<?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 best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30126]]></link><description><![CDATA[the best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one's ever going to shag you if you cry all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41104]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one's ever going to shag you if you cry all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer — anything but a fighter. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer — anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/442]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a greedy eating horse a short halter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49998]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a greedy eating horse a short halter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,  Signifying nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51386]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,  Signifying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872   Infant Baptism... has been a witness for the Son of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872   Infant Baptism... has been a witness for the Son of Man and the universality of His Kingdom, like no other. It has taught parents that to bring children into the world is not a horrible crime. It has led them to see Christ and His redemption of humanity through all the mists of our teachings and our qualifications. It has explained the nature of His Kingdom to the hearts even of the poorest. Christ has preached at the fonts, when we have been darkening counsel in the pulpits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Charger AN ASS congratulated a Horse on being so ungrudgingly andcarefully provided for, while he himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Charger AN ASS congratulated a Horse on being so ungrudgingly andcarefully provided for, while he himself had scarcely enough toeat and not even that without hard work. But when war broke out,a heavily armed soldier mounted the Horse, and riding him to thecharge, rushed into the very midst of the enemy. The Horse waswounded and fell dead on the battlefield. Then the Ass, seeingall these things, changed his mind, and commiserated the Horse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Price stability, exchange rate stability, consistency of economic policy. That is all taking place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Price stability, exchange rate stability, consistency of economic policy. That is all taking place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men who make history have not time to write it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men who make history have not time to write it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48691]]></link><description><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[master of the art of lovemaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34820]]></link><description><![CDATA[master of the art of lovemaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With corporate balance sheets and cash flow strong, we look for investment spending to remain strong, pushing up growth in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39111]]></link><description><![CDATA[With corporate balance sheets and cash flow strong, we look for investment spending to remain strong, pushing up growth in the capital stock and adding to labor productivity growth in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two cannot fall out if one does not choose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two cannot fall out if one does not choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. -Ken Burns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, the focus can shift back to that issue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, the focus can shift back to that issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state puts a lot of mandates on the town, not just for education, ... Our infrastructure is deteriorating because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state puts a lot of mandates on the town, not just for education, ... Our infrastructure is deteriorating because those costs are considered discretionary and all we have to cut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vaine is the mill-clacke, if the Miller his hearing lack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49553]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vaine is the mill-clacke, if the Miller his hearing lack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mom always says I could sing before I could talk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42662]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mom always says I could sing before I could talk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong you cannot be too conservative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47612]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong you cannot be too conservative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52123]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, tell me whence Love cometh! Love comes uncall'd, unsent.  Oh, tell me where Love goeth!   That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, tell me whence Love cometh! Love comes uncall'd, unsent.  Oh, tell me where Love goeth!   That was not Love that went.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't throw a good ball, ... ...That's the sort of turnover you can't give up at crucial times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32359]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't throw a good ball, ... ...That's the sort of turnover you can't give up at crucial times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66121]]></link><description><![CDATA[A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we,  As ever did sing in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we,  As ever did sing in a hempen string   Under the gallow-tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love me, I'll be anyobdy you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love me, I'll be anyobdy you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13968]]></link><description><![CDATA[In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10441]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn some grand mistake  Casts off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48726]]></link><description><![CDATA[But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn some grand mistake  Casts off its bright skin yearly like a snake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. [Lat., Nemo unquam sine magna spe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20606]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. [Lat., Nemo unquam sine magna spe immortalitatatis se pro patria offerret ad mortem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love gives itself; it is not bought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love gives itself; it is not bought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am pleased to be third because this is my best qualifying position so far this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am pleased to be third because this is my best qualifying position so far this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had more chances tonight. The defense got the ball back for us all night, and we were able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32760]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had more chances tonight. The defense got the ball back for us all night, and we were able to make something happen with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32760</guid></item></channel></rss>