<?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[Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53361]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A theme is a memory aid, it helps you through the presentation just as it also provides the thread of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27756]]></link><description><![CDATA[A theme is a memory aid, it helps you through the presentation just as it also provides the thread of continuity for your audience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They [tax protestors] can pack whatever chambers they want, and they can scream and rant all they want. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30904]]></link><description><![CDATA[They [tax protestors] can pack whatever chambers they want, and they can scream and rant all they want. This is one vote they're never going to get on their side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the kind of PR you want. We haven't caught many breaks in the last several years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36330]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the kind of PR you want. We haven't caught many breaks in the last several years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're looking forward to the next step in the process, and it's a process that will go on over a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38241]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're looking forward to the next step in the process, and it's a process that will go on over a period of months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Said the little Eohippus, "I am going to be a horse,  And on my middle fingernails   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Said the little Eohippus, "I am going to be a horse,  And on my middle fingernails   To run my earthly course!    . . . .     I'm going to have a flowing tail!      I'm going to have a mane!       I'm going to stand fourteen hands high        On the Psychozoic plain!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just weren't playing together. I think we used too much emotion in an exciting game on Friday and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39439]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just weren't playing together. I think we used too much emotion in an exciting game on Friday and we the next game we just burned out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8753]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been years since that kind of new money for Puget Sound has been on the books. This is turning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30390]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been years since that kind of new money for Puget Sound has been on the books. This is turning a corner here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have exceeded forecasts. Such large growth was not expected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42608]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have exceeded forecasts. Such large growth was not expected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We encourage students to talk to advisers to help them choose a program that is right for them. We have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33600]]></link><description><![CDATA[We encourage students to talk to advisers to help them choose a program that is right for them. We have four peer advisers that have all gone abroad, and they are very enthusiastic about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is well known to be a great comforter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marvin\'s Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marvin\'s Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of posterity is to look after itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of posterity is to look after itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon,  Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23328]]></link><description><![CDATA[A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon,  Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest of the mean,   And furbish falsehoods for a magazine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves "thinking people" respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20307]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves "thinking people" respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned to respond to certain sounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eye Contact: A method utilized by a single woman to communicate to a man that she is interested in him. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eye Contact: A method utilized by a single woman to communicate to a man that she is interested in him. Despite being advised to do so, many women have difficulty looking a man directly in the eyes, not necessarily due to the shyness, but usually due to the fact that a woman's eyes are not located in her chest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40181]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17536]]></link><description><![CDATA[True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20524]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. [Ger., Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25126]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. [Ger., Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18516]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12603]]></link><description><![CDATA[A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extremes meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extremes meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the outside portrait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and errors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be cheerful, if you are wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be cheerful, if you are wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You (reporters) should have printed what he meant, not what he said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23345]]></link><description><![CDATA[You (reporters) should have printed what he meant, not what he said.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55829]]></link><description><![CDATA[As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious. -King Richard II. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect year-on-year inflation this month (December) to stand at around 18 percent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect year-on-year inflation this month (December) to stand at around 18 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60368]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is the terminal incubator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29518]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is the terminal incubator.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to look at (sex) in the appropriate context. Because we are a Catholic university we tend to look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32164]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to look at (sex) in the appropriate context. Because we are a Catholic university we tend to look at it more as a Catholic issue than a social issue, but now we're starting to see how this Catholic issue fits into the larger social issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988  The Christian's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988  The Christian's life is lived in the open, not in a pious cubby-hole. As Christ gives Himself to feed us, so we have to incarnate something of His all-loving, all-sacrificing soul. If we do not, then we have not really received Him. That is the plain truth. It has been said that there are many ways and degrees of receiving the Blessed Sacrament. It really depends on how wide we open our hearts. A spiritually selfish communion is not a communion at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good for younger people to see how things were done before modern conveniences when you sat in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35662]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good for younger people to see how things were done before modern conveniences when you sat in the tractor exposed to the cold, heat and rain. These tractors were before air conditioning, heat and stereos. This also gives the older people an opportunity to relive memories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47790</guid></item></channel></rss>