<?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[Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.   - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5023]]></link><description><![CDATA[You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.   - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't get a lot of pub. We're not in the media, we're not in the papers, so people figure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28590]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't get a lot of pub. We're not in the media, we're not in the papers, so people figure we're just sneaking by, getting lucky and winning games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou blossom! bright with autumn dew, And colour's with the heaven's own blue,  That openest when the quiet light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou blossom! bright with autumn dew, And colour's with the heaven's own blue,  That openest when the quiet light   Succeeds the keen and frosty night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vices of the time; vices of the man. [Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vices of the time; vices of the man. [Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10322]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had a run up for the yen. Now we're seeing a bit of profit taking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a run up for the yen. Now we're seeing a bit of profit taking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32688]]></link><description><![CDATA[But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only person I had any trouble with was Gloria Swanson, and her objections were completely off the wall. She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only person I had any trouble with was Gloria Swanson, and her objections were completely off the wall. She didn't have any legal leg to stand on. And she took me to court, saying that I libeled her. There's absolutely no libel in the chapter on her. She was the mistress of Joe Kennedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39869</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[Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be absolutely a mistake to think that you can just eat what you want and you're going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31453]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be absolutely a mistake to think that you can just eat what you want and you're going to be OK.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people died from no water and no food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people died from no water and no food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is a devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her mouth is a honey-blossom,  No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals,  Lurks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her mouth is a honey-blossom,  No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals,  Lurks a cruel bee that stings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither doesbathing-that's why we recommend it daily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21204]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither doesbathing-that's why we recommend it daily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hurt really bad. It was like a lot of pressure, burning. I kept on saying, 'Stop touching it.' It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39304]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hurt really bad. It was like a lot of pressure, burning. I kept on saying, 'Stop touching it.' It felt like people were squeezing on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advanced data services activity in the U.K. is following the classic pattern of adoption -- first gaining traction within the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advanced data services activity in the U.K. is following the classic pattern of adoption -- first gaining traction within the technologically savviest group and then spreading across the rest of the majority. Time plays a critical factor, as the services with an established utility from an extended period on the market are first to gain the most from the mainstream audience, who demand products and services that are relatively glitch-free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that when he speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still. -King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particulars of which it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particulars of which it is composed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He inspires people and organizations to better look to their future by becoming more creative. He actually does a painting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38136]]></link><description><![CDATA[He inspires people and organizations to better look to their future by becoming more creative. He actually does a painting and incorporates it into his talk. It's very unique.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54859]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teams (like Minnesota) that aren't playing for anything are always dangerous because they play loose. You always want to jump ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teams (like Minnesota) that aren't playing for anything are always dangerous because they play loose. You always want to jump on teams like that and not give them a chance. We knew we had to put the heat on them quick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15487]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power has no limits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power has no limits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world. [Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world. [Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou canst with hope; but ever pray Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay. Whatever is good to wish, ask that of heaven; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South,  And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South,  And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, meet   By the curves of a perfect mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18479]]></link><description><![CDATA[But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much  That I myself was to myself not mine,   Valuing of her--why she, O, she is fall'n    Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea     Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,      And salt too little which may season give       To her foul tainted flesh!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true University of these days is a Collection of Books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48662]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56408</guid></item></channel></rss>