<?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[One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25474]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet reluctant amorous delay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet reluctant amorous delay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go West, young man, and grow up with the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm from Missouri; you must show me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60013]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm from Missouri; you must show me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People should be very excited about what's going to happen, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33185]]></link><description><![CDATA[People should be very excited about what's going to happen,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness  And in the taste confounds the appetite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness  And in the taste confounds the appetite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40259]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52169]]></link><description><![CDATA[All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,  That fires the length of Ophiucus huge  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,  That fires the length of Ophiucus huge   In th' artic sky, and from his horrid hair    Shakes pestilence and war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi' favours secret, sweet and precious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi' favours secret, sweet and precious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42479]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, I say that justice is truth in action ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, I say that justice is truth in action]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gives them an incentive to market the film aggressively to their constituents. Then they can use the festival not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39224]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gives them an incentive to market the film aggressively to their constituents. Then they can use the festival not only as a promotional opportunity, but as a fundraising opportunity as well. Generating an audience has always been very difficult for film festivals, but this formula has been very successful. Generally, most of the screenings are sold out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you think of me is none of my business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22112]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you think of me is none of my business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.   - Matthew Prior, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.   - Matthew Prior,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had chances. Even at nine points we come out and throw the ball away three or four straight times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33764]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had chances. Even at nine points we come out and throw the ball away three or four straight times to start the third quarter. We just got into force mode a little early and when you don't take care of the basketball, nothing good is going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blue Order was very much chugging forward. The driving force of this whole effort was a content access effort and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blue Order was very much chugging forward. The driving force of this whole effort was a content access effort and now we have very much achieved the goal of making all content captured available to anybody in our facility on a PC.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1674]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43447]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is a strange thing. It makes a man swear to tell the truth, and every time he shows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is a strange thing. It makes a man swear to tell the truth, and every time he shows signs of doing so, some lawyer objects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a long lesson in humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a long lesson in humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51934]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor. [Lat., Mutos enim nasci, et egere omni ratione satius fuisset, quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new;  Ah! still awhile the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new;  Ah! still awhile the old thought retain,   And yet consider it again!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They didn't define what they were going to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37883]]></link><description><![CDATA[They didn't define what they were going to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50921]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael Apted is a true leader -- in this guild, in the industry and in his craft. His passion, diligence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Michael Apted is a true leader -- in this guild, in the industry and in his craft. His passion, diligence and integrity serve as an inspiration and a model for all our members.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43084]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14545]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of minor holes around the city, but nothing that's a major problem for people driving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33189]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of minor holes around the city, but nothing that's a major problem for people driving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heresie is the school of pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heresie is the school of pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind makes living contradictory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind makes living contradictory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19169]]></link><description><![CDATA[In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23571]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9304]]></link><description><![CDATA[People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48089</guid></item></channel></rss>