<?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[Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand!  Amidst their tall ancestral trees,   O'er all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand!  Amidst their tall ancestral trees,   O'er all the pleasant land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little experience often upsets a lot of theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/818]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44730]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you done it, it ain't bragging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4824]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you done it, it ain't bragging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63473]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Islamic world took a real beating because of what the clerics did in northern Nigeria, ... Islamic countries should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Islamic world took a real beating because of what the clerics did in northern Nigeria, ... Islamic countries should be praised for doing so much to bring the spread of polio back under control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. [Lat., Fundamenta ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. [Lat., Fundamenta justitiae sunt, ut ne cui noceatur, deinde ut communi utilitati serviatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were computer programmer, I do black box and white box testing before the applications launched ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30136]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were computer programmer, I do black box and white box testing before the applications launched]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One stroke fells not an oke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49699]]></link><description><![CDATA[One stroke fells not an oke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.   - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23925]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.   - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19511]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're getting a little out of hand, a little ridiculous. I still like a couple of them, but it gets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29454]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're getting a little out of hand, a little ridiculous. I still like a couple of them, but it gets old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One hand washeth another, and both the face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49693]]></link><description><![CDATA[One hand washeth another, and both the face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; It is this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks to Tony, he didn't give us much time to think about that shot. I thought we never lost control ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks to Tony, he didn't give us much time to think about that shot. I thought we never lost control of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tempo was exactly where we wanted it. I think a few people were getting nervous, but we were doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tempo was exactly where we wanted it. I think a few people were getting nervous, but we were doing exactly what we wanted. I knew that we would be alright and the goals would come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links  Both Goddesses and Gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links  Both Goddesses and Gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That 's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55961]]></link><description><![CDATA[That 's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62311]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too;  For no form of a god, and no fashion   Man has made in his desperate passion,    But is worthy some worship of mine;     Not too hot with a gross belief,      Nor yet too cold with pride,       I will bow me down where my brothers bow,        Humble, but open eyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't defame someone, or just walk naked on the streets because freedom of expression has limits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36644]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't defame someone, or just walk naked on the streets because freedom of expression has limits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23623]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57012]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set the above their betters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While top and bottom-line results did not meet our expectations for the quarter, we remain optimistic about our prospects for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40469]]></link><description><![CDATA[While top and bottom-line results did not meet our expectations for the quarter, we remain optimistic about our prospects for growth in the future. We remain committed to profitability, excluding non-cash charges, no later than the end of calendar 2001 and we anticipate revenue for fiscal 2001 to be approximately 2.25 times fiscal 2000 revenue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is never finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is never finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13435]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us;  The Bust out-lasts the throne,--   The coin, Tiberius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3177]]></link><description><![CDATA[All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us;  The Bust out-lasts the throne,--   The coin, Tiberius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66587]]></link><description><![CDATA[My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep down, I'm pretty superficial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My security team monitors just about everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34180]]></link><description><![CDATA[My security team monitors just about everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63402]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20843]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nate senses when we're in danger. He had some big drives and foul shots down the stretch and really takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nate senses when we're in danger. He had some big drives and foul shots down the stretch and really takes it over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280 JESUS, the infinite I AM, With God essentially the same, With him enthroned above all height, As God of God, and Light of Light, Thou art by thy great Father known, From all eternity his Son. Thou only dost the Father know, And wilt to all thy followers show, Who cannot doubt thy gracious will His glorious Godhead to reveal; Reveal him now, if thou art he, And live, eternal Life, in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25416]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we found was age was a significant predictor in Bt corn adoption. We found as producers get older and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32137]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we found was age was a significant predictor in Bt corn adoption. We found as producers get older and gain experience they are more likely to adopt Bt corn rootworm, but once they reach about age 48 they become less likely to adopt the technology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hitting rock bottom theory is all very well. But it is probably possible to intervene earlier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hitting rock bottom theory is all very well. But it is probably possible to intervene earlier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42481</guid></item></channel></rss>