<?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[Aid the dawning, tongue and pen: Aid it, hopes of honest men! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aid the dawning, tongue and pen: Aid it, hopes of honest men!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone's jockeying to get a piece of what they hope is the big growth industry, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone's jockeying to get a piece of what they hope is the big growth industry,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the night shall be filled with music And the cares, that infest the day,  Shall fold their tents, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44530]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the night shall be filled with music And the cares, that infest the day,  Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,   And as silently steal away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much cooking is based on the season. We serve spring foods during that time of year, all served together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much cooking is based on the season. We serve spring foods during that time of year, all served together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to bother you guys with a meeting request, so I was hoping you could pass on to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to bother you guys with a meeting request, so I was hoping you could pass on to Karl that Interior is about to approve a gaming compact and land in trust for a tribe which is an anathema to all our supporters down there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25695]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin is geographical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin is geographical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are apt to overlook the hand and heart of God in our afflictions, and to consider them as mere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7613]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are apt to overlook the hand and heart of God in our afflictions, and to consider them as mere accidents, and unavoidable evils. This view makes them absolute and positive evils, which admit of no remedy or relief. If we view our troubles and trials aside from the divine design and agency in them, we cannot be comforted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  [The] doctrine of [inevitable] progress sustained our fathers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  [The] doctrine of [inevitable] progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. Its core was the conviction that, in thus extending the range of western liberal culture and developing its assumptions, they were in effect establishing on earth that which would grow into the kingdom of God. Some put it sharply but un-Biblically: "building the kingdom"; others, of a more secular turn of mind, echoed J. A. Symonds' hymn, "These Things Shall Be". That whole view exists today only as debris, for it has foundered on the rocks, not so much of human sin, as of the contradictions and complexities of the very western culture that was the substance of its belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From wonder into wonder existence opens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61954]]></link><description><![CDATA[From wonder into wonder existence opens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you shouldbe-because sooner or later, if you're posing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you shouldbe-because sooner or later, if you're posing, you will forget the pose andthen where are you?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hated it so much. I want to be out there all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32610]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hated it so much. I want to be out there all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil -- not because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8459]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil -- not because that is evil to which it turns, but because the turning itself is wicked. Therefore it is not an inferior thing which has made the will evil, but it is itself which has become so by wickedly and inordinately desiring an inferior thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to have a fast start, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32360]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to have a fast start,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66651]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be no talking about money because if she does that's all that's going to be talked about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37660]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be no talking about money because if she does that's all that's going to be talked about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12594]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43470]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, 'No.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42533]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one of those things that's not 100 percent of one or the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37828]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one of those things that's not 100 percent of one or the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11548]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Global Services division goes from strength to strength ... providing BT with diversification away from pure telecoms services that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Global Services division goes from strength to strength ... providing BT with diversification away from pure telecoms services that remain under intense pricing pressure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was a whole person. Then they cut the person open, and in him is a little baby shark. And in the baby shark there isn't a person, because it would be too small. But there's a little doll or something, like a Johnny Combat little toy guy---something like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford  Is spotless reputation. That away,   Man are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53894]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford  Is spotless reputation. That away,   Man are but gilded loam or painted clay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64626]]></link><description><![CDATA[As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and life are for to-day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and life are for to-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55117]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be done except little by little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be done except little by little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll moider da bum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll moider da bum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12432]]></link><description><![CDATA[All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/241]]></link><description><![CDATA[More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did a good job of working the counts and getting good pitches to hit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37288]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did a good job of working the counts and getting good pitches to hit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temper is a funny thing; it spoils children, ruins adults, and strengthens steel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temper is a funny thing; it spoils children, ruins adults, and strengthens steel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you have to do is watch the first minute and a half of the new season, and you know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31569]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you have to do is watch the first minute and a half of the new season, and you know there's no other show like it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1108]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is known by the silence he keeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66866]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is known by the silence he keeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lesser you hear that people say about you, the more you succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lesser you hear that people say about you, the more you succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5315</guid></item></channel></rss>