<?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[In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56677]]></link><description><![CDATA[In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ty it well, and let it goe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ty it well, and let it goe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man hears one word and understands two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man hears one word and understands two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm kind of disappointed. I've had (5,000 points) taped up on my mirror for a couple of weeks. I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29681]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm kind of disappointed. I've had (5,000 points) taped up on my mirror for a couple of weeks. I would have had it, but I had a really bad long jump.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diligence is the mother of good luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diligence is the mother of good luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64567]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63849]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is absolutely no justification for the actions you have taken, ... You have already defamed the uniform. Do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35870]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is absolutely no justification for the actions you have taken, ... You have already defamed the uniform. Do not drench it with dishonor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were disciplined in the second half, though, and we made it through as group winners, when no one thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40198]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were disciplined in the second half, though, and we made it through as group winners, when no one thought we had a chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is most powerful who has power over himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47909]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is most powerful who has power over himself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51221]]></link><description><![CDATA[The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often wonder, if those that smile the most, are the most saddest people in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65697]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often wonder, if those that smile the most, are the most saddest people in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I defended him [John McCain] in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I defended him [John McCain] in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, that somehow the Vietnamese had brainwashed him. This is the most unbelievably callous, degrading, nonsensical piece of crap I've ever heard in my life, coming from some chicken hawk out there, to hurl at somebody who spent as long as he did being tortured and standing up for his country, and caring about it as much as he did. It's incredible that people would behave like that, absolutely stunning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51522]]></link><description><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63626]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53157]]></link><description><![CDATA[To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. [Ger., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. [Ger., Das Aergste weiss die Welt von mir, und ich  Kann sagen, ich bin besser als mein Ruf.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,  And marching single in an endless file, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,  And marching single in an endless file,   Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;    To each they offer gifts after his will,     Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;      I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp       Forgot my morning wishes, hastily        Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day         Turned and departed silent. I too late          Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture,  Of its own essence parcel pure.--   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2767]]></link><description><![CDATA[So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture,  Of its own essence parcel pure.--   From grave simplicities a dress,    And reticent demureness,     And love encinctured with reserve;      Which the woven vesture would subserve.       For outward robes in their ostents        Should show the soul's habiliments.         Therefore I say,--Thou'rt fair even so,          But better Fair I use to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all professionals in here and everyone can give a little more and be a little better. We have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37353]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all professionals in here and everyone can give a little more and be a little better. We have to play with more confidence and more urgency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This band goes so well with the other two and we wanted to give them as much as a chance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38215]]></link><description><![CDATA[This band goes so well with the other two and we wanted to give them as much as a chance as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16698]]></link><description><![CDATA[No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ain't got nothing. I've got this watch, and these shoes, and that's about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29506]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ain't got nothing. I've got this watch, and these shoes, and that's about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41595]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. There is only one thing, which somebody once put into my head, that I dislike in sleep; it is, that it resembles death; there is very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[criminal, n. A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5065]]></link><description><![CDATA[criminal, n. A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had started writing the fourth Whit Mosley book, ... I was 40 pages into it, and then Dutton asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37558]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had started writing the fourth Whit Mosley book, ... I was 40 pages into it, and then Dutton asked me if I would consider writing a standalone. The series novel can do a lot to build a loyal readership, but the standalone is sometimes easier for the publisher to market to a broader audience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45633]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people choose not to donate their services because they believe that it somehow devalues them by "giving them away." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people choose not to donate their services because they believe that it somehow devalues them by "giving them away." In truth, there is nothing that demonstrates the value of your skills more than putting them to good use for a cause you believe in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh--  To figure in the Catalogue,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh--  To figure in the Catalogue,   And woo the public eye.    Something I must invent and paint;     But oh my wit is not      Like one of those kind substantives       That answer Who and What?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46520]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20245]]></link><description><![CDATA[With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fish in troubled waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16120]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fish in troubled waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ascetic believed that, because he was so holy, the Devil was permitted special liberties with him, and he found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ascetic believed that, because he was so holy, the Devil was permitted special liberties with him, and he found in his increasing agony of effort a token of divine approval. Not along this track lies the path of moral progress. Christianity says: face the evil once for all, and disown it. Then quiet the spirit in the presence of God. Let His perfections fill the field of vision. In particular, let the concrete embodiment of the goodness of God in Christ attract and absorb the gaze of the soul. Here is the righteousness, not as a fixed and abstract ideal, but in a living human person. The righteousness of Christ is a real achievement of God's own Spirit in man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach  In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been a Benny Goodman-type market, ... lots of swing, and it's very, very difficult to get a handle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28647]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been a Benny Goodman-type market, ... lots of swing, and it's very, very difficult to get a handle on long-term positioning when the market is moving up and down so rapidly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27216]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that plaies his mony ought not to value it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49386]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that plaies his mony ought not to value it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that the cost savings available in the deal are very real, and the deal should be accretive to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that the cost savings available in the deal are very real, and the deal should be accretive to Fleet's earnings, which is good thing financially, but what the banking industry in general has to prove to the investment world is that they can cross-sell additional products to all of those retail and small business and commercial banking customers. If they show real revenue growth doing these types of cross-selling activities, then a deal like this really might be something to get excited about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness breaks the spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness breaks the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25539</guid></item></channel></rss>