<?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[In fact, one thing that I have noticed...is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27852]]></link><description><![CDATA[In fact, one thing that I have noticed...is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly clever. I think you'll find the facts also work if you assume everyone is endlessly stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10236]]></link><description><![CDATA[There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16022]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man makes his own shipwreck. [Lat., Naufragium sibi quisque facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man makes his own shipwreck. [Lat., Naufragium sibi quisque facit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48073]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60753]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61774]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist He is my Altar, I His holy place; I am His guest, and He my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist He is my Altar, I His holy place; I am His guest, and He my living food; I'm His by penitence, He is mine by grace; I'm His by purchase, He is mine by blood; He's my supporting elm, and I His vine: Thus I my Best-beloved's am; thus He is mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't mind playing tough teams to start. This is only Game 1, and we still have a long way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't mind playing tough teams to start. This is only Game 1, and we still have a long way to go. We are going to evaluate our film and go from there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34757]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53112]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of others. [Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ISE could buy some of these traditional floor markets that have decent flow, like the Amex. Or it could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ISE could buy some of these traditional floor markets that have decent flow, like the Amex. Or it could be bought by one of the floor-based markets, or an equity market or a futures market, with a big market cap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We picked up at the start of the second half the way we finished the first. The Duke game was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We picked up at the start of the second half the way we finished the first. The Duke game was a tough loss. We know we could have won that game. All we could do was watch the tape of it and learn our lesson, not make the same mistakes again and that's what we did against Wake Forest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17489]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The O2 shareholders currently have a clean, simple cash deal on the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The O2 shareholders currently have a clean, simple cash deal on the table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death's pale flag advanced in his cheeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death's pale flag advanced in his cheeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay;  But in their books, as from their graves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay;  But in their books, as from their graves they rise.   Angels--that, side by side, upon our way,    Walk with and warn us!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They thought it was outrageous. Then they started looking into it themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32331]]></link><description><![CDATA[They thought it was outrageous. Then they started looking into it themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are their followers who do not believe in the direction of the peace talks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34270]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are their followers who do not believe in the direction of the peace talks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market has gone berserk. Forget about rational valuations, price-earning ratios and growth fundamentals, we have turned into a frenzied ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market has gone berserk. Forget about rational valuations, price-earning ratios and growth fundamentals, we have turned into a frenzied mob in front of a roulette wheel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As our case is new, we must think and act anew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64654]]></link><description><![CDATA[As our case is new, we must think and act anew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13201]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not chose to be wrong for the sake of being different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not chose to be wrong for the sake of being different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him, and then broke the mould.  [Fr., Non e ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26245]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him, and then broke the mould.  [Fr., Non e un si bello in tante altre persone,   Natura il fece, e poi roppa la stampa.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree  Of Prohibition, root ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16635]]></link><description><![CDATA[So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree  Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're playing it all over our radio stations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29820]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're playing it all over our radio stations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would I describe a preacher, . . . .  I would express him simple, grave, sincere;   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would I describe a preacher, . . . .  I would express him simple, grave, sincere;   In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain,    And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,     And natural in gesture; much impress'd      Himself, as conscious of his awful charge,       And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds        May feel it too; affectionate in look,         And tender in address, as well becomes          A messenger of grace to guilty men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14911]]></link><description><![CDATA[How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of kings is unsearchable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48666]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of kings is unsearchable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cities seldome change Religion only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cities seldome change Religion only.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon, Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea: Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, As 't were in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only if, for some reason, the government falls, there is an election and the Liberals win, Mr. Graham presumably would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only if, for some reason, the government falls, there is an election and the Liberals win, Mr. Graham presumably would lead them into an election should that be held.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This day was yesterday to-morrow nam'd: To-morrow shall be yesterday proclaimed:  To-morrow not yet come, not far away,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59463]]></link><description><![CDATA[This day was yesterday to-morrow nam'd: To-morrow shall be yesterday proclaimed:  To-morrow not yet come, not far away,   What shall to-morrow then be call'd? To-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was frustrating because I didn't know how he died. I felt it was a suspicious death, the way he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41893]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was frustrating because I didn't know how he died. I felt it was a suspicious death, the way he fell down. The TV in his room was knocked off its stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can think of maybe one and a half good chances we had tonight. I think that Kevin (Hartman) came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can think of maybe one and a half good chances we had tonight. I think that Kevin (Hartman) came up big to keep us in it. But it just wasn't good enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't care, your customer never will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't care, your customer never will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers. . . are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers. . . are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never takechances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never takechances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21978</guid></item></channel></rss>