<?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[Your supper is like the Hidalgo's dinner; very little meat, and a great deal of tablecloth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your supper is like the Hidalgo's dinner; very little meat, and a great deal of tablecloth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw  Virtue in her own shape how lovely; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw  Virtue in her own shape how lovely; saw   And pined his loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of a great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle, and no staffe to spin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49054]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of a great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle, and no staffe to spin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15335]]></link><description><![CDATA[On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46814]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20945]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works and Thoughts, if they are always to be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5514]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works and Thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17707]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49014]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension  A comprehended god is no god. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension  A comprehended god is no god.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1958]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be happy where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64784]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be happy where you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . th' approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews with spangles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59930]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . th' approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade,   And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid and stable business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63554]]></link><description><![CDATA[The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid and stable business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through  And keep their impious turbans on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through  And keep their impious turbans on without   Good morrow to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very high-energy activity. It's a workout. By the time you finish class, you're tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33876]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very high-energy activity. It's a workout. By the time you finish class, you're tired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66447]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins,  Pity and woe! for such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins,  Pity and woe! for such a mind   Is soft contemplative, and kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59706]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horse-shoe nail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have absolutely no evidence that shows that the China safeguards have had any beneficial impact on the U.S. textile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34649]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have absolutely no evidence that shows that the China safeguards have had any beneficial impact on the U.S. textile industry in terms of increasing orders and production.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins  (Not of old victors, all whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42956]]></link><description><![CDATA[How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins  (Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests   Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines,    But) of find unclipt gold, where dully rests     Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines,      Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;--       Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461  There was no point of controversy between Jesus and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461  There was no point of controversy between Jesus and the Jews; Jesus brought no new doctrine unto them. Jesus said, What the masters in Israel teach, what the Pharisees and the Scribes teach, is perfectly correct. There was no dogma which was the cause of controversy between Jesus and the nation; there was no new custom that Jesus introduced: He went into the Temple every day, He observed the ordinances and festivals of Israel. What was the subject of dispute and controversy between Jesus and the Jews? It was no doctrine, it was no innovation, it was Jesus Himself whom they rejected. There was an antipathy in them to the person of Jesus: it was the Lord Himself whom they hated, because they hated the Father... But Jesus knew... that it was because He was one with the Father, because He was the express image of His being, because He was the perfect manifestation of the character of God, that they hated Him; and therefore Jesus was pained, not because they hated Him, but because they hated in Him the Father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there:  Then looking up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there:  Then looking up and round the prospect wide,   When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very staff of my age, my very prop. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55572]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very staff of my age, my very prop. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some have meat but cannot eat; Some could eat but have no meat;  We have meat and can all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some have meat but cannot eat; Some could eat but have no meat;  We have meat and can all eat;   Blest, therefore, be God for our meat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the negative perception is the cost of doing business the way they're doing business, ... They're marketing hype. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the negative perception is the cost of doing business the way they're doing business, ... They're marketing hype. They're selling the belief that their drug is superior, but they're not marketing superior drugs. If they want to improve the public's perception of their work, then they better improve their work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15196]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. -- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M Post-It Notepads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a farce. If they couldn't form a government till now, how will they lead a country? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28533]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a farce. If they couldn't form a government till now, how will they lead a country?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even with our best efforts to motivate our folks, it was difficult to get people out to vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even with our best efforts to motivate our folks, it was difficult to get people out to vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For man is man, and master of his fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51695]]></link><description><![CDATA[For man is man, and master of his fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love him who tells you your faults in private. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love him who tells you your faults in private.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2741]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We closed 2001 with exceptional financial results, achieving record revenues, strong cash flow and enhanced operational profitability while lowering our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38627]]></link><description><![CDATA[We closed 2001 with exceptional financial results, achieving record revenues, strong cash flow and enhanced operational profitability while lowering our debt by more than $430 million,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's physical hunger does not prove that that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8552]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's physical hunger does not prove that that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But surely a man's hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating, and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist. In the same way, though I do not believe (I wish I did) that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will. A man may love a women and not win her; but it would be very odd if the phenomenon called "falling in love" occurred in a sexless world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She just wore enough for modesty; no more! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27754]]></link><description><![CDATA[She just wore enough for modesty; no more!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5359]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly ;for one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12600]]></link><description><![CDATA[When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13810]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say to be a leader, not a follower. I say that a follower of Jesus is the most notable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53773]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say to be a leader, not a follower. I say that a follower of Jesus is the most notable position one could hold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53773</guid></item></channel></rss>