<?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[No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4684]]></link><description><![CDATA[No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a high explosive bomb but at this stage we are still investigating the type of bomb, whether it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a high explosive bomb but at this stage we are still investigating the type of bomb, whether it was homemade or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not death, but dying, which is terrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11272]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The whole being of any Christian is Faith and Love... Faith brings the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The whole being of any Christian is Faith and Love... Faith brings the man to God, love brings him to men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I love loses half its pleasure if you are not there to share it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10938]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I love loses half its pleasure if you are not there to share it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9502]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62537]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my finest moment, when all of my fantastic dreams have come true...I will be utterly and completely alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59064]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my finest moment, when all of my fantastic dreams have come true...I will be utterly and completely alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of schools are looking at open source ? budgets come into play here. Microsoft licensing takes a big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42417]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of schools are looking at open source ? budgets come into play here. Microsoft licensing takes a big chunk out of schools budgets. The biggest issue is cost, basically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Many drugs are prescribed outside their official recommendations, she says. Neurontin, for example, was initially approved only for epilepsy. But, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41454]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Many drugs are prescribed outside their official recommendations, she says. Neurontin, for example, was initially approved only for epilepsy. But, after a slow start, it grew to become a $US2.3 billion ($3 billion today) blockbuster for its owner, Pfizer, in 2003.] About 80 per cent of the prescriptions were for unapproved uses - conditions like bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, insomnia, restless legs syndrome, hot flashes, migraines and tension headaches, ... In fact, Neurontin has become a sort of all-purpose restorative for chronic discomfort of almost any type - yet there is almost no good published evidence that it works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14770]]></link><description><![CDATA[An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found significant problems, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found significant problems, the expedited removal process has been expanded over and over again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian religion finds expression thus, in the love of those who love Christ, more comprehensibly and accessibly than in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian religion finds expression thus, in the love of those who love Christ, more comprehensibly and accessibly than in metaphysical or ethical statements. It is an experience rather than a conclusion, a way of life rather than an ideology; [it is] grasped through the imagination rather than understood through the mind, belonging to the realm of spiritual rather than intellectual perception; reaching quite beyond the dimension of words and ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you count all your assets you always show a profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/85]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you count all your assets you always show a profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/85</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5039]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no index of character so sure as the voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60932]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no index of character so sure as the voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8756]]></link><description><![CDATA[If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest,  Indulg'd the day that hous'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest,  Indulg'd the day that hous'd their annual grain,   With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27168]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be left alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be left alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12120]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were absolutely aiming to capture that Sun Studio sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38520]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were absolutely aiming to capture that Sun Studio sound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let anyone persuade you that anything we do in life less than our own best, is a worthy thing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let anyone persuade you that anything we do in life less than our own best, is a worthy thing. You must never compromise with your life. We know when we are doing first-rate things. When we satisfy ourselves with second-rate things, it is the beginning of a long, long death. We die from that minute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it.It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66409]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it.It's kind of fun to do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did everything tonight but win on the scoreboard. I think we dominated a large portion of the game, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37600]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did everything tonight but win on the scoreboard. I think we dominated a large portion of the game, so you know we gave up a bad goal in the beginning. We have to put ourselves in a better position where we have to defend a lead in the last ten minutes rather than try to come back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58135]]></link><description><![CDATA[One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn, to the sea,  And Wickliff's dust shall spread abroad   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn, to the sea,  And Wickliff's dust shall spread abroad   Wide as the waters be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet is the priest of the invisible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet is the priest of the invisible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47057]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pulled it out in the end, but it shouldn't have even got to that point with the kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36548]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pulled it out in the end, but it shouldn't have even got to that point with the kind of lead we had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better bend than break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better bend than break.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40640]]></link><description><![CDATA[From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50900]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Columbus, bringing in Adam Foote was a huge pickup for them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Columbus, bringing in Adam Foote was a huge pickup for them,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GOP strategists hope the revelation of Kerry's wealth might debunk his status as a, quote, man of the people, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17384]]></link><description><![CDATA[GOP strategists hope the revelation of Kerry's wealth might debunk his status as a, quote, man of the people, and reveal him to be a bit of a fat cat. Unlike the President who — as we all know — before attending Andover and Yale, was a Cockney matchstick girl dying of tuberculosis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we say it's time for batting practice, they say, 'Oh, let's go!' When it's time for fielding practice, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40570]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we say it's time for batting practice, they say, 'Oh, let's go!' When it's time for fielding practice, they start moaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51645]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40157]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51164]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould  The purple oak-leaf falls; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould  The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough   Drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More are taken in by hope than by cunning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10836]]></link><description><![CDATA[More are taken in by hope than by cunning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10836</guid></item></channel></rss>