<?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[The London Stock Exchange is a critical piece on the chess board. So you have to put a big premium ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The London Stock Exchange is a critical piece on the chess board. So you have to put a big premium on the price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59015]]></link><description><![CDATA[When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That from small fires comes oft no small mishap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54049]]></link><description><![CDATA[That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not ent]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55858]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56425]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any points are good points. It's when we come away with nothing that's more disappointing. But we'll turn those threes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any points are good points. It's when we come away with nothing that's more disappointing. But we'll turn those threes into sevens and turn things around in a positive way. It's nothing we're dwelling on. But it's something we have to get turned around and fix as we move on with the season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the girls were more excited than she was. She was in a daze about the whole thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the girls were more excited than she was. She was in a daze about the whole thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. [Vulgate Lat., Pax huic domui.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45866]]></link><description><![CDATA[And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. [Vulgate Lat., Pax huic domui.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing begins, and nothing ends,  That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing begins, and nothing ends,  That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain  And perish in our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Puns are a form of humor with words.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Puns are a form of humor with words.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51514]]></link><description><![CDATA[When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand;  When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?   Untimely storms makes men expect a dearth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign. [Fr., Qui ne sait dissimuler, ne sait regner.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54482]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign. [Fr., Qui ne sait dissimuler, ne sait regner.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58888]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A host in himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19870]]></link><description><![CDATA[A host in himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55014]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59577]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dan drove like a champion today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dan drove like a champion today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52470]]></link><description><![CDATA[No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've invested a lot here, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've invested a lot here,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60156]]></link><description><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes no friends who never made a foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63527]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes no friends who never made a foe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is caught between good quarterly reports, such as the one from Disney, and the reality of company guidance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is caught between good quarterly reports, such as the one from Disney, and the reality of company guidance for future earnings that is far from stellar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12965]]></link><description><![CDATA[If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Felix will not pitch for Venezuela. We felt it best that given his youth and inexperience that it would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Felix will not pitch for Venezuela. We felt it best that given his youth and inexperience that it would be far better for him to be with our club in spring training.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47220]]></link><description><![CDATA[For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This could but have happened once, And we missed it, lost it forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45064]]></link><description><![CDATA[This could but have happened once, And we missed it, lost it forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can walk, you can run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13646]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can walk, you can run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  No one who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  No one who is fit to live need fear to die. Poor, timorous, faithless souls that we are! How we shall smile at our vain alarms, when the worst has happened! To us here, death is the most terrible word we know. But when we have tasted its reality, it will mean to us birth, deliverance, a new creation of ourselves. It will be what health is to the sick man. It will be what home is to the exile. It will be what the loved one given back is to the bereaved. As we draw near to it, a great solemn gladness should fill our hearts. It is God's great morning lighting up the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get tired of walking around San Francisco, you can always lean against it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8758]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get tired of walking around San Francisco, you can always lean against it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used it quite a bit today. It worked pretty good. I was happy with it. I threw it for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29932]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used it quite a bit today. It worked pretty good. I was happy with it. I threw it for my third strike for those first three batters I struck out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warm'd the politician,  Cur'd yesterday of my disease,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26711]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warm'd the politician,  Cur'd yesterday of my disease,   I died last night of my physician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41477]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we do here also affects the county -- and vice versa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37738]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we do here also affects the county -- and vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26412</guid></item></channel></rss>