<?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[They laboriously do nothing. [Lat., Operose nihil agunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44678]]></link><description><![CDATA[They laboriously do nothing. [Lat., Operose nihil agunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But no one frees himself from being in love in three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36767]]></link><description><![CDATA[But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're excited about qualifying for the tournament. It's our first goal. We want to continue to focus on improving, getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37543]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're excited about qualifying for the tournament. It's our first goal. We want to continue to focus on improving, getting better, so we can try to extend the season as long as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54896]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When chickens quit quarrelling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52682]]></link><description><![CDATA[When chickens quit quarrelling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't affected by inflation -- I had nothing to inflate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't affected by inflation -- I had nothing to inflate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56081]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Parents) have a real kind of deep-seated opinion that the quality of education is not as high, whether the stories ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38141]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Parents) have a real kind of deep-seated opinion that the quality of education is not as high, whether the stories are valid or invalid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48225]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ne'er shall look upon his like again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51247]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ne'er shall look upon his like again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs, And speak men what they can to him he'll answer  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51898]]></link><description><![CDATA[This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs, And speak men what they can to him he'll answer  With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,   Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We voted on it, but that doesn't mean it went through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41153]]></link><description><![CDATA[We voted on it, but that doesn't mean it went through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is food." "Well," answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13195]]></link><description><![CDATA["Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is food." "Well," answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her, "we have been so busy to-day that a picked-up dinner must serve."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is happy for you that possess the talent of pleasing with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46688]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is happy for you that possess the talent of pleasing with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65523]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance... and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had our chances too, because we got to the foul line, but didn't convert. That makes it pretty tough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38276]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had our chances too, because we got to the foul line, but didn't convert. That makes it pretty tough because we have lost some tough games this season. It's an area I hope we can solve by the time we begin region play because that is when it counts the most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think [the digital services] will be pushing the majors to get it done in the next few years, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39992]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think [the digital services] will be pushing the majors to get it done in the next few years,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64296]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the load commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61747]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the load commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58724]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65923]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gamsters and race-horses never last long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gamsters and race-horses never last long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49260</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[If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid looking in a mirror, because I bet that will really throw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11780]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid looking in a mirror, because I bet that will really throw you into a panic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The TV shows and magazines both confirm and propel the trend. With the economy improving, and people making more money, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The TV shows and magazines both confirm and propel the trend. With the economy improving, and people making more money, it feels like they're beginning to spend more than they have in the past couple of years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's been close to decision-making for a long time and observed several prime ministers. He's had all the training that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34783]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's been close to decision-making for a long time and observed several prime ministers. He's had all the training that's required and he certainly has the capabilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15706]]></link><description><![CDATA[An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I received his resignation in the morning, and we will discuss it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28994]]></link><description><![CDATA[I received his resignation in the morning, and we will discuss it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In the ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me Ali ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41321]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In the ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me Ali ... Three of the prayer leaders were martyred during the Iran-Iraq war [of the 1980s].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.rnRobert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65478]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.rnRobert Hall]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have look'd on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've already started to look into safety at the port. We're talking to people over there to see if they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31772]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've already started to look into safety at the port. We're talking to people over there to see if they have everything they need from a security perspective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave one with an intense social consciousness, if it does not fill one with a sense of overwhelming responsibility for the world. It has been said... truly that the Church exists for those outside of itself. The Church must never be in any sense a little huddle of pious people, shutting their doors against the world, lost in prayer and praise, connoisseurs of preaching and liturgy, busy mutually congratulating themselves on the excellence of their Christian experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This sickness doth infect The very life-blood of our enterprise. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55887]]></link><description><![CDATA[This sickness doth infect The very life-blood of our enterprise. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now rather thank I God there is no riskOf gravers scoring it with florid screed.Let my inscription be this soldier's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now rather thank I God there is no riskOf gravers scoring it with florid screed.Let my inscription be this soldier's disc.Wear it, sweet friend. Inscribe no date nor deed.But may thy heart-beat kiss it, night and day,Until the name grow blurred and fade away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28081]]></link><description><![CDATA[When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28081</guid></item></channel></rss>