<?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[Titles are marks of honest men, and wise: The fool or knave that wears a title lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Titles are marks of honest men, and wise: The fool or knave that wears a title lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16550]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,  Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18582]]></link><description><![CDATA[His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,  Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,   But strong for service still, and unimpair'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41684]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with the voices as a free obbligato above it, ... That just drives me crazy. I want the vocal line to be as much the core as the bass line. I want to create the illusion that the voice generates harmony, color, line, everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to have him back, but I am not optimistic. It could fall apart, but they are past ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to have him back, but I am not optimistic. It could fall apart, but they are past the money and now working on terms that are easier to resolve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case have a nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and the boy never need to understand anything; for 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness. Old folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them to be called mine, I will send you my verses gratis; if you wish them to be called yours, pray buy them, that they may be mine no longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that the cost savings available in the deal are very real, and the deal should be accretive to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that the cost savings available in the deal are very real, and the deal should be accretive to Fleet's earnings, which is good thing financially, but what the banking industry in general has to prove to the investment world is that they can cross-sell additional products to all of those retail and small business and commercial banking customers. If they show real revenue growth doing these types of cross-selling activities, then a deal like this really might be something to get excited about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are confident that we can penetrate any enemy defenses with our missiles. We know that we are more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11827]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are confident that we can penetrate any enemy defenses with our missiles. We know that we are more than the equal of any nation in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you produce the right people in the right volumes with the right skills in the right place at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33155]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you produce the right people in the right volumes with the right skills in the right place at the right time?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come,  And do not spread the compost on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come,  And do not spread the compost on the weeds   To make them ranker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a strong, good-sized kid. He doesn't come down easily. But we don't give him the ball a lot inside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31886]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a strong, good-sized kid. He doesn't come down easily. But we don't give him the ball a lot inside for 2-3 yard dive plays. We prefer giving him the ball off-tackle where he can get into the open field. Once he's in the clear, he's a vapor trail. He's gone. I don't remember seeing anybody who has caught him from behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled "wrong.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988   There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988   There are no crown wearers in heaven who were not cross bearers here below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it hit the civic center floor, water gushed out like a geyser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40506]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it hit the civic center floor, water gushed out like a geyser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8123]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of pleasure is a man of pains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45376]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of pleasure is a man of pains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20288]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50014]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19076]]></link><description><![CDATA[There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23974]]></link><description><![CDATA[For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Positive anything is better than negative nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Positive anything is better than negative nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voters can now check how many times Bush resorts to canned remarks, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Voters can now check how many times Bush resorts to canned remarks,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5996]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity.... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got the looks that we wanted. The shots didn't fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41771]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got the looks that we wanted. The shots didn't fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisest of the wise may err. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisest of the wise may err.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. [Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51654]]></link><description><![CDATA[The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. [Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12950]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57611]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   It is a rare campus indeed where the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   It is a rare campus indeed where the Christian universe of discourse is the shared basis of allegiance and the common currency of intellectual exchange. More likely, the Christian faith is an archaic facade, a bit of Victorian fretwork on the front of the house, of which polite note is made at Commencement, but not the common premise of teaching and research and learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did what pitchers do when they're successful. He moved the fastball in and out, he kept his pitches down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30461]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did what pitchers do when they're successful. He moved the fastball in and out, he kept his pitches down for the most part, and he got away with mistakes when they were up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66397]]></link><description><![CDATA[People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room  Piled high with cases in my father's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room  Piled high with cases in my father's name;   Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out    Among the giant fossils of my past,     Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs      Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there       At this or that box, pulling through the gap,        In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy,         The first book first. And how I felt it beat          Under my pillow, in the morning's dark,           An hour before the sun would let me read!            My books!             At last, because the time was ripe,              I chanced upon the poets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the denial of reality. - Dragons of Winter Night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the denial of reality. - Dragons of Winter Night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1693]]></link><description><![CDATA[African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  God is often faulted for creating a world full of suffering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  God is often faulted for creating a world full of suffering and evil. The issue is complex, both philosophically and theologically; but surely it is inappropriate to blame God for a problem He did not initiate, and [that is] in fact, one which He has sought to alleviate, at great cost to Himself. God sent His Son to inaugurate the Kingdom and to "destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil" (Heb. 2:14). God is not the cause of suffering and sickness; He is its cure! Jesus' ministry and death guarantee this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AVID changes how public schools teach. It provides struggling students, kids in the middle with intensive tutoring and shows them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40502]]></link><description><![CDATA[AVID changes how public schools teach. It provides struggling students, kids in the middle with intensive tutoring and shows them how to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40502</guid></item></channel></rss>