<?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[For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20847]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21202]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a divorce and a legal separation is that a legal separation gives a husband time to hide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a divorce and a legal separation is that a legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts are hooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts are hooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7841]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight The selfsame way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55549]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight The selfsame way, with more advised watch, To find the other forth; and by adventuring both, I oft found both. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the sunset breezes shiver, And she's fading down the river,  But in England's song forever   She's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the sunset breezes shiver, And she's fading down the river,  But in England's song forever   She's the Fighting Temeraire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47746]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill wind that bloweth no man good-- The blower of which blast is she. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61647]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill wind that bloweth no man good-- The blower of which blast is she.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need loving the most when they deserve it the least ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46042]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need loving the most when they deserve it the least]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[One of Ms. Miller's lawyers, Floyd Abrams, wrote a letter to Mr. Libby's lawyer on Thursday in what he said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34946]]></link><description><![CDATA[[One of Ms. Miller's lawyers, Floyd Abrams, wrote a letter to Mr. Libby's lawyer on Thursday in what he said was an effort] to set the record straight. ... coerced and had been required as a condition for Mr. Libby's continued employment at the White House.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a health to you and yours who have done such things for us and ours. And when we and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a health to you and yours who have done such things for us and ours. And when we and ours have it in our powers to do for you and yours what you and yours have done for us and ours,  Then we and ours will do for you and yours what you and yours have done for us and ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Larger companies are doing well and are accordingly bidding up salaries in the hunt for talented workers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Larger companies are doing well and are accordingly bidding up salaries in the hunt for talented workers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52402]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51073]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take  Occasion by the hand, and make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57854]]></link><description><![CDATA[And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take  Occasion by the hand, and make   The bounds of freedom wider yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is hideously fragile [and] there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is hideously fragile [and] there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great wits and valours, like great states, Do sometimes sink with their own weights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great wits and valours, like great states, Do sometimes sink with their own weights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to show how over his head he is, ... We were always terrified of that scene. The audience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39260]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to show how over his head he is, ... We were always terrified of that scene. The audience is so uncomfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really hoping that everyone can stay healthy, ... because I feel that we have a team and a nucleus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really hoping that everyone can stay healthy, ... because I feel that we have a team and a nucleus that really can get us to where we want to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They ordered him to drop the knife, and he just kept backpedaling. Then he lunged at an officer, who had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32913]]></link><description><![CDATA[They ordered him to drop the knife, and he just kept backpedaling. Then he lunged at an officer, who had to step back to avoid being stabbed in the chest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always count the cost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always count the cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20522]]></link><description><![CDATA[He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[English attitudes to the respective forms of the game offer a clue as to why England continue to fare so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42552]]></link><description><![CDATA[English attitudes to the respective forms of the game offer a clue as to why England continue to fare so badly at One-day cricket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falstaff sweats to death, And lards the lean earth as he walks along. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falstaff sweats to death, And lards the lean earth as he walks along. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's mainly concerns about economic weakness all over the globe and what it will do to the U.S.. The common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42446]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's mainly concerns about economic weakness all over the globe and what it will do to the U.S.. The common refrain has been that the Asian crisis shouldn't have a big impact on the U.S. economy. Now with Russia's problems, people are reassessing that belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are not perfect (except when they smile). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65744]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are not perfect (except when they smile).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5475]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they avoid an area because of development, it's not usually a matter of them being able to go somewhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30977]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they avoid an area because of development, it's not usually a matter of them being able to go somewhere else, ... Eventually, we are going to lose that population.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3267]]></link><description><![CDATA[An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then should some cloud pass over The brow of sire or lover,  Think 'tis the shade   By ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then should some cloud pass over The brow of sire or lover,  Think 'tis the shade   By Victory made    Whose wings right o'er us hover!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are taking this weekend to sit down and rehash what needs to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41493]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are taking this weekend to sit down and rehash what needs to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That wasn't the end of it, either. This man and his lady friend, that I knew nothing about before this, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31246]]></link><description><![CDATA[That wasn't the end of it, either. This man and his lady friend, that I knew nothing about before this, came to the shelter and offered me a way out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60054]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60054</guid></item></channel></rss>