<?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[A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33284]]></link><description><![CDATA[A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm saddest when I sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm saddest when I sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. [Lat., Prima ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. [Lat., Prima commendiato proficiscitur a modestia tum pietate in parentes, tum in suos benevolentia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vow is a snare for sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vow is a snare for sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24372]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30152]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the bottom line is every mayor wants to make their city safer, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33470]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the bottom line is every mayor wants to make their city safer,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54895]]></link><description><![CDATA[That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12933]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15656]]></link><description><![CDATA[What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the use of running when we are on the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62449]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65366]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you give up, think of the reason why you held on so long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you give up, think of the reason why you held on so long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Adam's fall-- We sinned all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56390]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Adam's fall-- We sinned all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Branford is a team that is trying to build. But we had some highlights. We had Alyssa back, and she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Branford is a team that is trying to build. But we had some highlights. We had Alyssa back, and she had her highest (all around) of the season. And this was just coming back from pneumonia. Heather had a flyaway half and her first 9.0 of the season (on bars). And Emily's vault, it was the second time she's stood it up this season. We decided to rest Kim and go without her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rarer sene, the lesse in mynde, The lesse in mynde, the lesser payne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56251]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rarer sene, the lesse in mynde, The lesse in mynde, the lesser payne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49352]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43795]]></link><description><![CDATA[See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We view this campaign more as a marathon than we do a sprint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39294]]></link><description><![CDATA[We view this campaign more as a marathon than we do a sprint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy and the FilbertsA boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy and the FilbertsA boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher. Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his disappointment. A bystander said to him, Be satisfied with half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand. Do not attempt too much at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous youth,  That blushed at its own praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48932]]></link><description><![CDATA[He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous youth,  That blushed at its own praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods only laugh when people ask them for money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods only laugh when people ask them for money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54911]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55155]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This issue has caused so much negative publicity. No matter which way the vote comes out, we are anxious to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37766]]></link><description><![CDATA[This issue has caused so much negative publicity. No matter which way the vote comes out, we are anxious to move forward with our image campaign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25811]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires.  God--and your native land! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires.  God--and your native land!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspending the operations of the PLO office is another message from Congress to the Palestinian people that it adopts the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspending the operations of the PLO office is another message from Congress to the Palestinian people that it adopts the position of the far right in Israel and this does not serve U.S. interests in the region.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2472]]></link><description><![CDATA[In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is never easy for those who dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is never easy for those who dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diego: I'm... sorry I set you up. Sid: Ah, you know me, I'm too lazy to hold a grudge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diego: I'm... sorry I set you up. Sid: Ah, you know me, I'm too lazy to hold a grudge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did a thing on Malcolm in the Middle which I loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did a thing on Malcolm in the Middle which I loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55208</guid></item></channel></rss>