<?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[Listen. Don't explain or justify. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen. Don't explain or justify.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like a good hater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18855]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like a good hater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see how the company can have that kind of visibility, especially with a management team that had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see how the company can have that kind of visibility, especially with a management team that had to revise earnings three times within one quarter last year. They don't have credibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26032]]></link><description><![CDATA[People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ladies be but young and fair, They have the gift to know it; and in his brain, Which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55651]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ladies be but young and fair, They have the gift to know it; and in his brain, Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd With observation, the which he vents In mangled forms. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18478]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head;  For men, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head;  For men, by their example, pattern out   Their limitations, and regard of laws:    A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People constantly speak of "the government" doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47512]]></link><description><![CDATA[People constantly speak of "the government" doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do perceive that the old proverb be not alwaies trew, for I do finde that the absence of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do perceive that the old proverb be not alwaies trew, for I do finde that the absence of my Nath, doth breeds in me the more continuall remembrance of him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the nobler growth our realms supply And souls are ripened in our northern sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the nobler growth our realms supply And souls are ripened in our northern sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, "He's (Ronald Reagan) just like a Teflon frying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, "He's (Ronald Reagan) just like a Teflon frying pan: Nothing sticks to him]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I said to myself, 'That's an omen, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37789]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I said to myself, 'That's an omen,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that once hitts, is ever bending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that once hitts, is ever bending.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest (growth) at our hotels came from business travelers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest (growth) at our hotels came from business travelers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would rather give than get affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would rather give than get affection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go ahead, make my day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go ahead, make my day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61415]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really happy with the set-up (of the car). We worked on different aspects in each session. I hope it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really happy with the set-up (of the car). We worked on different aspects in each session. I hope it will be a clean race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work thou not on energized equipment, for if thou dost, thy fellow workers will surely buy beers for thy widow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work thou not on energized equipment, for if thou dost, thy fellow workers will surely buy beers for thy widow and console her in other ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission; he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what youhave given away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what youhave given away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a guy that will add some depth to our organizational pitching. He'll start at Double-A, in the bullpen. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31647]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a guy that will add some depth to our organizational pitching. He'll start at Double-A, in the bullpen. He has an average to plus fastball with pretty good secondary stuff and a good mentality on the mound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light,  Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer;   Their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25083]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light,  Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer;   Their pure breath sanctifies the air,    As its fragrance fills the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it had to come to an end sooner or later. I was just always hoping it was later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32912]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it had to come to an end sooner or later. I was just always hoping it was later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And spare the poet for his subject's sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46856]]></link><description><![CDATA[And spare the poet for his subject's sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy  Hidden in sorrow: at first to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58464]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy  Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear   The warble was low, and full and clear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind  Bated like eagles having lately bathed; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26618]]></link><description><![CDATA[All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind  Bated like eagles having lately bathed;   Glittering in golden coats like images;    As full of spirit as the month of May     And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;      Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no whole truths. All truths are half truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59854]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no whole truths. All truths are half truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Positive anything is better than negative nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Positive anything is better than negative nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay  Every pleasure with a pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay  Every pleasure with a pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what isimpossible with talent is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what isimpossible with talent is genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10233]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My doctors offered us a free round of in vitro (fertilization), ... So after all this is over, if it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39238]]></link><description><![CDATA[My doctors offered us a free round of in vitro (fertilization), ... So after all this is over, if it doesn't work out, we have the money. We can adopt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. [Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi esse hominis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15483]]></link><description><![CDATA[No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. [Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi esse hominis puto  Cum is nihil promereat, postulare id gratiae apponi sibi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immortality - a fate worse than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immortality - a fate worse than death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, what pleasure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, what pleasure, what heavenly pleasure!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His golden locks time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!  His youth 'gainst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50820]]></link><description><![CDATA[His golden locks time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!  His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned,   But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50344</guid></item></channel></rss>