<?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[Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the twentieth year of the reign of the right high and puissant King Henry the Eighth, namely, in 1529, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4631]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the twentieth year of the reign of the right high and puissant King Henry the Eighth, namely, in 1529, on the twenty-first of April, and on one of the loveliest evenings that ever fell on the loveliest district in England, a fair youth, having somewhat the appearance of a page, was leaning over the terrace-wall on the north side of Windsor Castle, and gazing at the magnificent scene before him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue,  Whereon our little bark had thrown   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54940]]></link><description><![CDATA[How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue,  Whereon our little bark had thrown   A little shade, the only one;    But shadows ever man pursue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[an unmistakable confirmation that there is in this country the emergence of a new political culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37528]]></link><description><![CDATA[an unmistakable confirmation that there is in this country the emergence of a new political culture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The despair is so deep. This is truly a catastrophe of epic proportions for our country. And now they're in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The despair is so deep. This is truly a catastrophe of epic proportions for our country. And now they're in our backyard, and we need to help them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is engendered in the eyes; By gazing fed; and fancy dies  In the cradle where it lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51411]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is engendered in the eyes; By gazing fed; and fancy dies  In the cradle where it lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our envy of others devours us most of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our envy of others devours us most of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Old Testament, we find the idea that God enters into the sufferings of His people. "In all their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6639]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the Old Testament, we find the idea that God enters into the sufferings of His people. "In all their afflictions, He was afflicted." The relation of God to the woes of the world is not that of a mere spectator. The New Testament goes further, and says that God is love. But that is not love which, in the presence of acute suffering, can stand outside and aloof. The doctrine that Christ is the image of the unseen God means that God does not stand outside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The skips (elevators) that once lifted about 4 tons of salt to the surface were eventually replaced with hydraulic hoists ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The skips (elevators) that once lifted about 4 tons of salt to the surface were eventually replaced with hydraulic hoists that can bring up as much as 19 tons,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56482]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5759]]></link><description><![CDATA["Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Andy didn't have his best stuff. Certainly the Pirates hitters battled with every single pitch. Whether it was to foul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Andy didn't have his best stuff. Certainly the Pirates hitters battled with every single pitch. Whether it was to foul it off or take a ball, nothing came easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The role of research has always been to do the groundbreaking work and, as part of IBM, to transfer the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The role of research has always been to do the groundbreaking work and, as part of IBM, to transfer the work to products. I see my career as standing on a wall and seeing both ways. One way is seeing new possibilities and the other is building new products.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12917]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10017]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assertintegrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,the creatures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assertintegrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a modest budget. We wish to start with a small amount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36925]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a modest budget. We wish to start with a small amount.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to make this a model for other communities in the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33367]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to make this a model for other communities in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life,you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21399]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life,you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality oflife that's far below what you deserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a courtesy visit. He is a very pleasant and intelligent man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42603]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a courtesy visit. He is a very pleasant and intelligent man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance. -Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance. -Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66868]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman either loves or hates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51580]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman either loves or hates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing, thou elder brother e'en to shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing, thou elder brother e'en to shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44682</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[The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15901]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12560]]></link><description><![CDATA[And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21054]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For us the big unknown is how many people were actually on the ice at the time and how many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36631]]></link><description><![CDATA[For us the big unknown is how many people were actually on the ice at the time and how many may have been able to get out on their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912   O eternal God, who from all eternity dost behold and love thy own glories and perfections infinite, and hast created me to do the work of God after the manner of men, and to serve thee in this generation and according to my capacities, give me thy grace, that I may be a curious and prudent spender of my time, so as I may best prevent or resist all temptation, and be profitable to the Christian commonwealth, and, by discharging all my duty, may glorify thy name. Take from me all slothfulness, and give me a diligent and an active spirit, and wisdom to choose my employment; that I may do works proportionable to my person and to the dignity of a Christian, and may fill up all the spaces of my time with actions of religion and charity; that, when the devil assaults me, he may not find me idle; and my dearest Lord, at his sudden coming, may find me busy in lawful, necessary, and pious actions, improving my talent entrusted to me by thee, my Lord; that I may enter into the joy of my Lord, to partake of his eternal felicities, even for thy mercy's sake, and for my dearest Saviour's sake. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57445]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The look of the movie has a kind a muted tone to it at first, and then we introduce color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The look of the movie has a kind a muted tone to it at first, and then we introduce color to it as we go along.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the sea intoning, Only the wainscot-mouse,  Only the wild wind moaning   Over the lonely house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the sea intoning, Only the wainscot-mouse,  Only the wild wind moaning   Over the lonely house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34993]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade.  Where'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade.  Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise,   And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's invaluable. Honestly, without having me being a literacy coach, there is no way we could run the program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42666]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's invaluable. Honestly, without having me being a literacy coach, there is no way we could run the program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64936</guid></item></channel></rss>