<?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[The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46721]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of places call for money, but I wanted to do more, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31212]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of places call for money, but I wanted to do more,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing particular to say about why we didn't prosecute. What I remember is the police report said there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing particular to say about why we didn't prosecute. What I remember is the police report said there was a problem in determining how much money was missing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22790]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. thanks to Michele Rousseau -T. Starr King.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mass production is for the masses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mass production is for the masses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  If the wounds of millions are to be healed, what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  If the wounds of millions are to be healed, what other way is there except through forgiveness? Jesus, at least, leaves us no alternative. The command is stern. The terms are set: "But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. -Elizabeth 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. -Elizabeth 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public conciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a color she abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2762]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a color she abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests; and he will smile upon her, which will now be so unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him into a notable contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be a caddy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be a caddy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought Brian played a good game, but it was same old thing: He just can't stay out of foul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28191]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought Brian played a good game, but it was same old thing: He just can't stay out of foul trouble. When he came out of the game, we stopped attacking the basket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother who is really a mother is never free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27268]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother who is really a mother is never free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making love is celestial, making war is terrifying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making love is celestial, making war is terrifying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17961]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11419]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he came back to the club he had to cut back but he took it in his stride and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32830]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he came back to the club he had to cut back but he took it in his stride and I can't speak highly enough of what he has achieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Einstein is an analytical mathematician seeking to give a physical interpretation to the conclusions of his mathematical process. In this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Einstein is an analytical mathematician seeking to give a physical interpretation to the conclusions of his mathematical process. In this he is hampered by a load of contradictory and absurd assumptions of the school that he follows, which throws him into all manner of difficulty. Einstein has such a faculty for embracing both sides of a contradiction that one would have to be of the same frame of mind to follow his thought, it is so peculiarly his own. The whole Relativity theory is as easy to follow as the path of a bat in the air at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part he gets all the line calls right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42143]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part he gets all the line calls right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw    It is better to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52880]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw    It is better to be quotable than to be honest. •Tom Stoppard    Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. •Orson Welles    Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are lies ... he (Aziz) denied this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29826]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are lies ... he (Aziz) denied this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to break [the course record of 57:37], but it just didn't go my way, ... A couple wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to break [the course record of 57:37], but it just didn't go my way, ... A couple wrong turns, I was by myself from the beginning. It's tough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30149]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The other night [in a loss to Philadelphia], we didn't do what we needed to do offensively. No matter how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The other night [in a loss to Philadelphia], we didn't do what we needed to do offensively. No matter how much I play, I want to do a better job of helping change that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That lineup doesn't have any weak spots. The bench is full of stars. When you're pitching against them, you look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34787]]></link><description><![CDATA[That lineup doesn't have any weak spots. The bench is full of stars. When you're pitching against them, you look at the on-deck circle and the guy there is even better than the one you're facing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59117]]></link><description><![CDATA[A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During our lives we're faced with so many elements as well, we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12251]]></link><description><![CDATA[During our lives we're faced with so many elements as well, we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and have a little hope. The Tour isn't just a bike race, it tests you mentally, physically, and even morally. -Lance Armstrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Belly and the MembersThe members of the Body rebelled against the Belly, and said, Why should we be perpetually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Belly and the MembersThe members of the Body rebelled against the Belly, and said, Why should we be perpetually engaged in administering to your wants, while you do nothing but take your rest, and enjoy yourself in luxury and self-indulgence?' The Members carried out their resolve and refused their assistance to the Belly. The whole Body quickly became debilitated, and the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes, when too late, repented of their folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that knowledge about past facts will continue to be passed down in a proper manner ... and will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34519]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that knowledge about past facts will continue to be passed down in a proper manner ... and will be used for future benefit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can lose what he never had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25588]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can lose what he never had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. [Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51654]]></link><description><![CDATA[The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. [Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Class is the impartial, consistent display of emotional integrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Class is the impartial, consistent display of emotional integrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can resist anything except temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can resist anything except temptation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although we have received many calls expressing concerns and anger about this incident, we have not received any calls which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although we have received many calls expressing concerns and anger about this incident, we have not received any calls which will allow us to assist in resolving this case. We are extending our plea for information and help to our Duke family, who are also part of our community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/928]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/147</guid></item></channel></rss>