<?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[Because I stuttered, my aunt told me I had to learn to spell, and spell very well, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because I stuttered, my aunt told me I had to learn to spell, and spell very well,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10949]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the SheepA wolf, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair. Being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the SheepA wolf, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair. Being in want of food, he called to a Sheep who was passing, and asked him to fetch some water from a stream flowing close beside him. For, he said, if you will bring me drink, I will find means to provide myself with meat. Yes, said the Sheep, if I should bring you the draught, you would doubtless make me provide the meat also. Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29399]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This band goes so well with the other two and we wanted to give them as much as a chance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38215]]></link><description><![CDATA[This band goes so well with the other two and we wanted to give them as much as a chance as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are those who in their very first seeking of it are nearer the kingdom of Heaven than many who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8200]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are those who in their very first seeking of it are nearer the kingdom of Heaven than many who have for years believed themselves to be of it. In the former there is more of the mind of Jesus, and when He calls them they recognize Him at once and go after Him; while the others examine Him from head to foot and, finding Him not sufficiently like the Jesus of their conception, turn their backs and go to church or chapel or chamber to kneel before a vague form mingled of tradition and fancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not replacing DIY with DIFM by any means. What we're doing is broadening our DIY model to include the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31545]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not replacing DIY with DIFM by any means. What we're doing is broadening our DIY model to include the do-it-for-me category.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4294]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you go out like that at home, it hurts. I had hoped to see a lot more effort today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35397]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you go out like that at home, it hurts. I had hoped to see a lot more effort today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12323]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits  And rank me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits  And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilty consciences always make people cowards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilty consciences always make people cowards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45136]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25068]]></link><description><![CDATA[A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think today's younger audience, ... would even know what 1920s musicals were like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think today's younger audience, ... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56023]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19918]]></link><description><![CDATA[At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44617]]></link><description><![CDATA[A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So sweet, so sweet the roses in their blowing, So sweet the daffodils, so fair to see;  So blithe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23568]]></link><description><![CDATA[So sweet, so sweet the roses in their blowing, So sweet the daffodils, so fair to see;  So blithe and gay the humming-bird a going   From flower to flower, a-hunting with the bee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17592]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth and History involve nothing more than convincing the masses that you are right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth and History involve nothing more than convincing the masses that you are right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man with courage makes a majority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10289]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man with courage makes a majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. -Robert F. Goheen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13537]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. -Robert F. Goheen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her actions over the years have served to diminish the power of the legislature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her actions over the years have served to diminish the power of the legislature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54295]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25046]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14590]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride calls me to the window, gluttony to the table, wantonness to the bed, laziness to the chimney-corner; ambition commands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride calls me to the window, gluttony to the table, wantonness to the bed, laziness to the chimney-corner; ambition commands me to go upstairs, and covetousness to come down. Vices, I see, are as well contrary to themselves as to virtue. Free me, Lord, from this distracted case; fetch me from being sin's servant to be Thine, whose "service is perfect freedom," for Thou art but one, and ever the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows how to take over a game. He's not only a point guard, he's a scorer. Either he's going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36542]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows how to take over a game. He's not only a point guard, he's a scorer. Either he's going to score, or he's going to get it to someone else to score.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever preaches with love preaches sufficiently against heresy, though he may never utter a controversial word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever preaches with love preaches sufficiently against heresy, though he may never utter a controversial word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Markets were primed for worrying about risk - equities, bonds and currencies too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Markets were primed for worrying about risk - equities, bonds and currencies too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62889]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fair face may hide a foul heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50955]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fair face may hide a foul heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That number showed the market the U.S. may not be able to lower interest rates as soon as people expected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35004]]></link><description><![CDATA[That number showed the market the U.S. may not be able to lower interest rates as soon as people expected ... and that will lengthen the time before their recovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to sit down with this guy and ask him why he did it. It might have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35578]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to sit down with this guy and ask him why he did it. It might have to do with him being a veterinarian and not a physician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48494]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty. [Lat., Semel profecto premere felices deus  Cum coepit, urget; hos habent magna exitus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48494</guid></item></channel></rss>