<?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[But I do hate him as I hate the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18856]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I do hate him as I hate the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9524]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. -King Henry IV. Part II. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55938]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52861]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what everybody in the country wants to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34082]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what everybody in the country wants to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are absolutely delighted with the settlement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42407]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are absolutely delighted with the settlement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the sin which is not Sin in itself? Can circumstance make sin  Or virtue? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48780]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the sin which is not Sin in itself? Can circumstance make sin  Or virtue?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Mountains Are Gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31150]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Mountains Are Gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62526</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[It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10631]]></link><description><![CDATA[It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19488]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20553]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46822]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was the guy I looked up to, that I wanted to be like, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30254]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was the guy I looked up to, that I wanted to be like,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People may be worshiping in a group of 5000 or 10,000. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33909]]></link><description><![CDATA[People may be worshiping in a group of 5000 or 10,000.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44812]]></link><description><![CDATA[OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly. A devil thrown out of a woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird. A chaplain in Cromwell's army exorcised a soldier's obsessing devil by throwing the soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface. The soldier, unfortunately, did not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're ecstatic that we got things off the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33458]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're ecstatic that we got things off the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is obviously the most thorny problem. The situation is still brittle, even though the Gate Gourmet dispute is nearly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31738]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is obviously the most thorny problem. The situation is still brittle, even though the Gate Gourmet dispute is nearly over and BA is back working. There remains the possibility things will erupt again,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The head never rules the heart but just becomes its partner in crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The head never rules the heart but just becomes its partner in crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child of misery, baptized in tears! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child of misery, baptized in tears!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66604]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon."N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon."N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire. - Pensees d'Aout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove?  Admires the jay the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove?  Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings?   Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With new broadband video outlets dramatically changing the entertainment and communications markets, the Telecom NEXT exhibit floor brings content providers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38337]]></link><description><![CDATA[With new broadband video outlets dramatically changing the entertainment and communications markets, the Telecom NEXT exhibit floor brings content providers and the newest video solutions together to help network service providers make critical purchasing decisions for deploying voice, video and data services over next-generation networks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2952]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to play catch, and we have been. I don't think we have had an error so far in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32482]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to play catch, and we have been. I don't think we have had an error so far in league.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At some point the army is going to react and then the LTTE will retaliate. They have set in motion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36731]]></link><description><![CDATA[At some point the army is going to react and then the LTTE will retaliate. They have set in motion a process. At some point the bubble is bound to burst and then we do not know what will happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute shall? -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute shall? -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching Independence Day with President ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching Independence Day with President Clinton]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can really make jelly out of anything if you have enough sugar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39273]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can really make jelly out of anything if you have enough sugar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to pay a monthly subscription. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28908]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to pay a monthly subscription.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amiable weakness of human nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amiable weakness of human nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who track the steps of Glory to the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who track the steps of Glory to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15882]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53208</guid></item></channel></rss>