<?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 know the time to go! The fairy clocks strike their inaudible hour  In field and woodland, and each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16261]]></link><description><![CDATA[They know the time to go! The fairy clocks strike their inaudible hour  In field and woodland, and each punctual flower   Bows at the signal an obedient head    And hastens to bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the proposals were for marine liability insurance. Which makes sense. Shoreline Cruises Inc. conducts tour boat operations on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42421]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the proposals were for marine liability insurance. Which makes sense. Shoreline Cruises Inc. conducts tour boat operations on a landlocked lake. There is not a whole lot of on-ground stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. Whenthe judgement day comes, God will find six crumbs. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. Whenthe judgement day comes, God will find six crumbs. Stooping by the coffinlid waiting for something to rise as the something's always did. ImagineHis surprise, bellowing above the general noise, "Where is Effie? Shewas dead." Back to God in a tiny voice: "My name's Maybe."The first crumb said. The number two crumb picked up the song."Might, I'm called. I've done no wrong." Cried the third crumb,"I am Should. Here's our little brother Could and my big sisterWould. Don't punish us for we've been good." And the last crumb, withsome shame, whispered unto God, "My name is Must and with the others,we've been Effie, who isn't alive and never was. Cross the threshold haveno dread. Lift the sheet back in this way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the art of overlooking the failings and weaknesses of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the art of overlooking the failings and weaknesses of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is the shell of the soul, and dress the husk of that shell; but the husk often tells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is the shell of the soul, and dress the husk of that shell; but the husk often tells what the kernel is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're throwing harder and harder at younger ages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37039]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're throwing harder and harder at younger ages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chicken is the Countries, but the Citie eats it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chicken is the Countries, but the Citie eats it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take it and return it: the kiss of love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take it and return it: the kiss of love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sequelae are inherently unpredictable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sequelae are inherently unpredictable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59177]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try moving off NT easily. You can move from Solaris to HP/UX to AIX or DEC easily relative to moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try moving off NT easily. You can move from Solaris to HP/UX to AIX or DEC easily relative to moving off of NT, which is like a Roach Motel. Once you check in, you never check out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time for work,--yet take Much holiday for art's and friendship's sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time for work,--yet take Much holiday for art's and friendship's sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25224]]></link><description><![CDATA[It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But now being lifted into high society, And having pick'd up several odds and ends  Of free thoughts in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56760]]></link><description><![CDATA[But now being lifted into high society, And having pick'd up several odds and ends  Of free thoughts in his travels for variety,   He deem'd, being in a lone isle, among friends,    That without any danger of a riot, he     Might for long lying make himself amends;      And singing as he sung in his warm youth,       Agree to a short armistice with truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a physician, Senator Frist has a moral calling to save lives and alleviate suffering. He joins Nancy Reagan, dozens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17015]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a physician, Senator Frist has a moral calling to save lives and alleviate suffering. He joins Nancy Reagan, dozens of Nobel Laureates, thousands of scientists, and millions of patients across the nation in calling for an end to the restrictions that have shackled the search for new cures. I applaud his courage in putting patients over politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I;  And fast I gather, bit by bit.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I;  And fast I gather, bit by bit.   The scattered drift-wood, bleached and dry,    The wild waves reach their hands for it.     The wild wind raves, the tide runs high,      As up and down the beach we flit,       One little sand-piper and I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Correction does much, but encouragement does more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Correction does much, but encouragement does more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a juried show. We look at the crafts and make sure they are handmade. We try to be careful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33308]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a juried show. We look at the crafts and make sure they are handmade. We try to be careful about the balance so we have a mix of everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're challenging the very best in the segment by offering refined Scandinavian luxury -- in other words, clean and elegant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35187]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're challenging the very best in the segment by offering refined Scandinavian luxury -- in other words, clean and elegant lines combined with intelligent functionality. Every single detail has been designed with a firm focus on the user's well-being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies like Texas Instruments, companies like Cisco Systems in enterprise networking. Leaders in their space, bellwethers, big-cap liquid names that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Companies like Texas Instruments, companies like Cisco Systems in enterprise networking. Leaders in their space, bellwethers, big-cap liquid names that I think are going to be around for the long term, leaders in the up cycle, ... Companies that the institutional investor can get in and out of quickly and that tends to draw a larger portion of the money when we have these volatile times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes  Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes  Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year was huge. It's probably the biggest fundraiser we've ever done for the Family Life Center. We raised about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year was huge. It's probably the biggest fundraiser we've ever done for the Family Life Center. We raised about $4,000.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is dangerous to confuse children with angels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5971]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks I got the sun in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks I got the sun in the mornin' -- and the moon at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.  [Fr., L'or donne aux plus laids certain charme pour plaire,   Et que sans lui le reste est une triste affaire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15095]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it to climbing up a hill,   Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour:    For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill,     And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper,"      To have, when the original is dust,       A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392   The manifestation of God in the flesh, the Evangelists set down by way of a history; the Apostle goes farther, and finds a deep mystery in it, and for a mystery commends it to us. Now there is difference between these two--many, this for one: that a man may hear a story and never wash his hands; but a mystery requires both the hands and the heart to be clean that shall deal with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51128]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the curve has moved to flat as a pancake to a bit inverted and yields open the year near ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32932]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the curve has moved to flat as a pancake to a bit inverted and yields open the year near 4.38%, we are not excited about further inversion just yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,  Hath put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2992]]></link><description><![CDATA[From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,  Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,   That heavy Saturn laughed and leapt with him;    Yet nor the lays of birds, not the sweet smell     Of different flowers in odor and in hue,      Could make me any summer's story tell,       Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:        Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,         Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;          They were but sweet, but figures of delight,           Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.            Yet seemed it winter still, and you away,             As with your shadow I with these did play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And all at Worcester but the honour lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19721]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all at Worcester but the honour lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61941]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't take a well-tanned person seriously ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't take a well-tanned person seriously]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do this real moron thing, it's called thinking, and I'm not a very good Amercian because I like to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do this real moron thing, it's called thinking, and I'm not a very good Amercian because I like to form my own opionions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette requires us to admire the human race ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette requires us to admire the human race]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  Too late came I to love thee, O thou Beauty so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  Too late came I to love thee, O thou Beauty so ancient and so fresh, yea too late came I to love thee. And behold, thou wert within me, and I out of myself, where I made search for thee: I ugly rushed headlong upon those beautiful things thou hast made. Thou indeed wert with me; but I was not with thee: these beauties kept me far enough from thee: even those, which unless they were in thee, should not be at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16539</guid></item></channel></rss>