<?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['Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law To a very magnificent three-tailed bashaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54458]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law To a very magnificent three-tailed bashaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency. The second is war. Both bring a temporary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20841]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency. The second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity. Both bring a permanent ruin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got the ball I just went hard toward the box and on this field it's easier to stay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39071]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got the ball I just went hard toward the box and on this field it's easier to stay in front so I just made sure to keep the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This activity has an MHSA-approved scoring system very similar to track and field. Just getting a seat on a varsity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36000]]></link><description><![CDATA[This activity has an MHSA-approved scoring system very similar to track and field. Just getting a seat on a varsity trip is a big accomplishment in our program. To be selected on the state team is a big deal. These kids are the best and brightest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17950]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63842]]></link><description><![CDATA[All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To our knowledge, this analysis is the first to assess both the transient and long-term risk of sudden cardiac death ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31787]]></link><description><![CDATA[To our knowledge, this analysis is the first to assess both the transient and long-term risk of sudden cardiac death associated with physical activity among women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11061]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It costs more to doe ill then to doe well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It costs more to doe ill then to doe well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to disciplineourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21829]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to disciplineourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love , if you have it , you don't need anything else...and if you don't have it , it harldy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love , if you have it , you don't need anything else...and if you don't have it , it harldy matters what else you have .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60292]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No tye can oblige the perfidious. [No tie can oblige the perfidious.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49656]]></link><description><![CDATA[No tye can oblige the perfidious. [No tie can oblige the perfidious.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66528]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hustle and bustle of Charlottesville has been great to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hustle and bustle of Charlottesville has been great to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61442]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64841]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43152]]></link><description><![CDATA[For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At all times it is better to have a method. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9878]]></link><description><![CDATA[At all times it is better to have a method.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot command nature except by obeying her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43836]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot command nature except by obeying her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66543]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves on to a next sentence until he's perfectly happy with one he's written before. So he'll struggle with the opening paragraph of a chapter for weeks. This is laborious, not to mention painful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ask not a life for the dear ones, All radiant, as others have done,  But that life may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48058]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ask not a life for the dear ones, All radiant, as others have done,  But that life may have just enough shadow   To temper the glare of the sun;    I would pray God to guard them from evil,     But my prayer would bound back to myself:      Ah! a seraph may pray for a sinner,       But a sinner must pray for himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2021]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a bridge-builder that will help link the work force, legislators and technology companies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31627]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a bridge-builder that will help link the work force, legislators and technology companies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is treasure enough of consoling tenderness to allay every pain. Moreover for every one of us she is the initiator of the future. The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come. Through her the Family, with its divine mystery of reproduction, points to Eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26345]]></link><description><![CDATA[At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The M-7 is the best performing car that Metro-North has ever had. It survived last winter without a single weather-related ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41658]]></link><description><![CDATA[The M-7 is the best performing car that Metro-North has ever had. It survived last winter without a single weather-related breakdown. It performed in today's storm without incident. The M-7 travels more than 700,000 miles without a breakdown, although the contract specified only 100,000 miles between breakdowns. The M-7 put Metro-North on track for a record on-time performance for 2005 of more than 97 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not in the power of the devil to do so much harm, as God can do good; nay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8158]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not in the power of the devil to do so much harm, as God can do good; nay, we may be bold to say, it is not in the will, not in the desire of the devil to do so much harm, as God would do good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common good comes before the private good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47249]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common good comes before the private good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5255]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a direct correlation between the number of people employed at the paper mill and our income tax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42115]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a direct correlation between the number of people employed at the paper mill and our income tax.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got this information. And there's definitely an interest out there. The more we can educate people, the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33778]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got this information. And there's definitely an interest out there. The more we can educate people, the better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an urban forest, there is strength in diversity - in age and in species. Seventy-year-old willow oaks are all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41790]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an urban forest, there is strength in diversity - in age and in species. Seventy-year-old willow oaks are all going to decline within a decade of each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity is being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42078]]></link><description><![CDATA[These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity is being seen globally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65637]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59610]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or broidered zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57765]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57765</guid></item></channel></rss>