<?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[John Lee is dead, that good old man,-- We ne'er shall see him more:  He used to wear an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2712]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Lee is dead, that good old man,-- We ne'er shall see him more:  He used to wear an old drab coat   All buttoned down before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3431]]></link><description><![CDATA[In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no substitute for hard work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21249]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no substitute for hard work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   The Word of God can grow to be only a hunting-ground for texts; and we can preach, meaning intensely every word we utter, and yet in reality only lost for the moment like an actor in his part, or at least leaving it to the folk to live it out; for us, bless me, we have no time for that, but are already immersed, poor harried souls, in determining what we shall preach on next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had been watching the area for a while and they were able to tag Cannon as a dealer. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29255]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had been watching the area for a while and they were able to tag Cannon as a dealer. When they obtained a search warrant and went to arrest him they found him sitting on his front porch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32019]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41073]]></link><description><![CDATA[A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Merchant City has some great venues for comedy. We want to show a bit of everything that happens in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28701]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Merchant City has some great venues for comedy. We want to show a bit of everything that happens in Glasgow's comedy community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly Katrina eliminated boating activities in that part of the Gulf Coast, but for West Marine, 15 stores were directly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly Katrina eliminated boating activities in that part of the Gulf Coast, but for West Marine, 15 stores were directly affected by the hurricane. Last year, they had 60 stores in the path of major hurricanes, and it affected earnings by about a penny. At least with respect to the hurricanes, it should be less (of an impact) than what happened last year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11111]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun—which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria Marquis Thoreau There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. -Margaret Thatcher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment is free but facts are sacred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comment is free but facts are sacred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,  With all the tenderness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61879]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,  With all the tenderness of wifely love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bruce has been a big supporter of the network from the beginning, and he's always been great to work with, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bruce has been a big supporter of the network from the beginning, and he's always been great to work with,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦'If this trend continues, we believe it could encourage customers to either rebook at lower room rates or at least ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33082]]></link><description><![CDATA[ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦'If this trend continues, we believe it could encourage customers to either rebook at lower room rates or at least hold out until the last minute to book rooms,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[King Stephen was a worthy peere, His breeches cost him but a crowne;  He held them sixpence all too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58570]]></link><description><![CDATA[King Stephen was a worthy peere, His breeches cost him but a crowne;  He held them sixpence all too deere,   Therefore he call'd the taylor lowne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63646]]></link><description><![CDATA[A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51892]]></link><description><![CDATA[As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.(on whether he had visited the Parthenon during ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57669]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.(on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This sounds like a geography question. I'm a geography major, so you're probably talking to the right guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31289]]></link><description><![CDATA[This sounds like a geography question. I'm a geography major, so you're probably talking to the right guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Important principles may and must be inflexible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Important principles may and must be inflexible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2125]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in  At sixty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9790]]></link><description><![CDATA[But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in  At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil,   And find a deuced balance with the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new lens to look through. Hear the pain in people's speaking. Peoplewho have an ear to hear can hear. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21957]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new lens to look through. Hear the pain in people's speaking. Peoplewho have an ear to hear can hear. You will no longer tolerate what youused to tolerate. A second point of reality. It's the loving thing to do.What's being revealed here? Dogs don't have things wrong. Wrongdisempowers people. Upsets indicate a "right" that's beenviolated. Notice when you are angry that you are the only one around. Theonly constant thing is you. Business is made up. It's invented. If itreally turns you on, you may want to inform your face. There is no"right" way. .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme valleys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme valleys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me another horse! Bind up my wounds! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me another horse! Bind up my wounds!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not in readiness to-day, will be less prepared to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50621]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not in readiness to-day, will be less prepared to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58066]]></link><description><![CDATA[With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19410]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they him spy, As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,  Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17200]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they him spy, As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,  Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,   Rising and cawing at the gun's report,    Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky;     So at his sight away his fellows fly,      And at our stamp here o'er and o'er one falls;       He murder cries and help from Athens calls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52151]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;  The thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16174]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;  The thing the which is flattered, but a spark   To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing;    Whereas reproof, obedient and in order,     Fits kings as they are men, for they may err.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran is fully committed to its NPT ((non-proliferation treaty) responsibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iran is fully committed to its NPT ((non-proliferation treaty) responsibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave;  Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave;  Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.   Love tends life a little grace,    A few sad smiles; and then,     Both are laid in one cold place,      In the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62447</guid></item></channel></rss>