<?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[A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy desire  In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16098]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy desire  In killing a Pike; but the forked stick,   With a slit and a bladder,--and that other fine trick,    Which our artists call snap, with a goose or a duck,--     Will kill two for one, if you have any luck;      The gentry of Shropshire do merrily smile,       To see a goose and a belt the fish to beguile;        When a Pike suns himselfe and a-frogging doth go,         The two-inched hook is better, I know,          Than the ord'nary snaring: but still I must cry,           When the Pike is at home, minde the cookery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look back and thank God. Look forward and trust God. He closes doors no one can open and He opens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look back and thank God. Look forward and trust God. He closes doors no one can open and He opens doors no one can close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Local school districts already have the ability to create anti-bullying policies and curriculum if they deem it necessary, so we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Local school districts already have the ability to create anti-bullying policies and curriculum if they deem it necessary, so we're reviewing whether there's a true need for this legislation in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wasn't a hard choice. They look at people that graduate from Rice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wasn't a hard choice. They look at people that graduate from Rice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17636]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. [Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis  Quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. [Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis  Quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having nothing, nothing can he lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having nothing, nothing can he lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't bunch enough hits together. The two double plays really hurt us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37294]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't bunch enough hits together. The two double plays really hurt us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13089]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people are to be taken in very small doses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people are to be taken in very small doses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took hundreds of years and thousands of lives, but the Universe finally taught me it's one and only lesson. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53240]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took hundreds of years and thousands of lives, but the Universe finally taught me it's one and only lesson. Existence is worthless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour? [Lat., Quid datur a divis felici optatius ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18641]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour? [Lat., Quid datur a divis felici optatius hora?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me aninstrument which only truth can speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21147]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me aninstrument which only truth can speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to play an upbeat style with skill and energy. I think hockey needs to be fun for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39692]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to play an upbeat style with skill and energy. I think hockey needs to be fun for the players. You want to create an environment that allows that to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is reading, but silent conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4576]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is reading, but silent conversation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56066]]></link><description><![CDATA[All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47473]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors should remember that if we do see companies start hitting estimates and not beating them, that wouldn't be such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors should remember that if we do see companies start hitting estimates and not beating them, that wouldn't be such a bad thing. It would mean there's less earnings management going on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what webelieve. What we believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what webelieve. What we believe is based on our perceptions. What we perceivedepends on what we look for. What we look for depends on what we think.What we think depends on what we perceive. What we perceive determineswhat we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So let his name through Europe ring! A man of mean estate,  Who dies as firm as Sparta's king, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18251]]></link><description><![CDATA[So let his name through Europe ring! A man of mean estate,  Who dies as firm as Sparta's king,   Because his soul was great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wages of sin are sables. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wages of sin are sables.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless he knew you wouldn't believe the truth even if he told it to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless he knew you wouldn't believe the truth even if he told it to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43460]]></link><description><![CDATA[See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our enemies will tell the rest with pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our enemies will tell the rest with pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all the silent manliness of grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18330]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all the silent manliness of grief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is Michael Owen anyway? What has he ever won in football? He plays for Real Madrid but he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is Michael Owen anyway? What has he ever won in football? He plays for Real Madrid but he is always on the bench.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55392]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course I was disappointed. My expectation was to play a more senior role, but this is politics. You don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course I was disappointed. My expectation was to play a more senior role, but this is politics. You don't always get what you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52310]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those who denounce what they do themselves.) [Lat., Quis tulerit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those who denounce what they do themselves.) [Lat., Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditone querentes?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You really love him, don't you? a simple psychological question, no name was mentioned but suddenly someone came into your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65771]]></link><description><![CDATA[You really love him, don't you? a simple psychological question, no name was mentioned but suddenly someone came into your mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't budget enough in salaries and we had a shortfall in state and local revenues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29332]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't budget enough in salaries and we had a shortfall in state and local revenues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many men, so little time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27003]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many men, so little time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She relied hardly at all on spontaneous foot traffic coming through the door. She has cultivated corporate and Internet clients. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38601]]></link><description><![CDATA[She relied hardly at all on spontaneous foot traffic coming through the door. She has cultivated corporate and Internet clients. It's more an evolution of the company and not (about) the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a strategic opportunity that was too good to miss. Cisco was very natural fit for us. I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40012]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a strategic opportunity that was too good to miss. Cisco was very natural fit for us. I don't think there's an RFID company in the world that would have passed on this opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour  Calls us to penance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53822]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour  Calls us to penance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56843]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty sets off one newly come to honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are uneasy, . . . you never sailed with me before, I see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15514]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are uneasy, . . . you never sailed with me before, I see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no fire. We started out a little down in the beginning. We were lucky to still be winning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34198]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no fire. We started out a little down in the beginning. We were lucky to still be winning, I thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50188]]></link><description><![CDATA[As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14594</guid></item></channel></rss>