<?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 greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. -Aristotle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55246]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32666]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were clearly a better team with our injuries. With three weight classes out - you have a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30958]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were clearly a better team with our injuries. With three weight classes out - you have a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I purchased it with the thought that what better place to have it than at the school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I purchased it with the thought that what better place to have it than at the school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15808]]></link><description><![CDATA[If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the mantle of national interest is the last refuge of the economically dispossessed. In economic terms, pleading national interest is the declining cottage industry of those who have been bypassed by the global economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly invigorates it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One cost people don't factor in is that of a tried-and-true support mechanism. If [a Microsoft] product fails, we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31923]]></link><description><![CDATA[One cost people don't factor in is that of a tried-and-true support mechanism. If [a Microsoft] product fails, we have a single phone number we can call.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perversnes makes one squint ey'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perversnes makes one squint ey'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60078]]></link><description><![CDATA[An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have a strong mind and a soft heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have a strong mind and a soft heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been raising money to pay off the marquee and we've been raising money to pay off the buildings. Right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been raising money to pay off the marquee and we've been raising money to pay off the buildings. Right now, we've sent letters out to people asking for $1,000 donations to pay off the buildings. While trying to pay off the building, we've also been raising money to renovate the marquee. ... I'm hoping people will respond to the letters that we sent and at least send some money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half as sober as a judge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half as sober as a judge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54034]]></link><description><![CDATA[From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11197]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hippies are lots of fun, as long as they are not involved in commerce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hippies are lots of fun, as long as they are not involved in commerce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,  Catullus scarcely has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,  Catullus scarcely has a decent poem,   I don't think Sappho's Ode a good example,    Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn     Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample;      But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one       Being with "Formosum Pastor Corydon."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old father antic the law. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old father antic the law. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our hearts deceive us, because we leave them to themselves, are absent from them, taken up in outward rules and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our hearts deceive us, because we leave them to themselves, are absent from them, taken up in outward rules and forms of living and praying. But this kind of praying, which takes all its thoughts and words only from the state of our hearts, makes it impossible for us to be strangers to ourselves. The strength of every sin, the power of every evil temper, the most secret workings of our hearts, the weakness of any or all our virtues, is with a noonday clearness forced to be seen, as soon as the heart is made our prayer book, and we pray nothing, but according to what we read, and find there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, there was one fellow that wanted to give me a good swift kick in the rear end for not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, there was one fellow that wanted to give me a good swift kick in the rear end for not getting our work done,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody agrees that we have to fix these levees. But declaring a state of emergency an hour before a political ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody agrees that we have to fix these levees. But declaring a state of emergency an hour before a political convention smacks much more of politics than it does of leadership. The governor has had many opportunities to fund and fix these levees before, and he hasn't done it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True praise rootes and spreedes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50021]]></link><description><![CDATA[True praise rootes and spreedes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rich man's joke is always funny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20097]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rich man's joke is always funny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our players didn't come out and compete at all. It came down to leadership and we didn't show any. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our players didn't come out and compete at all. It came down to leadership and we didn't show any. It looked like our players were hiding and just gave up. Trust me, we will address this in practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44185]]></link><description><![CDATA[To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China will probably be the most important car market in the world within 5 to 10 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35190]]></link><description><![CDATA[China will probably be the most important car market in the world within 5 to 10 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long. (after his team had defeated Whitman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57636]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long. (after his team had defeated Whitman 70-30)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48332]]></link><description><![CDATA[I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! worse every day! this colony grows backward like the tail of a calf. [Lat., Heu quotidie pejus! haec colonia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! worse every day! this colony grows backward like the tail of a calf. [Lat., Heu quotidie pejus! haec colonia retroversus crescit tanquam coda vituli.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None is borne Master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49659]]></link><description><![CDATA[None is borne Master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intend some fear; Be not you spoke with but by mighty suit;  And look you get a prayer book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intend some fear; Be not you spoke with but by mighty suit;  And look you get a prayer book in your hand   And stand between two churchmen, good my lord,    For on that ground I'll make a holy descant;     And be not easily won to our requests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1214]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all need a break these days. So many people and businesses are still displaced because of Katrina so we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39618]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all need a break these days. So many people and businesses are still displaced because of Katrina so we didn't really want to push the fund-raising side of the event and wanted to present it more as a way to relieve stress. Walking is good for the heart and a great way to relieve stress, which everyone needs these days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still people are dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still people are dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11021]]></link><description><![CDATA[O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago;  The schoolmaster over the land is advancing,   Then why is the master of dancing so slow?    It is such a bore to be always caught tripping     In dull uniformity year after year;      Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping:       I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee will spend a whole yeares rent at one meales meate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee will spend a whole yeares rent at one meales meate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47678]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wages, benefits and pensions are not going to be as lucrative. We know that. But what they've put on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wages, benefits and pensions are not going to be as lucrative. We know that. But what they've put on the table is not acceptable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have people standing in line that want to be nurses. The problem is we don't have enough capacity in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40750]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have people standing in line that want to be nurses. The problem is we don't have enough capacity in our nursing schools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year we got a taste of it. The first game we played extremely well and the second game we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year we got a taste of it. The first game we played extremely well and the second game we didn't play our game. We're going to try to get to the Sweet 16 - that's our goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35243</guid></item></channel></rss>