<?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[Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from us. But fairness and balance are possible. Not stereotyping people we write about is possible. We can be skeptical without being cynical,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are only as loyal as their options. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are only as loyal as their options.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46533]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a bondsman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51400]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a bondsman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46249]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got to really hear people's stories. People could share things with me in ways they didn't normally get to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got to really hear people's stories. People could share things with me in ways they didn't normally get to because people just didn't have time to sit with them for hours on end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But zeal moved thee; To please thy gods thou didst it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62628]]></link><description><![CDATA[But zeal moved thee; To please thy gods thou didst it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray,  Each in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray,  Each in the south melting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. -The Merchant of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was our season tonight. We had to lay it on the line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37607]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was our season tonight. We had to lay it on the line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45309]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river,  For men may come and men may go, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4927]]></link><description><![CDATA[I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river,  For men may come and men may go,   But I go on forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. [It., L'arte vostra quella, quanto puote,  Seque, come il maestro fa il discente;   Si che vostr'arte a Dio quasi e nipote.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite frankly, [the bid process] is as intense as any pursuit of a telecom contract I've ever been through representing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite frankly, [the bid process] is as intense as any pursuit of a telecom contract I've ever been through representing BellSouth,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't have my control. The sinker was going too wide. I wanted to keep the ball down, so if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't have my control. The sinker was going too wide. I wanted to keep the ball down, so if they made contact, they keep the ball in the ballpark. That lineup doesn't have any weak spots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25389]]></link><description><![CDATA[This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, youhave to take care of them! There is great freedom in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, youhave to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living.It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You go where you would normally go in your place of business, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31558]]></link><description><![CDATA[You go where you would normally go in your place of business,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People like port because it's got a really interesting flavour - it's rich. There are quite a lot of liqueurs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39990]]></link><description><![CDATA[People like port because it's got a really interesting flavour - it's rich. There are quite a lot of liqueurs with fruit flavours but nothing quite like port.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're an unselfish group willing to do whatever it takes to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33680]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're an unselfish group willing to do whatever it takes to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62124]]></link><description><![CDATA[And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame;  But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,   Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as They Are!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11186]]></link><description><![CDATA[To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have liked to have 12 points but we must learn our lessons. I don't think England are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have liked to have 12 points but we must learn our lessons. I don't think England are the best team in Europe but they are one of the best with three young forwards and a good defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had a turtle, a guinea pig, a dog, girlfriends, and many sweet, playful, sleepy, loving, delicious cats. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31163]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had a turtle, a guinea pig, a dog, girlfriends, and many sweet, playful, sleepy, loving, delicious cats. I love the way cats look at me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27337]]></link><description><![CDATA[And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome dutyinto an interesting opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome dutyinto an interesting opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are teenagers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are teenagers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man proposes, and God disposes. [It., Ordina l'uomo, e dio dispone.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man proposes, and God disposes. [It., Ordina l'uomo, e dio dispone.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inexperience can be used as an excuse or an opportunity. It is as an excuse that it is most often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inexperience can be used as an excuse or an opportunity. It is as an excuse that it is most often trotted out England's management ... India, throughout, this series, have used is as an opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear  The trumpet of contention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear  The trumpet of contention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   A man's personality actuates and quickens his whole body. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   A man's personality actuates and quickens his whole body. If anyone said it was unsuitable for the man's power to be in the toe, he would be thought silly, because, while granting that a man penetrates and actuates the whole of his body, he denied his presence in the part. Similarly, no one who admits the presence of the Word of God in the universe as a whole should think it unsuitable for a single human body to be by Him actuated and enlightened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rose-red city half as old as Time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8762]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rose-red city half as old as Time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emily had an awesome game. She knew that this was going to be her biggest challenge of the season so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Emily had an awesome game. She knew that this was going to be her biggest challenge of the season so far and I think she came through it very well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is a good servant but a bad master. [Fr., L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un mechant maitre." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is a good servant but a bad master. [Fr., L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un mechant maitre."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56768]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56768</guid></item></channel></rss>