<?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 beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is really very special because it's the first class. I think this is very important for the sport of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38785]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is really very special because it's the first class. I think this is very important for the sport of college baseball, and important for their respective universities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moonlight is sculpture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moonlight is sculpture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we've begun to do is discuss the issue, the constitutional issues around that idea, again the privacy issue, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31694]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we've begun to do is discuss the issue, the constitutional issues around that idea, again the privacy issue, which may not be unconstitutional but may pertain to our unique sense of privacy in the United States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees,  And shape the whisper of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57853]]></link><description><![CDATA[And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees,  And shape the whisper of the throne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's interesting to have been on the one side a chaplain, intern in the prison system and now fighting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40384]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's interesting to have been on the one side a chaplain, intern in the prison system and now fighting to keep people out of prison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who says they are not interested in politics is like a drowning man who insists he is not interested ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who says they are not interested in politics is like a drowning man who insists he is not interested in water]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we lost scholarships our staff had to make some difficult personnel decisions. As a result, we have lost retention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we lost scholarships our staff had to make some difficult personnel decisions. As a result, we have lost retention points because student-athletes have transferred when we were not able to renew their aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35035</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[The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9379]]></link><description><![CDATA[The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59738]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and notyour god. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and notyour god.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13795]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/677]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They mostly recruit distance runners. They noticed how I've progressed through high school. They told me I have a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33495]]></link><description><![CDATA[They mostly recruit distance runners. They noticed how I've progressed through high school. They told me I have a lot of room to improve once I get to college.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To my purist trout fishing friends, bass are lowly green fish and brown fish. To me, bass are bent rods ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/593]]></link><description><![CDATA[To my purist trout fishing friends, bass are lowly green fish and brown fish. To me, bass are bent rods and aching arms. To my ex-wife, bass are the bewilderment of addiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On many levels, the British presence is more sustainable. It is safer in the Shiite south, and casualties are low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32534]]></link><description><![CDATA[On many levels, the British presence is more sustainable. It is safer in the Shiite south, and casualties are low.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to keep the officers out on the things that really need to be taken care of right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep the officers out on the things that really need to be taken care of right away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10220]]></link><description><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11234]]></link><description><![CDATA[One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that our feasts In every mess have folly, and the feeders  Digest it with a custom, I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13277]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that our feasts In every mess have folly, and the feeders  Digest it with a custom, I should blush   To see you so attired, swoon, I think,    To show myself a glass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier. So they sell bullocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier. So they sell bullocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autumnall Agues are long, or mortall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autumnall Agues are long, or mortall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes all the difference in the world, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41334]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes all the difference in the world,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53220]]></link><description><![CDATA[To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45979]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself Are much condemned to have an itching palm,  To sell and mart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself Are much condemned to have an itching palm,  To sell and mart your offices for gold   To undeservers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the spirits, I believe the spirit of judging is the worst, and it has had the rule of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the spirits, I believe the spirit of judging is the worst, and it has had the rule of me, I cannot tell you how dreadfully and how long... This, I find has more hindered my progress in love and gentleness than all things else. I never knew what the words, "Judge not that ye be not judged," meant before; now they seem to me some of the most awful, necessary, and beautiful in the whole Word of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice,  And with that boding cry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice,  And with that boding cry   Along the waves dost thou fly?    Oh! rather, bird, with me     Through this fair land rejoice!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This starts to broaden our footprint to include compliance reporting and alerting capabilities in the high-use areas of the Microsoft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41819]]></link><description><![CDATA[This starts to broaden our footprint to include compliance reporting and alerting capabilities in the high-use areas of the Microsoft infrastructure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61228]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop the I. When that's all you have to say, it is very tedious and self-promoting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop the I. When that's all you have to say, it is very tedious and self-promoting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35636</guid></item></channel></rss>