<?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[I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came with the Conqueror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2479]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came with the Conqueror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds. . . . A huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue. Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open. [Lat., Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes: Fama malum quo non velocius ullum;  Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo;   Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras,    Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubilia condit.     . . . .      Monstrum, horrendum ingens; cui quot sunt corpore plumae       Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu,        Tot linquae, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on gladness; but at night,   When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic;  He could distinguish, and divide   A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10727]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic;  He could distinguish, and divide   A hair 'twixt south and south-west side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost everyone who has read history in a more than casual manner knows that when the great figure of God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost everyone who has read history in a more than casual manner knows that when the great figure of God appears in a controversy, the shooting cannot be far off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The experience has turned my writing from memoir to mentor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The experience has turned my writing from memoir to mentor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56574]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He got out of a big jam when he got Hilliard. The bottom line is he hit his spots and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31518]]></link><description><![CDATA[He got out of a big jam when he got Hilliard. The bottom line is he hit his spots and let the defense do the work for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our inventions mirror our secret wishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27681]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ooh, that was just a little phase (smashing plates to relieve pain). I don't do that any more but it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ooh, that was just a little phase (smashing plates to relieve pain). I don't do that any more but it was good fun, a release. I recommend it to everybody. That's as long as you're not hurting anybody. And find a place where you're not going to be in the way of anything. Oh and don't destroy anything valuable that you'll regret later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19426]]></link><description><![CDATA[It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust,if thou seest dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21274]]></link><description><![CDATA[That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust,if thou seest dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8540]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly, the[former] governor of Massachusetts has a lot of homework to do on the problems facing our state. When he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly, the[former] governor of Massachusetts has a lot of homework to do on the problems facing our state. When he finally gets around to it, he'll see that the problems we face require real solutions rather than stale political rhetoric.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All profoundly original work looks ugly at first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45304]]></link><description><![CDATA[All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many worthy people, and many good books, with no doubt the best intentions, ... have represented a life of sin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many worthy people, and many good books, with no doubt the best intentions, ... have represented a life of sin as a life of pleasure; they have pictured virtue as self-sacrifice, austerity as religion. Even in everyday life we meet with worthy people who seem to think that whatever is pleasant must be wrong, that the true spirit of religion is crabbed, sour, and gloomy; that the bright, sunny, radiant nature which surrounds us is an evil and not a blessing, -- a temptation devised by the Spirit of Evil and not one of the greatest delights showered on us in such profusion by the Author of all Good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born To Be Alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born To Be Alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury? [Lat., Quid facies tibi,  Injuriae qui addideris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22844]]></link><description><![CDATA[What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury? [Lat., Quid facies tibi,  Injuriae qui addideris contumeliam?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudices are what fools use for reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudices are what fools use for reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begging a courtesy is selling liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begging a courtesy is selling liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36826]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things out. And she just started to copy what I was doing. Of course, as she got better at it, I would show her the 3-d aspect of shading or how to render perspective ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â and she could just do it. She would just pick it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[not to allow Lebanon to be a passage for conspiracy against Syria. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29896]]></link><description><![CDATA[not to allow Lebanon to be a passage for conspiracy against Syria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your children need your presence more than your presents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your children need your presence more than your presents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will help. But one good year doesn't pull you out of a drought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30686]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will help. But one good year doesn't pull you out of a drought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61392]]></link><description><![CDATA[For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair? -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot sing the old songs Though well I know the tune,  Familiar as a cradle-song   With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot sing the old songs Though well I know the tune,  Familiar as a cradle-song   With sleep-compelling croon;    Yet though I'm filled with music,     As choirs of summer birds,      "I cannot sing the old songs"--       I do not know the words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come,  And do not spread the compost on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come,  And do not spread the compost on the weeds   To make them ranker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school, And took for truth the test of ridicule;  Lucy saw no such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school, And took for truth the test of ridicule;  Lucy saw no such virtue in a jest,   Truth was with her of ridicule the test.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Farewell!" For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er  We promise--hope--believe--there breathes despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19767]]></link><description><![CDATA["Farewell!" For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er  We promise--hope--believe--there breathes despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18416]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The improved capabilities of 3G networks and devices combined with the availability of more compelling multimedia content are clearly accelerating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The improved capabilities of 3G networks and devices combined with the availability of more compelling multimedia content are clearly accelerating user adoption. We have entered an exciting phase of rapid evolution in the mobile market. To profit from this new demand, carriers and content owners will need to analyze early consumer behavior and attitudes carefully so that they can continue to build consumer trial and repeat usage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52605</guid></item></channel></rss>