<?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[Records aren't what come to mind. The markets are improving, but they're not red hot. Local employers are still moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Records aren't what come to mind. The markets are improving, but they're not red hot. Local employers are still moving with caution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're strongly opposed. We feel (consolidation) has already gone too far and the vast majority of the American people feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32178]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're strongly opposed. We feel (consolidation) has already gone too far and the vast majority of the American people feel the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is absolutely no justification for the actions you have taken, ... You have already defamed the uniform. Do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35870]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is absolutely no justification for the actions you have taken, ... You have already defamed the uniform. Do not drench it with dishonor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise: you don't have time not to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise: you don't have time not to]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make. -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Moliere] pleases every one but can not please himself. [Fr., Il plait a tout le monde et ne saurait ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54723]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Moliere] pleases every one but can not please himself. [Fr., Il plait a tout le monde et ne saurait se plaire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love. If you're so consumed by hatred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love. If you're so consumed by hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them, because you're thinking about them for the same amount of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one theory about angling in which I have perfect confidence, and this is that the two words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16115]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one theory about angling in which I have perfect confidence, and this is that the two words, least appropriate to any statement, about it, are the words "always" and "never."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is down need fear no fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42784]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is down need fear no fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30988]]></link><description><![CDATA[A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger that persuades to evil. [Lat., Malesuada fames.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger that persuades to evil. [Lat., Malesuada fames.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16038]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from us. But fairness and balance are possible. Not stereotyping people we write about is possible. We can be skeptical without being cynical,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44301]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, and smile, smile, smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. -Tennessee Williams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither cast your pearls before swine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither cast your pearls before swine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This gives us a very persistent presence in these portals and browsers, with voice-over-IP [Internet protocol], ... The ability to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42515]]></link><description><![CDATA[This gives us a very persistent presence in these portals and browsers, with voice-over-IP [Internet protocol], ... The ability to attach other services and applications to that voice service was very much a part of our strategy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal—that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal—that there is no human relationship between master and slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius and its rewards are briefly told: A liberal nature and a niggard doom,  A difficult journey to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius and its rewards are briefly told: A liberal nature and a niggard doom,  A difficult journey to a splendid tomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61210]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence from whom we love is worse than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence from whom we love is worse than death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3350]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3112]]></link><description><![CDATA[No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61683]]></link><description><![CDATA[A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20435]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089   I whould be very sorry that any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089   I whould be very sorry that any man living should outgo me in desires that all who fear God throughout the world, especially in these nations, were of one way as well as of one heart. I know I desire it sincerely; but I do verily believe that when God shall accomplish it, it will be the effect of love, and not the cause of love. It will proceed from love, before it brings forth love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14273]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to either prevent or slow down their counters by keeping our front court active and making them play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30492]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to either prevent or slow down their counters by keeping our front court active and making them play defense. We knew they were going to run, and we were going to stick with our defensive plays. But the breakdowns added up and they cost us the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become  Old in their youth, and die ere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48767]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become  Old in their youth, and die ere middle age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. [Matthew 7:7-8].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10033]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I think about Zeal, he was the most honest and fair man I had ever known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31857]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I think about Zeal, he was the most honest and fair man I had ever known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11181]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46452]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ruling eliminates the risk of a large-scale financial verdict, should increase the market's visibility of Philip Morris' long-term U.S. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ruling eliminates the risk of a large-scale financial verdict, should increase the market's visibility of Philip Morris' long-term U.S. tobacco market share and profit growth, and avoids press coverage of the industry airing its internal issues in public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but fortunately there is not much of it. [Fr., L'infanterie anglaise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but fortunately there is not much of it. [Fr., L'infanterie anglaise est la plus redoubtable de l"Europe; heureusement, il n'y en a pas beaucoup.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very fortunate because we're starting fall break tonight. Could you think about missing Wednesday, Thursday, Friday classes two weeks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31873]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very fortunate because we're starting fall break tonight. Could you think about missing Wednesday, Thursday, Friday classes two weeks in a row? But, you know they do it in basketball and do it in other sports.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good enough never is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good enough never is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you come to the end of your rope...tie a knot and hang on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21195]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you come to the end of your rope...tie a knot and hang on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5686]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can angel or man come in danger by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24914]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24914</guid></item></channel></rss>