<?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[Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would say it's four to one we've had more bad days than good days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32282]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would say it's four to one we've had more bad days than good days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you do that? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29452]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you do that?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[master of the art of lovemaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34820]]></link><description><![CDATA[master of the art of lovemaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet's darling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet's darling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5076]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing voluntary restrictions by stations, ... They are limiting you with the amount you can fill up with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38463]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing voluntary restrictions by stations, ... They are limiting you with the amount you can fill up with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps,  He lifts his head at that close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13095]]></link><description><![CDATA[King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps,  He lifts his head at that close tread,   The eagle of the Alps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15650]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a big-time steal for Duquesne. He will have an opportunity to come in and change that program around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29636]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a big-time steal for Duquesne. He will have an opportunity to come in and change that program around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a clowne your finger, and he will take your hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a clowne your finger, and he will take your hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882  The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought. In all our heart; that is, in all our understanding without erring. In all our soul; that is, in all our will without gainsaying. In all our thought; that is, that we think on Him without forgetting. In this manner is very love and true, that is work of man's will. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.  [Fr., Vous ne prouvez ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12749]]></link><description><![CDATA[You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.  [Fr., Vous ne prouvez que trop que chercher a connaitre   N'est souvent qu' apprendre a douter.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44909]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not permitted that we should know everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50283]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not permitted that we should know everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see;  But Microscopes are prudent   In an emergency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see;  But Microscopes are prudent   In an emergency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,--  Did fall one day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58562]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,--  Did fall one day extremely sick by chance   And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall,  I hurry amain to reach the plain;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall,  I hurry amain to reach the plain;   Run the rapid and leap the fall,    Split at the rock, and together again     Accept my bed, or narrow or wide,      And flee from folly on every side       With a lover's pain to attain the plain,        Far from the hills of Habersham,         Far from the valleys of Hall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,  And trifles life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,  And trifles life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are the pauses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are the pauses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. - "Trees". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27864]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. - "Trees".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What cracker is this same that deafs our ears With this abundance of superfluous breath? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58622]]></link><description><![CDATA[What cracker is this same that deafs our ears With this abundance of superfluous breath?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis all one as if they should make the Standard for the measure, we call a Foot, a Chancellor's Foot; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15564]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis all one as if they should make the Standard for the measure, we call a Foot, a Chancellor's Foot; what an uncertain Measure would this be! one Chancellor has a long Foot, another a short Foot, a Third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same thing in the Chancellor's Conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got up to the Peacock--where I found everybody drinking hot punch in self-preservation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13003]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got up to the Peacock--where I found everybody drinking hot punch in self-preservation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20175]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love makes one fitt for any work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love makes one fitt for any work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think I've had a team that never leveled off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34220]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think I've had a team that never leveled off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single rose can be my garden . . . a single friend, my world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single rose can be my garden . . . a single friend, my world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very hard to shave an egge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very hard to shave an egge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12331]]></link><description><![CDATA[All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22612]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right, instantly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right, instantly]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43363]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardens are a form of autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardens are a form of autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46433]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has joined the innocent with the guilty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50230]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has joined the innocent with the guilty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I win or I die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I win or I die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38012</guid></item></channel></rss>