<?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[The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honesty to reporting.Thus, if a legend told of a notable hero that all men spoke of his prowess any bard who valued his life would hastily add except for a couple of people in his home village who thought he was a loony, and quite a lot of other people who had never really heard of him. Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like: His mighty steed was fast as the wind, on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three, any loose talk about a beloved having a face that could launch a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed own a very large seaport. Patrician Olaf II was eventually killed during an experiment conducted in the palace grounds to prove the disputed accuracy of the proverb The Pen is mightier than the Sword.In his memory it was decided that the proverb would from now on include the phrase: only if the Sword is very small and the Pen very sharp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4762]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not too stiff. I'll be at practice on Friday and I'll be ready to play on Sunday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32704]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not too stiff. I'll be at practice on Friday and I'll be ready to play on Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man would listen to you talk if he did not know that it was his turn next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25199]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man would listen to you talk if he did not know that it was his turn next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very tough to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30335]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very tough to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We own the intellectual property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33205]]></link><description><![CDATA[We own the intellectual property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends, He hurts me most who lavishly commends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends, He hurts me most who lavishly commends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But now will canker sorrow eat my bud And chase the native beauty from his cheek,  And he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26816]]></link><description><![CDATA[But now will canker sorrow eat my bud And chase the native beauty from his cheek,  And he will look as hollow as a ghost,   As dim and meagre as an ague's fit,    And so he'll die; and rising so again,     When I shall meet him in the court of heaven      I shall not know him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In doing nothing men learn to do evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48805]]></link><description><![CDATA[In doing nothing men learn to do evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morale is faith in the man at the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morale is faith in the man at the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth...never comes into the world but like a Bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth...never comes into the world but like a Bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prions are highly indestructible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prions are highly indestructible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. -PLOTINUS.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27145]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12262]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm pretty sure a lot of people look at Boise State winning this game, ... Everyone is looking at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35660]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm pretty sure a lot of people look at Boise State winning this game, ... Everyone is looking at the type of team they have and looking at the type of team they think we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45627]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I assumed there would be an influx of women on the podium, but there are not many more at my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41632]]></link><description><![CDATA[I assumed there would be an influx of women on the podium, but there are not many more at my level than there were 20 years ago. Maybe boards don't want to hire women because they don't meet the archetypal image of the maestro.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43902]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were expecting the free agency period to come and go. Negotiations were done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33932]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were expecting the free agency period to come and go. Negotiations were done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air;  Beyond my heart I need not reach  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air;  Beyond my heart I need not reach   When all is summer there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/461]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still fisheth he that catcheth one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still fisheth he that catcheth one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cynics are right nine times out of ten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cynics are right nine times out of ten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  Therefore Adam could have stood if he wished, seeing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  Therefore Adam could have stood if he wished, seeing that he fell solely by his own will. But it was because his will was capable of being bent to one side or the other, and was not given the constancy to persevere, that he fell so easily. Yet his choice of good and evil was free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris  Si scelus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris  Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2476]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson in grammar seems an impertinence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18134]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson in grammar seems an impertinence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our investigation found evidence that juveniles were routinely hit, shoved and slapped by staff, that juveniles were sprayed with pepper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our investigation found evidence that juveniles were routinely hit, shoved and slapped by staff, that juveniles were sprayed with pepper spray while in restraints,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. . -Martin Luther King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19816]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. . -Martin Luther King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can come to a decision that positively impacts all three of those then you've made the best decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33917]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can come to a decision that positively impacts all three of those then you've made the best decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citations are important and citations have their place, especially when people don't want to clean up their property. The officers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citations are important and citations have their place, especially when people don't want to clean up their property. The officers have no problem writing citations but ... you have to be careful not to take a snapshot two-second look at a property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy, like fire, soars upward. [Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy, like fire, soars upward. [Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefsprovide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything,including ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21370]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefsprovide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything,including those things that other people are certain are impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism, which can only be called "It.'' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5778]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism, which can only be called "It.'']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust,if thou seest dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21274]]></link><description><![CDATA[That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust,if thou seest dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever they recommend, he will do. Nobody ordered him to do it. He did it on his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever they recommend, he will do. Nobody ordered him to do it. He did it on his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything tothemselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21806]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything tothemselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In remembrance of Theresa Marie Schiavo: Issues of law and ethics, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41890]]></link><description><![CDATA[In remembrance of Theresa Marie Schiavo: Issues of law and ethics,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is neither wise nor brave to question God. It is the folly of a prideful heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13662]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is neither wise nor brave to question God. It is the folly of a prideful heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13662</guid></item></channel></rss>