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Willful waste brings woeful want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Willful waste brings woeful want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's looking for some meaningful penetration into the backline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57664]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's looking for some meaningful penetration into the backline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United States was foundedby the violent overthrowof a violently founded throne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The United States was foundedby the violent overthrowof a violently founded throne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without the courage for death is slavery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without the courage for death is slavery]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage;  And if I chance to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45234]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage;  And if I chance to fall below   Demosthenes or Cicero,    Don't view me with a critic's eye,     But pass my imperfections by.      Large streams from little fountains flow,       Tall oaks from little acorns grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,  A woman sat in unwomanly rags,   Plying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23941]]></link><description><![CDATA[With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,  A woman sat in unwomanly rags,   Plying her needle and thread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the world -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28233]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the world -- he also has a political agenda, he is using this terrorism for political ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Banner advertising for us is extremely important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Banner advertising for us is extremely important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This sets the stage for some very, very interesting hearings next week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39732]]></link><description><![CDATA[This sets the stage for some very, very interesting hearings next week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34709]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that lives to forever, never fears dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11220]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that lives to forever, never fears dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a genius when he is dreaming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a genius when he is dreaming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12020]]></link><description><![CDATA[No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brandywine's a good team. They have a real good player in [5-foot-9 sophomore] Michelle Baker and it'll be a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brandywine's a good team. They have a real good player in [5-foot-9 sophomore] Michelle Baker and it'll be a good test to see how we respond, and see if we can beat them for a third time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22128]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. - 1963.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52260]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the marketplace and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word to the wise is infuriating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word to the wise is infuriating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want him to think hitting is OK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want him to think hitting is OK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29156</guid></item></channel></rss>