<?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[As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58918]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47400]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   This Gospel accords perfectly with the account which St. Paul gives of his preaching in the last address to the Ephesian elders, and it contains all the elements which are to be found in all the sermons and in all the notices of St. Paul's preaching in the Acts, except only the answers to the objections against the Gospel, and the proofs of its truth, which would be manifestly out of place in writing to Christians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll have to raise our game to a whole new level. It's a tremendous statement about our market that this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37577]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll have to raise our game to a whole new level. It's a tremendous statement about our market that this is coming to us, but this will be different than anything we've ever done before. Just wait until you see it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more communication within smaller organizations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40711]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more communication within smaller organizations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality begins on the inside... and then works its way out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality begins on the inside... and then works its way out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43740]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47901]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My plan of building from the back continues. I'm very happy that, in Josh, we'll have one of the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31532]]></link><description><![CDATA[My plan of building from the back continues. I'm very happy that, in Josh, we'll have one of the best goalkeepers in the league returning to our team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55744]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a big box with gauges and buttons and a lot of air hoses, ... Air tanks can support the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40396]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a big box with gauges and buttons and a lot of air hoses, ... Air tanks can support the machine for an hour at a time, and there's a back-up supply for when the electricity goes out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20177]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32007]]></link><description><![CDATA[My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66379]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three women make a market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three women make a market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never think of the future--it comes soon enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never think of the future--it comes soon enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23973]]></link><description><![CDATA[One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Princess and the Pea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Princess and the Pea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10624]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4603]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64511]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care. -The Merchant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55541]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27440]]></link><description><![CDATA[My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to have support like that. Being far from home, it's good to have people supporting you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28871]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to have support like that. Being far from home, it's good to have people supporting you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59503]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, you need to step outside, get some air, and remind yourself of who you are and what you want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, you need to step outside, get some air, and remind yourself of who you are and what you want to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely fun to play on the road. I actually like it a little bit more. The fans get all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32909]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely fun to play on the road. I actually like it a little bit more. The fans get all into it and the crowd gets rowdy. It makes it interesting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57893]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others ... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Sin is not only manifested in certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom -- unaccompanied by any vicious act -- are serious sins. They are expressions of man's separation from God, as the ultimate good, meaning, and end of human existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63030</guid></item></channel></rss>