<?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[Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think. - The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortly Montagu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity.  The August-born without this stone   'Tis said must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity.  The August-born without this stone   'Tis said must live unloved and lone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest So wonderfully built among the reeds  Of the lagoon, that fences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60480]]></link><description><![CDATA[White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest So wonderfully built among the reeds  Of the lagoon, that fences thee and feeds,   As sayeth thy old historian and thy guest!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The project continues to work for us and for the developer as the pieces come together, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36889]]></link><description><![CDATA[The project continues to work for us and for the developer as the pieces come together,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45163]]></link><description><![CDATA[A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going on to see all these good things that the company and my team did without me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never get enough of what you don't want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21616]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never get enough of what you don't want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13013]]></link><description><![CDATA[No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10545]]></link><description><![CDATA[And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your father used to come home to my mother, and why may not I be a chippe of the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your father used to come home to my mother, and why may not I be a chippe of the same block out of which you two were cutte?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25719]]></link><description><![CDATA[If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus--Charles the First, his Cromwell--and George the Third--("Treason!" shouted the Speaker) may profit by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus--Charles the First, his Cromwell--and George the Third--("Treason!" shouted the Speaker) may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and the SnakeOne winter a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and the SnakeOne winter a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on it, and taking it up, placed it in his bosom. The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound. Oh, cried the Farmer with his last breath, I am rightly served for pitying a scoundrel. The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/360]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61598]]></link><description><![CDATA[All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better. -Tryon Edwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2608]]></link><description><![CDATA[To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better. -Tryon Edwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the key to contentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the key to contentment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11996]]></link><description><![CDATA[This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath indeed better bettered expectation. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55412]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath indeed better bettered expectation. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody expects it to take real long, but it takes a while to build a program anywhere. In addition, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody expects it to take real long, but it takes a while to build a program anywhere. In addition, we expanded this league. The good news is we're getting better. The bad news is, so is everybody else in this league. We've lost an awful lot of close games, but we're very, very close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost  Every time we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit,' we mean that we believe that there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost  Every time we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit,' we mean that we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64036]]></link><description><![CDATA[His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This gives us a very persistent presence in these portals and browsers, with voice-over-IP [Internet protocol], ... The ability to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42515]]></link><description><![CDATA[This gives us a very persistent presence in these portals and browsers, with voice-over-IP [Internet protocol], ... The ability to attach other services and applications to that voice service was very much a part of our strategy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's high-energy, a 60-minute guy. He calls for the ball, he wants the ball every single snap. He's always looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30525]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's high-energy, a 60-minute guy. He calls for the ball, he wants the ball every single snap. He's always looking to make a big play, make something happen with the ball. He wants to get in the end zone; that's his goal every time he steps on the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There must be a constant and increasing appreciation that though sin still remains it does not have the mastery. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8339]]></link><description><![CDATA[There must be a constant and increasing appreciation that though sin still remains it does not have the mastery. There is a total difference between surviving sin and reigning sin, the regenerate in conflict with sin and the unregenerate complacent to sin. It is one thing for sin to live in us: it is another for us to live in sin. It is of paramount concern for the Christian and for the interests of his sanctification that he should know that sin does not have the dominion over him, that the forces of redeeming, regenerative, and sanctifying grace have been brought to bear upon him in that which is central in his moral and spiritual being, that he is the habitation of God through the Spirit, and that Christ has been formed in him the hope of glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20684]]></link><description><![CDATA[And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not clear that the Fed is going to move in June. Perhaps, the Fed moves late summer/early fall, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not clear that the Fed is going to move in June. Perhaps, the Fed moves late summer/early fall, if even then. What is clear is that the economy's momentum, which was quite strong in the first quarter, is indeed slowing down It is also clear that profit momentum for the year is going to be slow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41882</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[That beautiful season . . . the Summer of All-Saints!  Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58266]]></link><description><![CDATA[That beautiful season . . . the Summer of All-Saints!  Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape   Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have a great idea, have a lot of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66841]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have a great idea, have a lot of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56958]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of this airplane... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1972]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of this airplane...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21233]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22966]]></link><description><![CDATA[INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22966</guid></item></channel></rss>