<?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 surest cure for vanity is loneliness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest cure for vanity is loneliness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He played awesome. You see his reflexes, on little tips in front, gloving them. He's a big-time goalie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32043]]></link><description><![CDATA[He played awesome. You see his reflexes, on little tips in front, gloving them. He's a big-time goalie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's common for fissures to occur, in the last days of any administration. Many leaders no longer feel beholden to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32950]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's common for fissures to occur, in the last days of any administration. Many leaders no longer feel beholden to the governor. They're also concerned about their next election -- and carrying the albatross of the previous administration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again:  The king ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again:  The king of Spain with twenty thousand more   Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60498]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentlemans grayhound, and a salt-box; seeke them at the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49025]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentlemans grayhound, and a salt-box; seeke them at the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do with all his might. [Lat., Quod ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/500]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do with all his might. [Lat., Quod est, eo decet uti: et quicquid agas, agere pro viribus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't vote for something that's going to give the mayor that kind of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38123]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't vote for something that's going to give the mayor that kind of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will enter into Paradise, must have a good key. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49410]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will enter into Paradise, must have a good key.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organizations would do well to build decision trees and develop workflow processes to handle probable escalations or situations likely to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organizations would do well to build decision trees and develop workflow processes to handle probable escalations or situations likely to occur based on previous customer interactions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. -Robert Greenleaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. -Robert Greenleaf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20843]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For they conquer who believe they can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9698]]></link><description><![CDATA[For they conquer who believe they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And may you better reck the rede, Than ever did th' adviser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/773]]></link><description><![CDATA[And may you better reck the rede, Than ever did th' adviser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slapped him in the mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slapped him in the mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With tooth and nail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48539]]></link><description><![CDATA[With tooth and nail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're going to see more referendums. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're going to see more referendums.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978 Commemoration of John ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978 Commemoration of John XXIII, Bishop of Rome, Inspirer of Renewal, 1963  The Gospel leaves men, unless upon extraordinary occasions, their names, their reputations, their wealth and honors, if lawfully obtained and possessed; but the league that is between the mind and these things in all natural men must be broken. They must be no longer looked upon as the chiefest good or in the place thereof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20460]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king's name is a tower of strength. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56018]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king's name is a tower of strength. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort,  Whose wit well managed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort,  Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,   Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were beating us to the ball on the floor. We had one rebound in the first quarter, four by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32109]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were beating us to the ball on the floor. We had one rebound in the first quarter, four by halftime and 12 turnovers (by halftime). You can't win ballgames like that. They deserved to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11745]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kisses: Words which cannot be written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kisses: Words which cannot be written.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19197]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it. [Lat., Qui dedit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it. [Lat., Qui dedit beneficium taceat; narret; qui accepit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44239]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, I am dying beyond my means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24142]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, I am dying beyond my means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1722]]></link><description><![CDATA[By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35128]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[just cause? just cause because we're outlaws ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18305]]></link><description><![CDATA[just cause? just cause because we're outlaws]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66058]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326  He that is alive may know that he was born, though he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326  He that is alive may know that he was born, though he know neither the place where nor the time when he was so; and so may he that is spiritually alive, and hath ground of evidence that he is so, that he was born again, though he know neither when, nor where, nor how. And this case is usual in persons of quiet natural tempers, who have had the advantage of education under means of light and grace. God ofttimes, in such persons, begins and carries on the work of his grace insensibly, so that they come to good growth and maturity before they know that they are alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and time do more than strength or passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and time do more than strength or passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25582]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. [Lat., Periere mores, jus, decus, pietas, fides,  Et qui redire nescit, cum perit, pudor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27665]]></link><description><![CDATA[When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24233]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the symbol to symbolize.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43495]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. - Guide to Good Leadership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The offender never pardons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The offender never pardons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53241</guid></item></channel></rss>