<?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[When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66907]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866   The early Hebrews learned at the foot of Mount Sinai ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866   The early Hebrews learned at the foot of Mount Sinai that in the sight of God there is indeed a difference between the sacred and the profane, but there is no difference between the spiritual and the social.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real estate is a big concern, and we're going to have to watch it carefully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real estate is a big concern, and we're going to have to watch it carefully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47714]]></link><description><![CDATA[True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Build castles in the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Build castles in the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20457]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a blast doing it. We went and knocked it out and came on home for the rest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30450]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a blast doing it. We went and knocked it out and came on home for the rest of the holidays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are a new program but we're not the typical new program in that we're not going to roll over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33159]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are a new program but we're not the typical new program in that we're not going to roll over for anybody, ... Bring your 'A' game, because we're bringing ours. No matter how ridiculous the score is or how close the score is, you're still going to have to play every play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3574</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[God's glowing covenant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52942]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's glowing covenant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22214]]></link><description><![CDATA[There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule is like a wolf: it only destroys those who fear it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is like a wolf: it only destroys those who fear it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is a disappointment but not defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54832]]></link><description><![CDATA[How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is silvern, silence is golden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is silvern, silence is golden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61631]]></link><description><![CDATA[In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57500]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65169]]></link><description><![CDATA[First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, boy, that never happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, boy, that never happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15768]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think there are too many damn things on the road, and use the railways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There would have to be a structural shift in prices to change their perspective, ... Right now, there's a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37550]]></link><description><![CDATA[There would have to be a structural shift in prices to change their perspective, ... Right now, there's a lot of speculation built into oil prices -- the majors will have to see that turn into fundamentals in order to change their plans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61068]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come here this time as the special envoy of the secretary general on UN reform only, not as someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28928]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come here this time as the special envoy of the secretary general on UN reform only, not as someone who is entrusted with the task of talking about the situation in Myanmar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48017]]></link><description><![CDATA[And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3052]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41048]]></link><description><![CDATA[I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies, Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies, Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that ongoing year-over-year improvement in GM North American operations should accelerate as we progress though 2006 and, coupled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39184]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that ongoing year-over-year improvement in GM North American operations should accelerate as we progress though 2006 and, coupled with conclusion of the Delphi labor dispute, lead to a strong positive reaction in the company's stock price over time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled "the bisexual defector." Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake  The angel for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake  The angel for the woman in a kiss,   At once I wis,    My soul will wake!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 Incarnate Word! Thou Word of God alone!   To live of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 Incarnate Word! Thou Word of God alone!   To live of love, 'tis to abide with Thee. Thou knowest I love Thee, Jesus Christ, my Own!   Thy Spirit's fire of love enkindleth me. By loving Thee, I draw the Father here   Down to my heart, to stay with me always. Blest Trinity! Thou art my prisoner dear,   Of love, to-day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7023</guid></item></channel></rss>