<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/904]]></link><description><![CDATA[The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Splitting up the portfolio is more than an accounting measure. I've handled cases where the portfolios were really diverse. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Splitting up the portfolio is more than an accounting measure. I've handled cases where the portfolios were really diverse. If I hadn't stepped in, the wife would have been stuck with capital gains that she had no clue about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what he has to prove, ... He's an everyday player, and they need to play him at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what he has to prove, ... He's an everyday player, and they need to play him at one position. Confidence is very important for him, and I think that would give him confidence. I don't know why they're waiting to make him an everyday guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've removed anything you can tie a rope to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41524]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've removed anything you can tie a rope to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52687]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words walked right out of my mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words walked right out of my mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence gives consent. [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence gives consent. [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46926]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44776]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of the plays in the first half are to see how they react to formations, motions, that kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38263]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of the plays in the first half are to see how they react to formations, motions, that kind of thing. A lot of the first half is trial, but that's no excuse for us not moving the ball. The plays are still supposed to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -- but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore, friends, As far as to the sepulchre of Christ--  Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore, friends, As far as to the sepulchre of Christ--  Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross   We are impressed and engaged to fight--    Fourthwith a power of English shall we levy,     Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb      To chase these pagans in those holy fields       Over whose acres walked those blessed feet        Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed         For our advantage on the bitter cross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.  . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61309]]></link><description><![CDATA[How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.  . . . .   The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,    The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey? And why does thy nose look so blue? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey? And why does thy nose look so blue?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately, the fragmentation is going to make it tougher for them [broadcasters] to hold on to their share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately, the fragmentation is going to make it tougher for them [broadcasters] to hold on to their share.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baloo, baloo, my wee, wee thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baloo, baloo, my wee, wee thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11369]]></link><description><![CDATA[The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/88]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/88</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall escape the uphill by never turning back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall escape the uphill by never turning back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time flies like an arrow.Fruit flies like a banana. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time flies like an arrow.Fruit flies like a banana.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling lies does not work in advertising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling lies does not work in advertising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With bated breath we offer wicked vows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50597]]></link><description><![CDATA[With bated breath we offer wicked vows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17503]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4397]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was extremely impressed with all the boys' performances. It was a great way to start off the year, winning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33362]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was extremely impressed with all the boys' performances. It was a great way to start off the year, winning six flights rather convincingly. Good performance by everyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25538]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see the same people almost every time. And then some nights we'll go on an off night and it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31093]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see the same people almost every time. And then some nights we'll go on an off night and it's a whole, entire different crowd. A lot of times it's according to the production. Some attract a younger group and some attract old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In today's competitive marketplace, you can't afford to be humble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33331]]></link><description><![CDATA[In today's competitive marketplace, you can't afford to be humble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food for powder, food for powder; they 'll fill a pit as well as better. -King Henry IV. Part I. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food for powder, food for powder; they 'll fill a pit as well as better. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10276]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16611]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not and should not be a target of terrorists but we are alert for any possibilities, ... We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28259]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not and should not be a target of terrorists but we are alert for any possibilities, ... We have not done anything to make people hate us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28259</guid></item></channel></rss>