<?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 novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25389]]></link><description><![CDATA[This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26945]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence  Wielded at will that fierce democratie,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence  Wielded at will that fierce democratie,   Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece,    To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59150]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33131]]></link><description><![CDATA[From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9517]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise. [Ger., Es ist dem Menschen leichter und gelaufiger, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16167]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise. [Ger., Es ist dem Menschen leichter und gelaufiger, zu schmeicheln als zu loben.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if we've made a statement, but it's enjoyable. This tournament kind of emulates the state tournament, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31954]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if we've made a statement, but it's enjoyable. This tournament kind of emulates the state tournament, so we can learn from this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody with a ticket is now a 'ticket broker,' so how you describe the secondary market is becoming blurry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody with a ticket is now a 'ticket broker,' so how you describe the secondary market is becoming blurry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walked over, and you could feel the floor was lower than it should be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30508]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walked over, and you could feel the floor was lower than it should be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56307]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act nothing in furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act nothing in furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20148]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost;  When character is lost, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25578]]></link><description><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost;  When character is lost, all is lost!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39147]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you can see just walking around Portland is evidence of what's going on in construction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29640]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you can see just walking around Portland is evidence of what's going on in construction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43571]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard nothing whatsoever about this alleged media speculation. This is a matter for the judiciary to decide on, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28229]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard nothing whatsoever about this alleged media speculation. This is a matter for the judiciary to decide on, not for politicians and Jalal should know better than that. Why should he make a statement on the accused to the public? The court, the judge need to decide on this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. -Laurence J. Peter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. -Laurence J. Peter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give them each a different quote about about winning, confidence, motivation, stuff like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39443]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give them each a different quote about about winning, confidence, motivation, stuff like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have received the resignation letter from Duran, effective on August 31, and today the president designated Carlos Marin to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28969]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have received the resignation letter from Duran, effective on August 31, and today the president designated Carlos Marin to be acting United States commissioner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just trying to keep the inning going so we could have a chance. We did a poor job ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42125]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just trying to keep the inning going so we could have a chance. We did a poor job early in the game but were able to come on late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they want to get with it, they'd better lower their prices. It's ridiculous that two miles down the road ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31666]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they want to get with it, they'd better lower their prices. It's ridiculous that two miles down the road you can get the same thing for a lower price. They think just because people don't have cars that they can jack up the prices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55689]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19191]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is profitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is profitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TDK faces a long-term struggle to get orders and take back market share, which they will probably lose because of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36521]]></link><description><![CDATA[TDK faces a long-term struggle to get orders and take back market share, which they will probably lose because of Seagate's acquisition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When this old cap was new 'Tis since two hundred years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2753]]></link><description><![CDATA[When this old cap was new 'Tis since two hundred years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time we try to move a piece of furniture, it just falls apart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time we try to move a piece of furniture, it just falls apart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (the kidnappers) were terrorists from the south. We have not identified their specific group . . . We have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34266]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (the kidnappers) were terrorists from the south. We have not identified their specific group . . . We have launched pursuit operations,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day of wrath that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning,  All the world to ashes turning.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day of wrath that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning,  All the world to ashes turning.   [Lat., Dies irae, dies illa!    Solvet saeclum in favilla,     Teste David cum Sybilla.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Bishop Aiden foretold to certain seamen a storm that would happen, and gave them some holy oil to lay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43988]]></link><description><![CDATA[How Bishop Aiden foretold to certain seamen a storm that would happen, and gave them some holy oil to lay it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the other be where he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the other be where he may.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are making changes that will increase the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are making changes that will increase the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion is a mental picture seen through an imaginary keyhole ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion is a mental picture seen through an imaginary keyhole]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58401</guid></item></channel></rss>