<?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[This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53112]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of others. [Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The self-same thing they will abhor. One way, and long another for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11]]></link><description><![CDATA[The self-same thing they will abhor. One way, and long another for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin,  And to the stack or the barn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8937]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin,  And to the stack or the barn door   Stoutly struts his dames before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54776]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9243]]></link><description><![CDATA[The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to balance three equal lines, and I think it worked pretty well. Carrollton-Farmers Branch is second in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36096]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to balance three equal lines, and I think it worked pretty well. Carrollton-Farmers Branch is second in the division (with 23 points) and we hung in the game until the third.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43871]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I bid her goe? what and if I doe? Shall I bid her goe and spare not?  Oh ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I bid her goe? what and if I doe? Shall I bid her goe and spare not?  Oh no, no, no, I dare not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still obviously closely monitoring this. At this point, we still don't know exactly what's going on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42352]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still obviously closely monitoring this. At this point, we still don't know exactly what's going on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the man of one book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the man of one book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Press bravely onward!--not in vain Your generous trust in human kind;  The good which bloodshed could not gain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Press bravely onward!--not in vain Your generous trust in human kind;  The good which bloodshed could not gain   Your peaceful zeal shall find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don't like you, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22303]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don't like you, there is still no shame. If you happen to be fond of someone, and they're not fond of you, it's OK.. You don't have to wait and see if they'll love you back. You can announce it.. Joy in life comes from expressing ourselves, in taking risks and jumping in. Everyone is not going to like you. But you can like who you like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe our disposition program is tracking well as we have a number of properties under contract or letter of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34058]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe our disposition program is tracking well as we have a number of properties under contract or letter of intent to sell at this time. The proceeds from these sales will provide us the opportunity to recycle capital and lessen our need to raise new equity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22904]]></link><description><![CDATA[The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a commencement requires a mental effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51203]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a commencement requires a mental effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.   - Charles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20036]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22560]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the supply is tighter for new product than it was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31634]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the supply is tighter for new product than it was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16750]]></link><description><![CDATA[No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16750</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[Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[because the hole is down in the ground, not up in the air. My father always told me, 'You ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35603]]></link><description><![CDATA[because the hole is down in the ground, not up in the air. My father always told me, 'You ought to play basketball, where the hole is way up there.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill agreement is better then a good judgement. [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49121]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill agreement is better then a good judgement. [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every good painter paints what he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every good painter paints what he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like a scorpion girt by fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like a scorpion girt by fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made a lot less mistakes, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28451]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made a lot less mistakes,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Momentum is building for smoke-free measures around the region. It's just a matter of time before there is statewide legislation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Momentum is building for smoke-free measures around the region. It's just a matter of time before there is statewide legislation to ban smoking in restaurants and bars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43727]]></link><description><![CDATA[To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give the laborer his wages before his perspiration be dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give the laborer his wages before his perspiration be dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study the past if you would divine the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study the past if you would divine the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me  A glorious court, where hourly I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4534]]></link><description><![CDATA[That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me  A glorious court, where hourly I converse   With the old sages and philosophers;    And sometimes, for variety, I confer     With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;      Calling their victories, if unjustly got,       Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,        Deface their ill-placed statues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are the only animals who eat themselves to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/743]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are the only animals who eat themselves to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't explain it, ... It's just happened for me while I'm here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't explain it, ... It's just happened for me while I'm here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new Bali attacks after the London attacks show the resiliency of terrorists to strike targets when our guard is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new Bali attacks after the London attacks show the resiliency of terrorists to strike targets when our guard is down,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["If you don't mind me asking," came the bell-like tones of the Golden Diana, "I'd like to know where you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44437]]></link><description><![CDATA["If you don't mind me asking," came the bell-like tones of the Golden Diana, "I'd like to know where you got that City Hall brogue. I did not know that Liberty was necessarily Irish." "If ye'd studied the history of art in its foreign complications, ye'd not need ask," replied Mrs. Liberty, "If ye wasn't so light and giddy ye'd know that I was made by a Dago and presented to the American people on behalf of the French Government for the purpose of welcomin' Irish immigrants into the Dutch city of New York. 'Tis that I've been doing night and day since I was erected."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She will be much better if she fights out of the country to get the feel of away matches and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40332]]></link><description><![CDATA[She will be much better if she fights out of the country to get the feel of away matches and even jeering from other fans,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard;  My lips are now forbid to speak  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard;  My lips are now forbid to speak   That once familiar word.   - Thomas Haynes Bayly,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get wealth and power, if possible by grace, If not, by any means, get wealth and place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get wealth and power, if possible by grace, If not, by any means, get wealth and place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why we recommend it daily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43245]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why we recommend it daily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. [Lat., Si quid dictum est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23238]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. [Lat., Si quid dictum est per jocum,  Non aequum est id te serio praevortier.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23238</guid></item></channel></rss>