<?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[At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be "Clark Kent, Dentist," because you could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11770]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be "Clark Kent, Dentist," because you could save money on tooth X-rays. But then I thought, if a patient said, "How's my back tooth?" and you just looked at it with your X-ray vision and said, "Oh it's okay," then the patient would probably say, "Aren't you going to take an X-ray, stupid?" and you'd say, "Aw fuck you, get outta here," and then he probably wouldn't even pay his bill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact the company will potentially or possibly include a sale in its bag of options makes it more formal. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact the company will potentially or possibly include a sale in its bag of options makes it more formal. I would think things would slow down here for awhile because Goldman is going to have to send some people out and put the numbers together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We might have gotten the win, but we ran out of tires near the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30213]]></link><description><![CDATA[We might have gotten the win, but we ran out of tires near the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59521]]></link><description><![CDATA[What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5039]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27145]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had a thousand major shareholders that I know would be selling stock because of portfolio diversification, I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37826]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had a thousand major shareholders that I know would be selling stock because of portfolio diversification, I would rather do a secondary offering than have them sell in dribs and drabs. It makes a lot of sense to do it in one fell swoop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63277]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27711]]></link><description><![CDATA[One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He smiles, and sleeps!--sleep on And smile, thou little, young inheritor  Of a world scarce less young: sleep on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3627]]></link><description><![CDATA[He smiles, and sleeps!--sleep on And smile, thou little, young inheritor  Of a world scarce less young: sleep on and smile!   Thine are the hours and days when both are cheering    And innocent!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it ... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61186]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going in and telling schools what to do is just going to make everybody mad and not get to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going in and telling schools what to do is just going to make everybody mad and not get to the goal,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This consolidation really started in the mid-1990s but picked up speed and is still continuing. In the last 15 years, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35889]]></link><description><![CDATA[This consolidation really started in the mid-1990s but picked up speed and is still continuing. In the last 15 years, about 150 companies have been acquired or merged. Most of the consolidation is confined to the top 10 builders, who are acquiring companies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[sex is simple, love stings afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55259]]></link><description><![CDATA[sex is simple, love stings afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We go out and do our best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29271]]></link><description><![CDATA[We go out and do our best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifeblood of our veins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My love for you
a yearling became
many eons ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25870]]></link><description><![CDATA[My love for you
a yearling became
many eons ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been an attitudinal shift in the railways. They are trying to respond to market needs, but there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31475]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been an attitudinal shift in the railways. They are trying to respond to market needs, but there is no denying the fact that the government of India is not able to invest in infrastructure in the way that China is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40674]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that feares death lives not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49336]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that feares death lives not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66378]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57469]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have very little fat on them and this was in October, at the time of year when we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42171]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have very little fat on them and this was in October, at the time of year when we would expect them to be almost at their maximum weight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was one of those who by fortune's boon Are born, as they say, with a silver spoon  In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50165]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was one of those who by fortune's boon Are born, as they say, with a silver spoon  In her mouth, not a wooden ladle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15795]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in the cultural field. By frustrating the scribe's craving for commanding action, the trader draws upon himself the scribe's wrath and scorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The business and industry environment during the quarter was generally favorable. Our sales results reflected stable trends across our product ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The business and industry environment during the quarter was generally favorable. Our sales results reflected stable trends across our product lines and a modest ramp in demand for fluid handling equipment through the quarter and into December.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9696]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death, the last sleep? No the final awakening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death, the last sleep? No the final awakening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, tarry a moment, my charming girl; Here is a jewel of gold and pearl;  A beautiful cross it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, tarry a moment, my charming girl; Here is a jewel of gold and pearl;  A beautiful cross it is I ween   As ever on beauty's breast was seen;    There's nothing at all but love to pay;     Take it and wear it, but only stay!      Ah! Sir Hunter, what excellent taste!       I'm not--in such--particular--haste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19844]]></link><description><![CDATA[A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52111]]></link><description><![CDATA[It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned monographs than by insights, broad impressions, and flashes of intuition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I could resist till I saw you; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53096]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I endeavored often "to reason against the reasons of my Love."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932   Now what ought to have been the attitude of thoughtful Christians towards ecclesiastical authority, resulting from our Lord's whole attitude towards it? I think that the Catholic Church ought to have maintained and used ecclesiastical and sacerdotal authority, but that its maintenance and its use ought to have been accompanied with a continual fear. Because they had before them this fact, that however divinely authoritative, however securely resting on a basis of legitimate and genuine inspiration, yet the ecclesiastical authority of the Old Covenant, by no process of sudden revolution, but simply by a process of gradual development, was capable of becoming something so utterly alien in spirit from what it was intended to be, that when the Christ came, to prepare for whom and to welcome whom was the one reason for which it existed, it did in fact reject Him utterly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8327]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19499</guid></item></channel></rss>