<?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[[The Log Cabin Republicans'] rhetoric is disingenuous, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31197]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The Log Cabin Republicans'] rhetoric is disingenuous,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had to defend themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41538]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had to defend themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our common life is not a common course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6928]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our common life is not a common course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore!  It bears: "Eternity, be thou   My refuge!" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14085]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore!  It bears: "Eternity, be thou   My refuge!" and no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future is not a gift -- it is an achievement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/367]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future is not a gift -- it is an achievement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36274]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a third of the game, ... And special teams determine field position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29867]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a third of the game, ... And special teams determine field position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66315]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing.   - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing.   - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1057]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24196]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From an R&D perspective, they've actually got the first or second largest cancer pipeline in the world. So, they're moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35455]]></link><description><![CDATA[From an R&D perspective, they've actually got the first or second largest cancer pipeline in the world. So, they're moving in the right direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation his defense ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation his defense]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19473]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The journey is the reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The journey is the reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye  Could reach, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25451]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye  Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping   In sight, then lost amidst the forestry    Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping     On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy;      A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown       On a fool's head--and there is London Town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have always been praying for India-Pakistan friendship and I think now those prayers are being answered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36728]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have always been praying for India-Pakistan friendship and I think now those prayers are being answered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, there would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, there would have been wording such as 'the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' - July 27, 1992Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of our guys needed to win a couple of matches. Some guys who were fifth could have been third. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of our guys needed to win a couple of matches. Some guys who were fifth could have been third.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Old Shepherd A SHEPHERD, watching his Ass feeding in a meadow, was alarmed allof a sudden ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Old Shepherd A SHEPHERD, watching his Ass feeding in a meadow, was alarmed allof a sudden by the cries of the enemy. He appealed to the Ass tofly with him, lest they should both be captured, but the animallazily replied, Why should I, pray? Do you think it likely theconqueror will place on me two sets of panniers?' No, rejoinedthe Shepherd. Then, said the Ass, as long as I carry thepanniers, what matters it to me whom I serve?' In a change of government the poor change nothing beyond the name of their master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's sometimes a difficult thing for family members to understand. The process can be vastly different, depending on the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29341]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's sometimes a difficult thing for family members to understand. The process can be vastly different, depending on the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35887]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll prove in only seven days that I can make you a new man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll prove in only seven days that I can make you a new man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!  What an inviting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!  What an inviting hell invented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46207]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new;  Ah! still awhile the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new;  Ah! still awhile the old thought retain,   And yet consider it again!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The findings show that we have a significant majority of respondents who have been with us for more than 10 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The findings show that we have a significant majority of respondents who have been with us for more than 10 years, so we are very good at keeping hold of people once they come to us. Even so, issues were raised about the availability of career breaks, flexible working and working from home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. - Nursery Rhymes of England, 1844. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46274]]></link><description><![CDATA[If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. - Nursery Rhymes of England, 1844.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was an auto industry correction and a high tech inventory correction, and if we can get through that without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37050]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was an auto industry correction and a high tech inventory correction, and if we can get through that without tipping the economy into a recession then we can get through this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26893]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I played ball, I didn't play for fun... It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57699]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I played ball, I didn't play for fun... It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36599]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19463]]></link><description><![CDATA[A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think any of us would hesitate. I might pack differently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33754]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think any of us would hesitate. I might pack differently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The recommendation is that there would be a garage, centrally located in the Short North. And that it would hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The recommendation is that there would be a garage, centrally located in the Short North. And that it would hold at least 500 cars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this can happen to Jim, what chance do the rest of us have? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31623]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this can happen to Jim, what chance do the rest of us have?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8505]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts, but beauty also lulls. Early associations endear, but they also confuse. Through that beautiful solemnity, the transporting or horrifying realities of which the Book tells may come to us blunted and disarmed, and we may only sigh with tranquil veneration when we ought to be burning with shame, or struck dumb with terror, or carried out of ourselves by ravishing hopes and adorations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to know you can beat a team you've never beaten before. It's very nice because you work on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31207]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to know you can beat a team you've never beaten before. It's very nice because you work on playing conventional volleyball and they play crazy volleyball. It frustrates the fool out of you. But we worked hard, persevering, passing and not giving up even though they dug us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31207</guid></item></channel></rss>