<?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[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27245]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. -Mary Frances Berry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8330]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are continuing everything that Ray dreamed of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38049]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are continuing everything that Ray dreamed of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constancy is the foundation of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constancy is the foundation of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12585]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between style and fashion is quality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between style and fashion is quality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year. The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that's all I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year. The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that's all I can say, or the writers will kill me. They know where I live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/407]]></link><description><![CDATA[To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26151]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do believe that the fire began in an upper story, but it's too early for us to have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34394]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do believe that the fire began in an upper story, but it's too early for us to have a cause it's still under investigation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will draw the curtain and show you the picture. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55739]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will draw the curtain and show you the picture. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4454]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inquiry committee has ripped away the curtain, and shone a harsh light into the most unsightly corners of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inquiry committee has ripped away the curtain, and shone a harsh light into the most unsightly corners of the organization,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday I had no God but these, The sacerdotal trees, And they uplifted me,  "I hung upon a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday I had no God but these, The sacerdotal trees, And they uplifted me,  "I hung upon a Tree." The sun and moon I saw, And reverential awe Subdued me day and night,  "I am the perfect light." Within a lifeless stone -- All other gods unknown -- I sought Divinity,  "The Corner-stone am I." For sacrificial feast I slaughtered man and beast, Red recompense to gain.  "So I a Lamb was slain." "Yea, such My hungering Grace That whereso'er My face Is hidden, none may grope  Beyond eternal Hope.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He never, never worried about it. He seemed comfortable about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34914]]></link><description><![CDATA[He never, never worried about it. He seemed comfortable about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66426]]></link><description><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't know what the numbers were, but I knew I needed to hit some shots. Then I realized I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't know what the numbers were, but I knew I needed to hit some shots. Then I realized I was going off all by myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A maiden born when Autumn leaves Are rustling in September's breeze,  A Sapphire on her brow should bind,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23255]]></link><description><![CDATA[A maiden born when Autumn leaves Are rustling in September's breeze,  A Sapphire on her brow should bind,   'Twill cure diseases of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a Genius in all of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28734]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a Genius in all of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. -Lord Halifax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. -Lord Halifax.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603   [He said:] that our sanctification did not depend upon our changing our works, but upon our doing that for God' s sake which commonly we do for our own; that it was lamentable to see how many people mistook the means for the end, addicting themselves to certain works, which they performed very imperfectly, by reason of their human or selfish regards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say "hullo."  Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19951]]></link><description><![CDATA[W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say "hullo."  Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do,"   "How's the world a-usin' you?"    . . . .     W'en you travel through the strange      Country t'other side the range,       Then the souls you've cheered will know        Who you be, an' say "hullo."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on.  We by to-morrow draw out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on.  We by to-morrow draw out all our store,   Till the exhausted well can yield no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53293]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In discourse more sweet, (For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)  Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9924]]></link><description><![CDATA[In discourse more sweet, (For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)  Others apart sat on a hill retir'd,   In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high    Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will and Fate,     Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute;      And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever excused his way to success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14467]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever excused his way to success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A SOBA is a client/server application done right, ... It is a business application that is centered on Web services ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31351]]></link><description><![CDATA[A SOBA is a client/server application done right, ... It is a business application that is centered on Web services standards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speake fitly, or be silent wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never repent of having eaten too little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65357]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never repent of having eaten too little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, simpleton, do you mix your verses with mine? What have you to do, foolish man, with writings that convict ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, simpleton, do you mix your verses with mine? What have you to do, foolish man, with writings that convict you of theft? Why do you attempt to associate foxes with lions, and make owls pass for eagles? Though you had one of Ladas's legs, you would not be able, blockhead, to run with the other leg of wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet shadows of twilight! how calm their repose, While the dewdrops fall soft in the breast of the rose!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet shadows of twilight! how calm their repose, While the dewdrops fall soft in the breast of the rose!  How blest to the toiler his hour of release   When the vesper is heard with its whisper of peace!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62459]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theory: A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theory: A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good land, evill way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good land, evill way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a teenager, I dreamed abbout escaping. I was lucky. I succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40524]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a teenager, I dreamed abbout escaping. I was lucky. I succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you."   - Iphicrates, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2495]]></link><description><![CDATA["My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you."   - Iphicrates,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1401]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are going to have a functioning and healthy democratic society, we need to be open to civil discourse. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35840]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are going to have a functioning and healthy democratic society, we need to be open to civil discourse. In other words, we have to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34874</guid></item></channel></rss>