<?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[Ethnic origin and religious beliefs are not so important criteria for the future premier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethnic origin and religious beliefs are not so important criteria for the future premier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then he danced;--all foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence  Of pantomime;--he danced, I say right well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11025]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then he danced;--all foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence  Of pantomime;--he danced, I say right well,   With emphasis, and also with good sense--    A thing in footing indispensable:     He danced without theatrical pretence,      Not like a ballet-master in the van       Of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest... And of what consequence is it what kind of death puts an end to life, since he who has died once is not forced to go through the same ordeal a second time? They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every woman there is a Queen. Speak to the Queen and the Queen will answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52708]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every woman there is a Queen. Speak to the Queen and the Queen will answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I always sang, I always used to listen to old Bessie Smith records, and Kate Smith. And Billie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29919]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I always sang, I always used to listen to old Bessie Smith records, and Kate Smith. And Billie Holiday. Before television when there was radio.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15839]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion of fear and pain will eventually make him sell badly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that there is consumer demand for energy efficient homes, these classes will give contractors the tools to meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that there is consumer demand for energy efficient homes, these classes will give contractors the tools to meet that demand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My first year at Salem State, 1998-99, I decided I needed to get used to my surroundings so I didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34332]]></link><description><![CDATA[My first year at Salem State, 1998-99, I decided I needed to get used to my surroundings so I didn't play basketball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stood Among them, but not of them: in a shroud  Of thoughts which were not their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59201]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stood Among them, but not of them: in a shroud  Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are cautiously investigating the deaths with murder, murder by contract and other possible charges in mind. I was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are cautiously investigating the deaths with murder, murder by contract and other possible charges in mind. I was the person in charge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36278]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from the smooth, homogeneous one of the Big Bang, dominated by gravitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct is untaught ability ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct is untaught ability]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation   God is always present, always available. At whatever moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation   God is always present, always available. At whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is authenticated, for it is God who gives our prayer its value and its character, not our interior dispositions, not our fervor, not our lucidity. The prayer which is pronounced for God and accepted by him becomes, by that very fact, a true prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16368]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's prudent to take every precaution you can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38753]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's prudent to take every precaution you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hener was the hero-king, Heaven-born, dear to us,  Showing his shield   A shelter for peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hener was the hero-king, Heaven-born, dear to us,  Showing his shield   A shelter for peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3120]]></link><description><![CDATA[The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lost out by a flip of the coin. This time that's not going to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28628]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lost out by a flip of the coin. This time that's not going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal,  And regards the quadrille ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11038]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal,  And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery   Than crushing His African children with slavery,    Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon     Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion,      Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows,       Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks, And through the opening door that time unlocks  Feel the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks, And through the opening door that time unlocks  Feel the fresh breathing of To-morrow creep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought (Scottsbluff) was getting used to the zone and we thought we could pressure their guards into turning it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32373]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought (Scottsbluff) was getting used to the zone and we thought we could pressure their guards into turning it over a little bit. We forced them to take some poor shots in the third quarter. That gave us an opportunity to get up the floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In discourse more sweet, (For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)  Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9924]]></link><description><![CDATA[In discourse more sweet, (For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)  Others apart sat on a hill retir'd,   In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high    Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will and Fate,     Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute;      And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, "Okay, as long as it's not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know." He stared telling hes story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought: "This story isn't too long." But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, "Uh-oh, this story is getting long." But then the story was over, and I said to myself: "You know, that story wasn't too long after all." I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows;  It comes, it grieves, it goes.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3555]]></link><description><![CDATA[A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows;  It comes, it grieves, it goes.   Once it rocked the summer rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47232]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word  Is Satisfaction: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54710]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word  Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go,   And pointed satire runs him through and through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smaller the mind the greater the conceit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smaller the mind the greater the conceit]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My home is not a place, it is people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65408]]></link><description><![CDATA[My home is not a place, it is people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34306]]></link><description><![CDATA[In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain,--  Let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain,--  Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,   Sermons and soda-water the day after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2242]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12029]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is justice with no mercy, Ira Flatowwill have to come back countless times asa lab rat for all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/257]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is justice with no mercy, Ira Flatowwill have to come back countless times asa lab rat for all the cruelty he has promoted on NPR.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53947]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9494]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9494</guid></item></channel></rss>