<?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[Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're just making smart investments because they know people are coming. They have the money, and they saw a hot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31336]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're just making smart investments because they know people are coming. They have the money, and they saw a hot market, so it was easy for them to step in in a big way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine. [Lat., Millia frumenti tua triverit area centum.  Non tuus hinc capiet venter plus ac meus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65071]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aristocracy is in decline in the City, and the cloth-cap professionals are in the ascent. And we will take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3101]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aristocracy is in decline in the City, and the cloth-cap professionals are in the ascent. And we will take over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soft speeches of the wicked are full of deceit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soft speeches of the wicked are full of deceit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He asked me if we could please sit down and talk to each other, Nobody more than I wants this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40844]]></link><description><![CDATA[He asked me if we could please sit down and talk to each other, Nobody more than I wants this to be straightened out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34330]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart; but the saying is true, 'The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57299]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart; but the saying is true, 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44636]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders. I really do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28757]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All leaders strive to turn their followers into children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47596]]></link><description><![CDATA[All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54394]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe the custom of the place, if you would neither give offence to others, nor take offence from them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she didn't enjoy it, she would gauze it as her duty to do what she vowed to do,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  Though Christ a thousand times In Bethlehem be born, If he's not born in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  Though Christ a thousand times In Bethlehem be born, If he's not born in thee Thy soul is still forlorn. The cross on Golgotha Will never save thy soul; The cross in thy own heart Alone can make thee whole.   ... anonymous, 3rd century  December 29, 2002 Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170   The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Savior from hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,  To conquer France, his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,  To conquer France, his true inheritance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism. If you come near them and see what conceits they entertain--they are abstractionists, and spend their days and nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application, and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,--  Comes of the purple ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,--  Comes of the purple he from childhood wears,   Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great albatross!--the meanest birds Spring up and flit away,  While thou must toil to gain a flight,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great albatross!--the meanest birds Spring up and flit away,  While thou must toil to gain a flight,   And spread those pinions grey;    But when they once are fairly poised,     Far o'er each chirping thing      Thou sailest wide to other lands,       E'en sleeping on the wing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    The law of Christ, which it is our duty to fulfill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    The law of Christ, which it is our duty to fulfill, is the bearing of the cross. Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10010]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's as good of an outing as he's had all year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38208]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's as good of an outing as he's had all year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A worthless woman! mere cold clay As all false things are! but so fair,  She takes the breath of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61936]]></link><description><![CDATA[A worthless woman! mere cold clay As all false things are! but so fair,  She takes the breath of men away   Who gaze upon her unaware:    I would not play her larcenous tricks     To have her looks!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/845]]></link><description><![CDATA[People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16220]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and embalming of the body of any king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure we play rough, they said, but look what others do to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure we play rough, they said, but look what others do to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.   - Philip James Bailey, Festus ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.   - Philip James Bailey, Festus]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of forcing new, draconian vehicle emission standards on Oregonians, why not take the high road and encourage cleaner cars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of forcing new, draconian vehicle emission standards on Oregonians, why not take the high road and encourage cleaner cars and fuel? ... As chairman of the House Environment Committee, I heard from all sides of this debate. My conclusion: Incentives to reduce pollution are better than forcing motorists to live with a de facto car tax which won't make cleaner air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56480]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That men by reason will it calle may The daisie or elles the eye of day  The emperice, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10986]]></link><description><![CDATA[That men by reason will it calle may The daisie or elles the eye of day  The emperice, and floure of floures alle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost utmost reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That no Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55789]]></link><description><![CDATA[That no Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. "That was fun," I said. "You bet it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11691]]></link><description><![CDATA[I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. "That was fun," I said. "You bet it was," said Nick. "Let's climb higher." "No," I said. "I think we should be heading back now." "We have time," Nick insisted. I said we didn't, and Nick said we did. We argued back and forth like that for about 20 minutes, then finally decided to head back. I didn't say it was an interesting story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is annoying to be honest to no purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64572]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wrestled very well. We continued to show improvement. Zach Lopez has been using his practice time wisely and looked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38926]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wrestled very well. We continued to show improvement. Zach Lopez has been using his practice time wisely and looked much-improved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our ability to continue to increase market share for these new products has been one of the keys to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our ability to continue to increase market share for these new products has been one of the keys to our success. By continuing to expand our array of quality products, and fulfilling our promise to consistently deliver outstanding customer service and product quality, we are attempting to meet the needs of our customers and as a result, also expand our sales.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To many fame comes too late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19489]]></link><description><![CDATA[To many fame comes too late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42943]]></link><description><![CDATA[So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second disasterous. -Margot Fonteyn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just know this is the best job I've ever had because I have had so many other jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33691]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just know this is the best job I've ever had because I have had so many other jobs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who loves me will love my dog also. [Fr., Que me amat, amet et canem meum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who loves me will love my dog also. [Fr., Que me amat, amet et canem meum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't even know what street Canada is on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28134]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't even know what street Canada is on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28134</guid></item></channel></rss>