<?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[Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's in a lot better shape than when we found it. The person coming in is going to have players ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32364]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's in a lot better shape than when we found it. The person coming in is going to have players in every class. We lacked that veteran maturity and you saw that raise its head in close games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose--easily trimmed off when once plucked. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose--easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters.   - Ik Marvel (pseudonym of Donald G. Mitchell),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19457]]></link><description><![CDATA[History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric  Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25121]]></link><description><![CDATA[For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric  Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,   To smatter French is meritorious.   - Samuel Butler (1),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our new HD4000U brings widescreen imaging to business and professional environments to complement the latest presentation tools and laptops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our new HD4000U brings widescreen imaging to business and professional environments to complement the latest presentation tools and laptops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.  [Fr., La parfaite raison fuit toute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53102]]></link><description><![CDATA[All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.  [Fr., La parfaite raison fuit toute extremite,   Et veut que l'on soit sage avec sobriete.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14335]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23120]]></link><description><![CDATA[And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There needs to be at some point some permanency to this thing. And I think that's what our concern was. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36874]]></link><description><![CDATA[There needs to be at some point some permanency to this thing. And I think that's what our concern was. We're not trying to tell Auburn who should be the chief executive officer. (We're) asking them to go ahead and make decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed  A place of drear extent, before him sees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59620]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed  A place of drear extent, before him sees   A river rushing swiftly toward the deep,    And all its tossing current white with foam,     And stops and turns, and measures back his way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to recognize, in the relational rigidities of many chapel-going people, the "negative reflex actions" of a character ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6712]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to recognize, in the relational rigidities of many chapel-going people, the "negative reflex actions" of a character structure which has survived the destruction of its intellectual and moral foundations. But equally, no one can go far in the Free Churches without lighting upon the new or newish cult of "sincerity as an end in itself" -- the first refuge of minds too lazy to rebuild their intellectual foundations -- and the sentimental distrust of "orthodoxy" and "authority", in theological contexts at least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism. If you come near them and see what conceits they entertain--they are abstractionists, and spend their days and nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application, and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My work is a game, a very serious game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62102]]></link><description><![CDATA[My work is a game, a very serious game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8789]]></link><description><![CDATA[As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099   Once I knew what it was to rest upon the rock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099   Once I knew what it was to rest upon the rock of God's promises, and it was indeed a precious resting place, but now I rest in His grace. He is teaching me that the bosom of His love is a far sweeter resting-place than even the rock of His promises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that had neither beene kithe nor kin, Might have seene a full fayre sight.   - Thomas Percy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56259]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that had neither beene kithe nor kin, Might have seene a full fayre sight.   - Thomas Percy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That 's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55961]]></link><description><![CDATA[That 's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only hold man'sfoot long enough to enable him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21842]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only hold man'sfoot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you wassmiling. Live your life so that when you die, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53691]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you wassmiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're smiling andeveryone around you is crying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13947]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These figures come at a difficult time, with regional and local newspapers subject to the same market forces as other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41240]]></link><description><![CDATA[These figures come at a difficult time, with regional and local newspapers subject to the same market forces as other consumer products and media. Despite this, a number of regional newspapers have seen some very impressive results due to investment, audience research and focusing on what their readers want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard for the young filmmaker not to envision immediate popularity, that being affected by the fact that his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15673]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard for the young filmmaker not to envision immediate popularity, that being affected by the fact that his work will unlikely be perceived entirely as he intended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For we walk by faith, not by sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14961]]></link><description><![CDATA[For we walk by faith, not by sight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A virtuous wife commands her husband by obeying him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51579]]></link><description><![CDATA[A virtuous wife commands her husband by obeying him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll see how things go in the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36225]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll see how things go in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cisco has been slow to adopt SIP. It has become clear to them, though, that SIP is becoming standard in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cisco has been slow to adopt SIP. It has become clear to them, though, that SIP is becoming standard in the industry. If Cisco wants to go after the small end of this market, in particular, it realizes it has to move forward with this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not speak to me of law. Not after what you have told me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not speak to me of law. Not after what you have told me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45476]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45476</guid></item></channel></rss>