<?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 March sunne raises but dissolves not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The March sunne raises but dissolves not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58490]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge:  All is, I never drink no sperit,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge:  All is, I never drink no sperit,   Nor I haint never signed no pledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. [Lat., Adulandi gens prudentissima laudat  Sermonem indocti, faciem deformis amici.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24903]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to say that the officials, our school administration and our school police did an outstanding job of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to say that the officials, our school administration and our school police did an outstanding job of controlling the situation. I thought everyone did a great job in preventing the situation from becoming much worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man,  History and tradition are explored in vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man,  History and tradition are explored in vain   For a parallel to his character.    In the annals of modern greatness     He stands alone;      And the noblest names of antiquity       Lose their lustre in his presence.        Born the benefactor of mankind,         He united all the greatness necessary          To an illustrious career.           Nature made him great,            He made himself virtuous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no direct interest in those cities and don't have a strategic plan to include them, but that doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32823]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no direct interest in those cities and don't have a strategic plan to include them, but that doesn't mean we won't in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43599]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So full of artless jealousy is guilt It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23166]]></link><description><![CDATA[So full of artless jealousy is guilt It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change brings opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change brings opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12325]]></link><description><![CDATA[DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55747]]></link><description><![CDATA[My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox,  Who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox,  Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up,   Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hearts that are delicate and kind, and tongues that are neither -- these makes the finest company in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hearts that are delicate and kind, and tongues that are neither -- these makes the finest company in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. [Ger., Das beste Gluck, des Lebens schonste Kraft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. [Ger., Das beste Gluck, des Lebens schonste Kraft  Ermattet endlich.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22030]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before high school I really wanted to play basketball and play in the NBA and all of that stuff. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before high school I really wanted to play basketball and play in the NBA and all of that stuff. I still miss it. Once I saw that baseball could maybe take me somewhere, I decided to pursue it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's finger touched him, and he slept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11405]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's finger touched him, and he slept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breaking his oath and resolution, like A twist of rotten silk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breaking his oath and resolution, like A twist of rotten silk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it feels good any time you hit a home run. But the guy is only 19 years old. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it feels good any time you hit a home run. But the guy is only 19 years old. He's going to give up his fair share of home runs, but he'll get his share of strikeouts, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43131]]></link><description><![CDATA[To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My hope is to challenge asinine modes of thinking about femininity and provoke discourse about issues surrounding feminine roles, body ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29205]]></link><description><![CDATA[My hope is to challenge asinine modes of thinking about femininity and provoke discourse about issues surrounding feminine roles, body image and female sexuality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17108]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know the full story but we'll be in touch with him as soon as possible. We'll keep our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know the full story but we'll be in touch with him as soon as possible. We'll keep our fingers crossed it's not too serious. Knowing Harry he'll do everything he can to get fit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15888]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46207]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have two guys who are battling hard, who are in an emotional game and who drop the gloves, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33974]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have two guys who are battling hard, who are in an emotional game and who drop the gloves, to me that's a 'hockey fight,' and I have no problem with that. But if you have two guys who go out on the ice looking for someone to fight, and it has little to do with the game, there's really no reason for that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship Will stay with us at the last, backed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38729]]></link><description><![CDATA[So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship Will stay with us at the last, backed by the night Whose ruse gave it our final meaning]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just stupid and unacceptable to the Mariners. This has sullied the reputation of the Seattle Mariners, and for that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31916]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just stupid and unacceptable to the Mariners. This has sullied the reputation of the Seattle Mariners, and for that it's terribly disappointing. We'll try to eradicate this, and we'll take strong internal action against the transgressors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We outgrew this space a long time ago. It's been cramped as far as in front of house space. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We outgrew this space a long time ago. It's been cramped as far as in front of house space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59020]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2432]]></link><description><![CDATA[America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentence first, verdict afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentence first, verdict afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14137]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What has become clear from the huge crowds on the street for the queen ... is that they do appreciate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31386]]></link><description><![CDATA[What has become clear from the huge crowds on the street for the queen ... is that they do appreciate the sense of continuity, of steadiness that the queen gives by having been in that role for a very long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31386</guid></item></channel></rss>