<?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[While I breath, I hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19814]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I breath, I hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10535]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, it's too close to call. I had a lot of surprises last night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, it's too close to call. I had a lot of surprises last night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the greatest of all religions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the greatest of all religions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think you can be a success at anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25564]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think you can be a success at anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12059]]></link><description><![CDATA[My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  [Dr. Johnson to a Quaker:] Oh, let us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  [Dr. Johnson to a Quaker:] Oh, let us not be found, when our Master calls us, ripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to avoid anything that looks like there is a partition, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41263]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to avoid anything that looks like there is a partition,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid excess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole!  To Mary Queen the praise be given! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56629]]></link><description><![CDATA[O sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole!  To Mary Queen the praise be given!   She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven    That slid into my soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61852]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945   Furthermore, [the unchristian environment] is the place where we find out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945   Furthermore, [the unchristian environment] is the place where we find out whether the Christian's meditation has led him into the unreal, from which he awakens in terror when he returns to the workaday world, or whether it has led him into a real contact with God, from which he emerges strengthened and purified. Has it transported him for a moment into a spiritual ecstasy that vanishes when everyday life returns, or has it lodged the Word of God so securely and deeply in his heart that it holds and fortifies him, impelling him to active love, to obedience, to good works? Only the day can decide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's adding to their cost of operations, but like any business, they'll probably add it onto our costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's adding to their cost of operations, but like any business, they'll probably add it onto our costs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to be an outlier in sales tax with this weak growth, ... We anticipate with the home heating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42412]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to be an outlier in sales tax with this weak growth, ... We anticipate with the home heating oil season coming back, it's going to be bad. The sales tax will probably take a hit in the final quarter of this [calendar] year and through first quarter unless prices all of a sudden correct themselves and come back down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All children are potential victims, dependent upon the world's good will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60558]]></link><description><![CDATA[All children are potential victims, dependent upon the world's good will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65332]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failing to plan is planning to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failing to plan is planning to fail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between style and fashion is quality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between style and fashion is quality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherefore are these things hid? -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherefore are these things hid? -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64536]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold And the mate of the Nancy brig,  And a bo'sun ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold And the mate of the Nancy brig,  And a bo'sun tight and a midshipmite   And the crew of the captain's gig.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no doubt that the negotiations will not be easy, ... There is a need for practical steps to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28840]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no doubt that the negotiations will not be easy, ... There is a need for practical steps to implement the principles of the joint statement adopted at the previous round of the talks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; Ilooked into the soul of the boy next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22755]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; Ilooked into the soul of the boy next to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise… you have just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15765]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise… you have just stolen our philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a lot different than my freshman year. I just had to play quarterback. This year I have to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38777]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a lot different than my freshman year. I just had to play quarterback. This year I have to know the defensive and offensive plays, all the special teams; there's not room for error. I have to know a lot. It's kind of fun getting to play a lot of positions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A room without books is a body without soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28140]]></link><description><![CDATA[A room without books is a body without soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18237]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearer, my God, to Thee-- Nearer to Thee--  E'en though it be a cross   That raiseth me; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearer, my God, to Thee-- Nearer to Thee--  E'en though it be a cross   That raiseth me;    Still all my song shall be     Nearer, my God, to Thee,      Nearer to Thee!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're seeing the benefits of an experienced group and a group that's known each other for a long time. Some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're seeing the benefits of an experienced group and a group that's known each other for a long time. Some of them have been here since middle school, so they're comfortable with and trust each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. No matter what, no matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25920]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. No matter what, no matter where, it's always home, if love is there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be;  Or standing long an oak, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18386]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be;  Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,   To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere:    A lily of a day     Is fairer far in May,      Although it falls and die that night--       It was the plant and flower of Light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8015</guid></item></channel></rss>