<?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[Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12612]]></link><description><![CDATA[God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advise none to marry or goe to warre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advise none to marry or goe to warre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really, really great to be back. So let's get up there, show them what it's all about. Let's get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really, really great to be back. So let's get up there, show them what it's all about. Let's get back, let's retake the CBC, make it what it can be - a great public broadcaster for all Canadians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53007]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles river when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the end of his life, by the look of it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29901]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the end of his life, by the look of it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34971]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life . . . I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The White House Web site is and always has been consistent with the OMB guidance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The White House Web site is and always has been consistent with the OMB guidance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51122]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.") [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57340]]></link><description><![CDATA[To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.") [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61288]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47729]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has proven to be a very effective [model]. It is a single point for education, enablement, what I call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33854]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has proven to be a very effective [model]. It is a single point for education, enablement, what I call kicking the tires. We see our partners and partner centers as a natural hub [for] our innovation agenda to get out to the market. It has become a critical part of our strategy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3952]]></link><description><![CDATA[It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like). (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like). (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm hoping to get track-side for that one. It's equivalent to being next to your favorite baseball payer or Barry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41781]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm hoping to get track-side for that one. It's equivalent to being next to your favorite baseball payer or Barry Bonds, in the presence of legends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way to peace; peace is the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27863]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to peace; peace is the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not always measured in smiles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not always measured in smiles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65419]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953 Continuing a Lenten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  In our praying, we should speak to God about Himself -- that is praise; or about His gifts--that is thanksgiving; or about other people -- that is intercession; or about our sins--that is confession and penitence; or about our needs--that is petition. Prayer has five fingers, like a hand, and each in turn must be pointed to God, that our prayer may be full and complete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15882]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let lessons of stern yesterdays . . . be your food, your drink, your rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let lessons of stern yesterdays . . . be your food, your drink, your rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. -The Merchant of Venice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55544]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much of this world is based on illusion, temporariness, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35782]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much of this world is based on illusion, temporariness, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That good diffused may more abundant grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17851]]></link><description><![CDATA[That good diffused may more abundant grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7383]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time and of fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means [toward] great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head that softness and idleness were to be avoided and that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound. And news much older than their ale went round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound. And news much older than their ale went round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every living thing there is the desire for love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16462]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every living thing there is the desire for love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been lots of players in history that have had a combination of skill and scoring ability and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39657]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been lots of players in history that have had a combination of skill and scoring ability and the ability to grind it out and play a physical way. Certainly, he was a real good one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be all the disappointments that attract everyone's attention. They will get the headlines, but the underlying strength of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34711]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be all the disappointments that attract everyone's attention. They will get the headlines, but the underlying strength of the market will continue through this quarter easily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38555]]></link><description><![CDATA[They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59969]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60454]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66914]]></link><description><![CDATA[All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shout now! The months with loud acclaim, Take up the cry and send it forth;  May breathing sweet her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shout now! The months with loud acclaim, Take up the cry and send it forth;  May breathing sweet her Spring perfumes,   November thundering from the North.    With hands upraised, as with one voice,     They join their notes in grand accord;      Hail to December! say they all,       It gave to Earth our Christ the Lord!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18231]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18231</guid></item></channel></rss>