<?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[Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice experienced in the UK population and that seems to be true pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice experienced in the UK population and that seems to be true pretty much across gender, ethnicity and religion -- people of all types experience it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure  Their blossoms from their roots, accessible   Alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure  Their blossoms from their roots, accessible   Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer;    Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill.     God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect is what we owe; love, what we give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not for the money this time. The one thing we can't live with is class size and composition. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30779]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not for the money this time. The one thing we can't live with is class size and composition. We know that in going out, we're going to harm students, but this time, staying in the class will harm students. Do we go out, or do we stay in the class and watch students being harmed?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52995]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22077]]></link><description><![CDATA[By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38010]]></link><description><![CDATA[I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1701]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are none of us infallible -- not even the youngest of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15063]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are none of us infallible -- not even the youngest of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44986]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66507]]></link><description><![CDATA[High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one's life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6282]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea thatpossesses the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22671]]></link><description><![CDATA[A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea thatpossesses the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line (marrying Nate with minimal motivation in season three) became a little bit of a diversion - and that happens. It happens in every show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We told him he could play and we would watch. That was the first time he broke down and said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41214]]></link><description><![CDATA[We told him he could play and we would watch. That was the first time he broke down and said he couldn't and couldn't and couldn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57875]]></link><description><![CDATA[One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's character is his guardian divinity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64896]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's character is his guardian divinity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read i]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather see a serman than hear one any day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22374]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather see a serman than hear one any day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings?  Ah, who is this lady fine?   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings?  Ah, who is this lady fine?   The Vine, boys, the Vine!    The mother of the mighty Wine,     A roamer is she      O'er wall and tree       And sometimes very good company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I despise mankind in all its strata; I foresee that our descendants will be still far unhappier than we are. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47844]]></link><description><![CDATA[I despise mankind in all its strata; I foresee that our descendants will be still far unhappier than we are. Would I not be a criminal if, notwithstanding this view, I should provide for progeny, i.e. for unfortunates? [Ger., Ich verachte die Menschheit in allen ihren Schichten; ich sehe es voraus, dass unsere Nachkommen noch weit unglucklicher sein werden, als wir. Sollte ich nicht ein Sunder sein, wenn ich trotz dieser Ansicht fur Nachkommen, d.h. fur Ungluckliche sorgte?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organizations are waking up to the pressing need for application security. The overwhelming growth of the application security market has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organizations are waking up to the pressing need for application security. The overwhelming growth of the application security market has created a need to educate and train companies on application quality best practices, as well as the best approach to building reliable, secure applications.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56963]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26671]]></link><description><![CDATA[By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's never really even been off the farm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30744]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's never really even been off the farm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38412]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's our bread and butter. Sometimes it's good and it was good tonight. The first time we played them they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32525]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's our bread and butter. Sometimes it's good and it was good tonight. The first time we played them they handled it very well and last Friday they played it well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was like, 'Cam, can you hear me?' ... He mumbled, 'Yeah,' but he wasn't there. You could tell he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41861]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was like, 'Cam, can you hear me?' ... He mumbled, 'Yeah,' but he wasn't there. You could tell he wasn't right. ... I couldn't imagine being a paramedic going to the scene of a wreck. That's what that was, pretty much, a wreck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50704]]></link><description><![CDATA[A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/954]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach  In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61334</guid></item></channel></rss>