<?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[I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line (marrying Nate with minimal motivation in season three) became a little bit of a diversion - and that happens. It happens in every show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert Hubbard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert Hubbard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Cicero, I have seen tempests when the scolding winds  Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57905]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Cicero, I have seen tempests when the scolding winds  Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen   Th' ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam    To be exalted with the threat'ning clouds;     But never till to-night, never till now,      Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is a philosophical reason...The resources on earth won't last forever, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32983]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is a philosophical reason...The resources on earth won't last forever,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    (1) God's children ought to walk in constant amazement of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    (1) God's children ought to walk in constant amazement of spirit as to God, His nature, and works. (2) The glorifying of God is the great work of God's children. (3) Delightful privacy with God argues strong affection. (4) Frequent prayer an argument of much of God's Spirit; true prayer is the pouring out of the heart to God; God's children are most in private with God; the prayers of God's people most respect spiritual mercies; God's people wait for and rest in God's answer. (5) God's people are sensible of their unworthiness. (6) God Himself is regarded as the portion of His people. (7) Ready obedience to God. (8) The patience of God's children under God's hand. (9) The mournful confession of God's people. (10) God's people long after God in an open profession of His ordinances. (11) Their hearts are ready and prepared. (12) God's people's sense of their own insufficiencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could knowhow seldom they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22666]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could knowhow seldom they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft as some song divine, thy story flows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft as some song divine, thy story flows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it's 40 below and people want to stay home, pool players have to come out and play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38528]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it's 40 below and people want to stay home, pool players have to come out and play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24522]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62589]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate;  Armies won battles when he spoke,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate;  Armies won battles when he spoke,   And out of Chaos sprang the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, When the frost is on the punkin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3569]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While final figures on the number of people in need of urgent assistance are still being established, donors must respond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36563]]></link><description><![CDATA[While final figures on the number of people in need of urgent assistance are still being established, donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53961]]></link><description><![CDATA[In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8216]]></link><description><![CDATA[As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone -- which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baghdad is at the heart of the major issues of our time. For a foreign correspondent it is a dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baghdad is at the heart of the major issues of our time. For a foreign correspondent it is a dream to be there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,  And range an Indian waste ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59998]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,  And range an Indian waste without a tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is action and passion; therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is action and passion; therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fancy with prophetic glance Sees the teeming months advance;  The field, the forest, green and gay;   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fancy with prophetic glance Sees the teeming months advance;  The field, the forest, green and gay;   The dappled slope, the tedded hay;    Sees the reddening orchard blow,     The Harvest wave, the vintage flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It happens a lot with English bulldogs, a breed known to have difficulty giving birth. They frequently have to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It happens a lot with English bulldogs, a breed known to have difficulty giving birth. They frequently have to have a Caesarean section.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54743]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of scandal if circumstances warranted it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kind Of excellent dumb discourse. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56091]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kind Of excellent dumb discourse. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51906]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreading that climax of all earthly ills, The inflammation of his weekly bills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreading that climax of all earthly ills, The inflammation of his weekly bills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66252]]></link><description><![CDATA[If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61285]]></link><description><![CDATA[For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him laugh who wins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him laugh who wins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manufacturing activity in the region appears to have cooled off. We suspect it will be another month or two before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manufacturing activity in the region appears to have cooled off. We suspect it will be another month or two before auto manufacturers start ramping up production to replenish sales-depleted inventories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics than any other single misconception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics than any other single misconception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The opposition Press] which is in the hands of malecontents who have failed in their career. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23325]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The opposition Press] which is in the hands of malecontents who have failed in their career.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We estimate that only Winnipeg and the Atlantic are more affordable than Calgary and Edmonton, but only because home prices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32207]]></link><description><![CDATA[We estimate that only Winnipeg and the Atlantic are more affordable than Calgary and Edmonton, but only because home prices in the former two are considerably cheaper than their Alberta counterparts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do,  Must be an angel.   - Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65603]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66708]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44056]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were lots of good times in all levels of swimming. We're down to the last month of the season, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39252]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were lots of good times in all levels of swimming. We're down to the last month of the season, hopefully, we can keep it going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneratoin, but no rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneratoin, but no rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54441</guid></item></channel></rss>