<?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[To a boyling pot flies comes not. [To a boiling pot flies come not.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16224]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a boyling pot flies comes not. [To a boiling pot flies come not.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are only as wise as others perceive you to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46095]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19697</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[Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22965]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. [Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. [Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act as if it were impossible to fail ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act as if it were impossible to fail]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be ready to play whether it's Monday or Saturday. We're still at home, so that's cool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39141]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be ready to play whether it's Monday or Saturday. We're still at home, so that's cool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What most people like is the three homemade soups every day. Chicken corn chowder, we can barely keep up with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38154]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most people like is the three homemade soups every day. Chicken corn chowder, we can barely keep up with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment giving and loving becomes more of an option than an obligation, you always tend to miss out on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment giving and loving becomes more of an option than an obligation, you always tend to miss out on the beautiful moments of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15725]]></link><description><![CDATA[What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to further those social institutions which enable people to continue and to enlarge the production of all those things which they need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  Gladly shall I come whenever bodily strength will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  Gladly shall I come whenever bodily strength will allow to join my testimony with yours in Olney pulpit, that God is love. As yet I have not recovered from the fatigues of my American expedition. My shattered bark is scarce worth docking any more. But I would fain wear, not rust, out. Oh! my dear Mr. Newton, indeed and indeed I am ashamed that I have done and suffered so little for Him that hath done and suffered so much for ill and hell-deserving me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you say it's okay to screen for gender, there's nothing that you can say that it's not okay to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you say it's okay to screen for gender, there's nothing that you can say that it's not okay to screen for ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â whether it's eye color, hair color, trivial issues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know I had to have myself checked regularly because I want to be healthy -- the older you get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40073]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know I had to have myself checked regularly because I want to be healthy -- the older you get the less you know what is inside your body. You have to be checked to make sure nothing is going wrong ... There is nothing to be afraid of. It's something that, if you catch it early enough, you can avoid more complicated problems in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can say we have the cake and now we're just missing the cherry on top. We're closer (to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31005]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can say we have the cake and now we're just missing the cherry on top. We're closer (to the final) than PSV, but we'll have to prepare very well for the return leg, seeing how tough they were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in the middle of the review process with the ULA deal. All of our attention is focused on that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37583]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in the middle of the review process with the ULA deal. All of our attention is focused on that at this time. It would be inappropriate for us to comment on Boeing's labor relations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My windows open to the autumn night, In vain I watched for sleep to visit me, How should sleep dull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7969]]></link><description><![CDATA[My windows open to the autumn night, In vain I watched for sleep to visit me, How should sleep dull mine ears, and dim my sight, Who saw the stars, and listened to the sea? Ah, how the City of our God is fair! If, without sea, and starless though it be, For joy of the majestic beauty there, Men shall not miss the stars, nor mourn the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think all great innovations are built on rejections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think all great innovations are built on rejections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61651]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes.  For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills,   And April's in the West wind, and daffodils.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They simply aren't meeting this week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40521]]></link><description><![CDATA[They simply aren't meeting this week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22204]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I think about all the men and women all over the world who have signed up for much longer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36787]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I think about all the men and women all over the world who have signed up for much longer than two years, this is the least I can do,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers. Some of it might not be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers. Some of it might not be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43365]]></link><description><![CDATA[It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to posterity. [Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu visit? Vixit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to posterity. [Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu visit? Vixit ad posteros.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too good for great things and too great for good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too good for great things and too great for good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the sheriff to come in and enforce the law, enforce speeds, it has to be legally posted, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37732]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the sheriff to come in and enforce the law, enforce speeds, it has to be legally posted, and the rules have to be met.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love. If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying peace, peace, where there is no peace; if I forget the poignant words, "Let love be without dissimulation" and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3680]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  The word religion is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  The word religion is extremely rare in the New Testament and the writings of mystics. The reason is simple. Those attitudes and practices to which we give the collective name of religion are themselves concerned with religion hardly at all. To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God. Therefore, almost by definition, a religious man, or a man when he is being religious, is not thinking about religion; he hasn't the time. Religion is what we (or he himself at a later moment) call his activity from outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5363]]></link><description><![CDATA[No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56269]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand, and itis fine," is the greatest understanding you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand, and itis fine," is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61571]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots of large commercial vendors are getting into this market, and they have not shown dedication to the standards-based approach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lots of large commercial vendors are getting into this market, and they have not shown dedication to the standards-based approach or to free access to the essential technology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64808]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diamonds continue to be Tiffany's strongest category around the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diamonds continue to be Tiffany's strongest category around the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43932]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4951]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We needed more shots to go in the basket in the first and second quarters. We had some good looks. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33964]]></link><description><![CDATA[We needed more shots to go in the basket in the first and second quarters. We had some good looks. We've been making them all year. The bottom line is when you get good looks against a good team, you have to knock them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11597</guid></item></channel></rss>