<?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 groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial. [Lat., Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial. [Lat., Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism. If you come near them and see what conceits they entertain--they are abstractionists, and spend their days and nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application, and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50142]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46373]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3415]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least in a food-and-sustenance sense, we've always taken what we put into our bodies in a fairly serious light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32463]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least in a food-and-sustenance sense, we've always taken what we put into our bodies in a fairly serious light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world of extremes, we can only love too little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25650]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world of extremes, we can only love too little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one thing we learned in 2005 is there is no simple answer or smoking gun for this. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31901]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one thing we learned in 2005 is there is no simple answer or smoking gun for this. This is a tough problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53219]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Larry Adams, 33, has been confined to a room in University Medical Center since April, when he received an artificial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40395]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Larry Adams, 33, has been confined to a room in University Medical Center since April, when he received an artificial heart. The heart is connected to a 350-pound machine, which is about the size of a dishwasher, and six feet of hose hooks the machine to pumps in Adams' chest.] I've just got to sit and wait, ... Everywhere I go, engineers have to push the box around with me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knute Rockne liked bad loser. He said good losers lose too often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knute Rockne liked bad loser. He said good losers lose too often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill;  I could not hear the brook flow,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill;  I could not hear the brook flow,   The noisy wheel was still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I 'll tickle your catastrophe. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I 'll tickle your catastrophe. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55920</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[We can tell you a recipe, but in practice, it might be different. Every woman in Bosnia, she will make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29161]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can tell you a recipe, but in practice, it might be different. Every woman in Bosnia, she will make it different than the next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having done lifestyle books and being an actress, I suppose it made sense to bring the two together. I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having done lifestyle books and being an actress, I suppose it made sense to bring the two together. I think that's what happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything comes if a man will only wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything comes if a man will only wait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  No one who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  No one who is fit to live need fear to die. Poor, timorous, faithless souls that we are! How we shall smile at our vain alarms, when the worst has happened! To us here, death is the most terrible word we know. But when we have tasted its reality, it will mean to us birth, deliverance, a new creation of ourselves. It will be what health is to the sick man. It will be what home is to the exile. It will be what the loved one given back is to the bereaved. As we draw near to it, a great solemn gladness should fill our hearts. It is God's great morning lighting up the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've come to this conclusion with unexpected and heartening speed, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40887]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've come to this conclusion with unexpected and heartening speed,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8150]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.   - Sir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54974]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.   - Sir Thomas Browne,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54731]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By that sin fell the angels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51360]]></link><description><![CDATA[By that sin fell the angels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a number of killed in the action in Nasiriya with the Marines -- I believe that number will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38359]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a number of killed in the action in Nasiriya with the Marines -- I believe that number will remain less than 10 -- and a number of wounded,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10719]]></link><description><![CDATA[What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes themselves had fallen behind! --Whene'er he went before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes themselves had fallen behind! --Whene'er he went before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good news, by and large, is that science has prospered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good news, by and large, is that science has prospered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5857]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness is a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness is a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17766]]></link><description><![CDATA[As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We experienced a steady increase in 1394-equipped products throughout 2005, and foresee continued expansion this year as developers demand the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34587]]></link><description><![CDATA[We experienced a steady increase in 1394-equipped products throughout 2005, and foresee continued expansion this year as developers demand the proven quality-of-service, high bandwidth, and peer-to-peer features that the 1394 standard delivers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6085]]></link><description><![CDATA[How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications. [The U.K. ruling] is a nice psychological boost, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications. [The U.K. ruling] is a nice psychological boost, but you can't extrapolate the U.S. ruling from this because of the different legal standards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2199]]></link><description><![CDATA[The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65298</guid></item></channel></rss>