<?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[A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two hairs, or two grains; the most universal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44949]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.   - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct and reason how can we divide? 'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct and reason how can we divide? 'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They played like they were down 2-0. You've got to deal with a lot of variables and a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35325]]></link><description><![CDATA[They played like they were down 2-0. You've got to deal with a lot of variables and a lot of bumps in the road. You just move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proximity of the Bay Area's 7 million residents places our local parks under intense pressure from residential development on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proximity of the Bay Area's 7 million residents places our local parks under intense pressure from residential development on their boundaries. Such development disrupts the natural rhythm of the forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This ban was enacted at the federal level, and Congress decided that it was an ineffective tool to combat violent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29261]]></link><description><![CDATA[This ban was enacted at the federal level, and Congress decided that it was an ineffective tool to combat violent crime, and as a result they did not renew it in 2004.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by Algebra. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24527]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by Algebra.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20602]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She acquires momentum as she advances. [The progress of Fame or Rumour.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51824]]></link><description><![CDATA[She acquires momentum as she advances. [The progress of Fame or Rumour.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank you for your voices: thank you: Your most sweet voices. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56077]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank you for your voices: thank you: Your most sweet voices. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.   - Ebenezer Elliott ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.   - Ebenezer Elliott ("The Corn Law Rhymer"),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Variety is the spice of life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Variety is the spice of life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a free country. You can say anything you want. True baseball fans don't say stuff like that. What can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34251]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a free country. You can say anything you want. True baseball fans don't say stuff like that. What can you do?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20082]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like 'Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!' and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, 'That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.' Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to be safe is never to feel secure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54639]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to be safe is never to feel secure]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the toughest golfer mentally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the toughest golfer mentally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forrester's company is getting business through Norcross's bank, so he's locked into the whole pay-to-play politics of this state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forrester's company is getting business through Norcross's bank, so he's locked into the whole pay-to-play politics of this state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really feel good. We came here planning on winning five games so we have passed the first two steps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35394]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really feel good. We came here planning on winning five games so we have passed the first two steps and played pretty well. We have to be ready to play tomorrow and can battle anyone if we are prepared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Nothing could better illustrate this authentic spirit of Christian monasticism, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Nothing could better illustrate this authentic spirit of Christian monasticism, stemming from Johannite monasticism, than one of its most recent examples, Father de Foucauld. If he went out to the Ahaggar plateau, it was not only to find but also to proclaim God, thereby teaching the gospel in a way which desert people could understand. After his death, the example set by this hermit was followed by others who, far from settling in the desert places of the Sahara, set out to mingle with the peopled deserts of the great cities, there to preach the gospel by their example and their very presence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6569</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[Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54631]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is this midget, who is not fit to lace Beckham's boots? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is this midget, who is not fit to lace Beckham's boots?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64475]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56635]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television: a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television: a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do understand the importance of our service to the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36778]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do understand the importance of our service to the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His studie was but litel on the Bible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54905]]></link><description><![CDATA[His studie was but litel on the Bible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19420]]></link><description><![CDATA[More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19420</guid></item><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[[Microsoft's omnipresence was apparent at the show in statements from executives of open source companies.] Microsoft is the largest software ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40464]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Microsoft's omnipresence was apparent at the show in statements from executives of open source companies.] Microsoft is the largest software company in the world. They are our competition, ... The day when they're not the competition is when we'll stop talking about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lou's such a great player, that if I can help make him better, I feel like I'm contributing to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lou's such a great player, that if I can help make him better, I feel like I'm contributing to the team. I'm trying to push the other guys, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness means quiet nerves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness means quiet nerves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44400</guid></item></channel></rss>