<?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[It could have been broken, but luckily it turned out to only be a sprain. I got the boot off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could have been broken, but luckily it turned out to only be a sprain. I got the boot off and I've been riding a bike, lifting and doing treatment to get stronger. I have no clue when I'll be back but hopefully within the next two weeks. I just need time, then I need to get back into shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48688]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58127]]></link><description><![CDATA[A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the outside portrait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities -- that's huge progress. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42524]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities -- that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43516]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   The gaps in his education ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   The gaps in his education were of marvelous service to him. More learned, the formal logic of the schools would have robbed him of that flower of simplicity which is the great charm of his life; he would have seen the whole extent of the sore of the Church, and would no doubt have despaired of healing it. If he had known ecclesiastical discipline, he would have felt obliged to observe it; but, thanks to his ignorance, he could often violate it without knowing it, and be a heretic quite unawares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus gins arise,  His steeds to water at those springs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus gins arise,  His steeds to water at those springs   On chaliced flowers that lies;    And winking Mary-buds begin     To ope their golden eyes.      With every thing that pretty is,       My lady sweet, arise,        Arise, arise!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46808]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63132]]></link><description><![CDATA[True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police were told the group was armed and they had made political demands, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Police were told the group was armed and they had made political demands,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4753]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw young Harry with his visor up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw young Harry with his visor up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame? A fitful tongue of leaping flame;  A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame? A fitful tongue of leaping flame;  A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust,   That lifts a pinch of mortal dust;    A few swift years, and who can show     Which dust was Bill, and which was Joe?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest. - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20784]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. - You've Had Your Time, 1990.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Venice, Tass's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier;  Her palaces are crumbling to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60478]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Venice, Tass's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier;  Her palaces are crumbling to the shore,   And music meets not always now the ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36798</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[We are deceived by the semblance of what is just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50378]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are deceived by the semblance of what is just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slapped him in the mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slapped him in the mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the disease of one the whole flock perishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50441]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is something we knew was going to be ultimately decided by the Law Court. We're prepared to do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41997]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is something we knew was going to be ultimately decided by the Law Court. We're prepared to do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest: the sweet sauce of labor ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest: the sweet sauce of labor]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem  None rebels except subjects? The prince who   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem  None rebels except subjects? The prince who   Neglects or violates his trust is more    A brigand than the robber-chief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When's it going to get real? When are there going to be two sides? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40965]]></link><description><![CDATA[When's it going to get real? When are there going to be two sides?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation: Everyone's illusion of wealth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation: Everyone's illusion of wealth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proof of the pudding is in the eating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proof of the pudding is in the eating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50410]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26361]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That law provides for competition and allows local communities to have a say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39452]]></link><description><![CDATA[That law provides for competition and allows local communities to have a say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39452</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[The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He brings so much energy to the game, people can feed off that. A guy that has been out for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He brings so much energy to the game, people can feed off that. A guy that has been out for so long, that is hungry to get back in there, the adrenaline is contagious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Jesus'] life and utterance were the proclamation of this new order of things, of this new force by which man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6507]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Jesus'] life and utterance were the proclamation of this new order of things, of this new force by which man was to be ruled. When, unarmed and defenseless, He said to the Roman power, "My Kingdom is not of this world," He spoke the word of inauguration. Over the kingdom of the elemental forces, over the kingdom of the animal, over the kingdom of the intellect, He beheld rising, with Himself as prophet and embodiment, that kingdom of the spiritual whose forces should be those of purity and sacrifice, love and trust, obedience and service. It is the last of the kingdoms because it is the highest; it will be the most enduring for there is nothing that can take its place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52443]]></link><description><![CDATA[If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10707</guid></item></channel></rss>