<?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 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[I've played with and against (Anderson) almost my whole life in club. When I saw which way his plant foot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37687]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've played with and against (Anderson) almost my whole life in club. When I saw which way his plant foot was going, I knew I had it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Durability is part of what makes a great athlete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our trading multiple has come up but it's still below the average of our peers and is particularly low on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our trading multiple has come up but it's still below the average of our peers and is particularly low on a forward basis. We are slowly building confidence - one quarter at a time - and we think it is eventually going to be noticed by the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We stand for negotiations and emphasize that issues of this kind cannot be referred to the UN Security Council just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35735]]></link><description><![CDATA[We stand for negotiations and emphasize that issues of this kind cannot be referred to the UN Security Council just because of imagination about (Iran's) intentions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bravest at the last, She levelled at our purposes, and being royal,  Took her own way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bravest at the last, She levelled at our purposes, and being royal,  Took her own way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56436]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12991]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25759]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, -I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But zeal moved thee; To please thy gods thou didst it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62628]]></link><description><![CDATA[But zeal moved thee; To please thy gods thou didst it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said, 'Mommy, this important news. This needs to get out. We ran it by the vice president and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said, 'Mommy, this important news. This needs to get out. We ran it by the vice president and he was very mindful of his role as a guest. He said something along the lines of, 'You all do whatever you are comfortable with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In doing we learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24578]]></link><description><![CDATA[In doing we learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if college actually changes your viewpoint; it just gives you more depth. There is actually a theory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if college actually changes your viewpoint; it just gives you more depth. There is actually a theory called the reinforcement thesis, which says that people acquire a mental lens or filter at a very young age. As you get older you tend to accept more readily the information that reinforces that view and reject information that contradicts it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10942]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a backlash in traditionally high-quality suburban school districts from parents who are starting to question, 'Is our math program ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37531]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a backlash in traditionally high-quality suburban school districts from parents who are starting to question, 'Is our math program really the best?' ... Children still fall through the cracks even in traditionally good school districts, and charter schools are all about helping kids get a better education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first three weeks were bitterly cold, but the last week was pretty darn warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first three weeks were bitterly cold, but the last week was pretty darn warm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13168]]></link><description><![CDATA[He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solon wished everybody to be ready to take everybody else's part; but surely Chilo was wiser in holding that public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solon wished everybody to be ready to take everybody else's part; but surely Chilo was wiser in holding that public affairs go best when the laws have much attention and the orators none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15672]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64697]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxes are the sinews of the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taxes are the sinews of the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apt Alliteration's artful aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apt Alliteration's artful aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58039]]></link><description><![CDATA[As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/805]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The [Christian] "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The [Christian] "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian religion finds expression thus, in the love of those who love Christ, more comprehensibly and accessibly than in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian religion finds expression thus, in the love of those who love Christ, more comprehensibly and accessibly than in metaphysical or ethical statements. It is an experience rather than a conclusion, a way of life rather than an ideology; [it is] grasped through the imagination rather than understood through the mind, belonging to the realm of spiritual rather than intellectual perception; reaching quite beyond the dimension of words and ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has been figured out, except how to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has been figured out, except how to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a tragedy, ... I wish it had never happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38546]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a tragedy, ... I wish it had never happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Song forbids victorious deeds to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Song forbids victorious deeds to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gives Corey an excellent chance to learn the offense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33924]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gives Corey an excellent chance to learn the offense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Storm water is a source of pollution, because there are pollutants in our environment that the storm water picks up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Storm water is a source of pollution, because there are pollutants in our environment that the storm water picks up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not at all surprised that the rebels are not accepting the peace deal. Why should they? It's never going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not at all surprised that the rebels are not accepting the peace deal. Why should they? It's never going to be implemented. The government is just going to undermine it every way they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This kind of give-and-take lies at the heart of scientific progress and is precisely why scientific analyses are made available ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30739]]></link><description><![CDATA[This kind of give-and-take lies at the heart of scientific progress and is precisely why scientific analyses are made available in the open literature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24832]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adieu, delightful land of France! O my country so dear, which nourished my infancy! [Fr., Adieu, plaisant pays de France! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adieu, delightful land of France! O my country so dear, which nourished my infancy! [Fr., Adieu, plaisant pays de France!  O, ma patrie   La plus cherie,    Qui a nourrie ma jeune enfance!     Adieu, France--adieu, mes beaux jours.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He deliberately thrusts his silly head into the matrimonial halter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50444]]></link><description><![CDATA[He deliberately thrusts his silly head into the matrimonial halter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces. - "Usenet posting in talk.politics.guns".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is the child of peril. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is the child of peril.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47483</guid></item></channel></rss>