<?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[Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communication works for those who work at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communication works for those who work at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV, ... We need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39587]]></link><description><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV, ... We need to give parents better tools. With 200 channels, I feel out of control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine But only hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19803</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[As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death,  The younger disease, that must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12494]]></link><description><![CDATA[As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death,  The younger disease, that must subdue at length,   Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You might point out to Howard Davies that he could get no better grounding in the game of hurling than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39814]]></link><description><![CDATA[You might point out to Howard Davies that he could get no better grounding in the game of hurling than to check out the Offaly Senior Hurling Championship Q/F featuring Birr against Lusmagh next Saturday evening, with the 'throw-in' at 4:30pm in Banagher. No prizes for guessing who you'll be shouting for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No life Can be pure in its purpose or strong in its strife  And all life not be purer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20867]]></link><description><![CDATA[No life Can be pure in its purpose or strong in its strife  And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit  Beneath my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3547]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit  Beneath my shady roof; there thou mayest rest   And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe,    And all the daughters of the year shall dance!     Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49387]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53474]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one really won in this constitution. It left almost everything vague. Everyone played to a tie but we don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38953]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one really won in this constitution. It left almost everything vague. Everyone played to a tie but we don't know how the ties are going to be resolved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10944]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64956]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll try anything that doesn't involve deep water, pain or Solaris 2.4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57113]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll try anything that doesn't involve deep water, pain or Solaris 2.4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy tidings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58621]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy tidings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want everybody out there, and we miss the guys who are out, but there's a mentality in the room ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40027]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want everybody out there, and we miss the guys who are out, but there's a mentality in the room where we're focused on what's in front of us. It's just something that builds over the course of the year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to the second or even the third rank. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2315]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to the second or even the third rank. [Lat., Prima enim sequentem, honestumn est in secundis, tertiisque consistere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52755]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diaulus, lately a doctor, is now an undertaker' what he does as an undertaker, he used to do also as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diaulus, lately a doctor, is now an undertaker' what he does as an undertaker, he used to do also as a doctor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22540]]></link><description><![CDATA[An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50271]]></link><description><![CDATA[In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're basically looking at a 21st-century fence, not a 19th-century fence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37279]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're basically looking at a 21st-century fence, not a 19th-century fence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's very serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40128]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's very serious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54696]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his will, is prayer in the deepest sense. This is essential prayer: uttered or unexpressed, it is equally prayer. It is the soul's desire after God going forth in a manifestation, ... the soul striving after God. This is a prayer that may exist without ceasing, consisting, as it does, not in doing or saying this or that, but in temper and attitude of the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. [Psalms 64:1]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. [Psalms 64:1].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really know him (Matthews). But from what I understand, he did a lot for Pensacola. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really know him (Matthews). But from what I understand, he did a lot for Pensacola.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he as studious--of his ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58038]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he as studious--of his ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I surprised by how slow he's moving? My basic answer is, yes. I knew he was not going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I surprised by how slow he's moving? My basic answer is, yes. I knew he was not going to turn the Earth on its head overnight. But given the vastness of his ambitions ... I would have expected in the first eight months he would be doing lots of things of consequence: more significant personnel moves, more significant documents, more serious public engagements, etc., etc.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another islisten to each other's stories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22439]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another islisten to each other's stories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then get thee gone and dig my grave thyself, And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear  That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then get thee gone and dig my grave thyself, And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear  That thou are crowned, not that I am dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44177</guid></item></channel></rss>