<?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[There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54062]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16993]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Katherine Mansfield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's an expectation built into Nortel's valuation for the company to outperform relative to expectation and with all of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31761]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's an expectation built into Nortel's valuation for the company to outperform relative to expectation and with all of the indications prior to the call that the demand for optical remained quite strong, especially with service providers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that commitment, ... That is a commitment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39311]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that commitment, ... That is a commitment not just to this community but a commitment to the American spirit. This is what living in America is all about and why we live here. And I want to tell you that will be just as important as any assistance we get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In durance vile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48262]]></link><description><![CDATA[In durance vile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making copies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making copies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44786]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My biggest concern is coming out of my home every day and thinking there are thousands of dead bodies. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42271]]></link><description><![CDATA[My biggest concern is coming out of my home every day and thinking there are thousands of dead bodies. It's like a bad video game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's trying to figure out what those guys knew - and how she can get out of it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32055]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's trying to figure out what those guys knew - and how she can get out of it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He managed to hit all the keys on the great American political piano. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23694]]></link><description><![CDATA[He managed to hit all the keys on the great American political piano.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7867]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had taken refuge from that place,   And not with Thee. For we against creation's bars had beat   Like prisoned eagles, through great worlds had sought Though but a foot of ground to plant our feet,   Where Thou wert not. And only when we found in earth and air,   In heaven or hell, that such might nowhere be That we could not flee from Thee anywhere,   We fled to Thee.  ... Richard Chevenix Trench  April 8, 2000 Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  It is the recognition of this divine necessity -- not to forgive, but to forgive in a way which shows that God is irreconcilable to evil, and can never treat it as other or less than it is -- it is the recognition of this divine necessity, or the failure to recognise it, which ultimately divides interpreters of Christianity into evangelical and non-evangelical, those who are true to the New Testament and those who cannot digest it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63764]]></link><description><![CDATA[A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Rogue that I am," he whispers to himself, "I lie, I cheat--do anything for pelf,  But who on earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50164]]></link><description><![CDATA["Rogue that I am," he whispers to himself, "I lie, I cheat--do anything for pelf,  But who on earth can say I am not pious?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To feed were best at home; From thence, the sauce is meat to ceremony:  Meeting were bare without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5447]]></link><description><![CDATA[To feed were best at home; From thence, the sauce is meat to ceremony:  Meeting were bare without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four;  Stella's wit is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four;  Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face,   She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -Oliver Wendell Holmes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25191]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -Oliver Wendell Holmes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12831]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25703]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44222]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weren't the last drop in the well, As I gasp'd upon the brink,  Ere my fainting spirit fell,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weren't the last drop in the well, As I gasp'd upon the brink,  Ere my fainting spirit fell,   'Tis to thee that I would drink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41600]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59875]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14806]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58312]]></link><description><![CDATA[True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way Maine?s working families can afford this rate hike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40279]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way Maine?s working families can afford this rate hike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions--bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48120]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions--bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Beat That My Heart Skipped, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Beat That My Heart Skipped,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O world, how apt the poor are to be proud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48211]]></link><description><![CDATA[O world, how apt the poor are to be proud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A more open Chinese market will help create the world's largest market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A more open Chinese market will help create the world's largest market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes,--rather plunge me back in pagan night, And take my chance with Socrates for bliss,  Than be the Christian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes,--rather plunge me back in pagan night, And take my chance with Socrates for bliss,  Than be the Christian of a faith like this,   Which builds on heavenly cant its earthly sway,    And in a convert mourns to lose a prey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25019]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1011]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27646]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes me happy. It makes coach happy. Most importantly, it makes them happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes me happy. It makes coach happy. Most importantly, it makes them happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three years ago, the hand of terrorism claimed the lives of thousands of innocent people at the World Trade Center ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three years ago, the hand of terrorism claimed the lives of thousands of innocent people at the World Trade Center in New York. Terrorism did not stop at its mean act but further wreaked havoc in several spots of the world, with no discrimination between one religion and another and one people and another,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20108]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have taken all knowledge to be my province. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have taken all knowledge to be my province.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16219]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. [Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare columbas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12807]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. [Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare columbas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12807</guid></item></channel></rss>