<?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 most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65513]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would die for my country . . . but I would not let my country die for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45834]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would die for my country . . . but I would not let my country die for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50706]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why photography is real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42427]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why photography is real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42510]]></link><description><![CDATA[She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57326]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By this I mean that a political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16450]]></link><description><![CDATA[By this I mean that a political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,  Writ in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,  Writ in remembrance more than things long past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire is what closes Saturday night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire is what closes Saturday night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2291]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44976]]></link><description><![CDATA[For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like this new law, because your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like this new law, because your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a method in man's wickedness: It grows up by degrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48616]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a method in man's wickedness: It grows up by degrees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting rid of a man without hurting his masculinity is a problem. 'Get out' and 'I never want to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting rid of a man without hurting his masculinity is a problem. 'Get out' and 'I never want to see you again' might sound like a challenge. If you want to get rid of a man, I suggest saying, 'I love you.... I want to marry you.... I want to have your children.' Sometimes they leave skid marks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18801]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all hearts. [It., Superbia, invidia ed avarizia sono  Le tre faville ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all hearts. [It., Superbia, invidia ed avarizia sono  Le tre faville che hanno i cori accesi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like not lady-slippers, Not yet the sweet-pea blossoms,  Not yet the flaky roses,   Red or white ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25077]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like not lady-slippers, Not yet the sweet-pea blossoms,  Not yet the flaky roses,   Red or white as snow;    I like the chaliced lilies,     The heavy Eastern lilies,      The gorgeous tiger-lilies,       That in our garden grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a time early on in the days of Danni's Hard Drive that we were within the top 10 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32617]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a time early on in the days of Danni's Hard Drive that we were within the top 10 Web sites in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reasons. (1) It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8543]]></link><description><![CDATA[One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reasons. (1) It raises scruples when we don't keep the routine. (2) It raises presumption when we do. Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real charity and faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish you every kind of prosperity, with a little more taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish you every kind of prosperity, with a little more taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13236]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A decent boldness ever meets with friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4468]]></link><description><![CDATA[A decent boldness ever meets with friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53378]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down. [on her reputation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4009]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down. [on her reputation for bad behavior].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  It must be our anxious care, whenever we are ourselves pressed, or see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  It must be our anxious care, whenever we are ourselves pressed, or see others pressed by any trial, instantly to have recourse to God. And again, in any prosperity of ourselves or others, we must not omit to testify our recognition of God's hand by praise and thanksgiving. Lastly, we must in all our prayers carefully avoid wishing to confine God to certain circumstances, or prescribe to him the time, place, or mode of action. In like manner, we are taught by [the Lord's] prayer not to fix any law or impose any condition upon him, but leave it entirely to him to adopt whatever course of procedure seems to him best, in respect of method, time, and place. For, before we offer up any petition for ourselves, we ask that his will may be done, and by so doing place our will in subordination to his, just as if we had laid a curb upon it, that, instead of presuming to give law to God, it may regard him as the ruler and disposer of all its wishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through her re-enactments of the stereotypical ways in which women and the female body have typically been depicted, she drew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through her re-enactments of the stereotypical ways in which women and the female body have typically been depicted, she drew attention to the power of media images to shape ideas of female identity,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is Venus personified. Her hair is naturally beautiful without artificial enhancement, and her sophisticated air tells us she has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32071]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is Venus personified. Her hair is naturally beautiful without artificial enhancement, and her sophisticated air tells us she has the queen gene. Gentlemen, start your engines; she's high-maintenance. She puts in the time to be gorgeous every day and is accustomed to lots of adoration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ground is shifting radically under the pressure of newly documented claims. While there may not be a single clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ground is shifting radically under the pressure of newly documented claims. While there may not be a single clear solution for every claim, institutions will need to be forthright in explaining future acquisitions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it so small a thing / To have enjoyed the sun, / To have lived light in the spring, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it so small a thing / To have enjoyed the sun, / To have lived light in the spring, / To have loved, to have thought, to have done?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No nation, no matter how enlightened, can endure criminal violence. If we cannot control it, we are admitting to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54286]]></link><description><![CDATA[No nation, no matter how enlightened, can endure criminal violence. If we cannot control it, we are admitting to the world and to ourselves that our laws are no more than a facade that crumbles when the winds of crisis rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In many respects, we're fighting the last intelligence war. We have not pursued data mining in the way we should. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38712]]></link><description><![CDATA[In many respects, we're fighting the last intelligence war. We have not pursued data mining in the way we should.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7663]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So so is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it is not; it is but so so. -As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55687]]></link><description><![CDATA[So so is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it is not; it is but so so. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5003</guid></item></channel></rss>