<?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[Eleanor Roosevelt, during the years that she was first lady had a home at Washington Square park in New York ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eleanor Roosevelt, during the years that she was first lady had a home at Washington Square park in New York City.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no reason to believe the two crimes are linked together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31043]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no reason to believe the two crimes are linked together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never express yourself more clearly than you think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never express yourself more clearly than you think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our food service director has testified at state and federal hearings concerning food service nutrition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our food service director has testified at state and federal hearings concerning food service nutrition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2786]]></link><description><![CDATA[What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45976]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Some there are who presume so far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That goes back to Rich (one of Harry's sons). He started doing it in the '80s, and after he passed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33306]]></link><description><![CDATA[That goes back to Rich (one of Harry's sons). He started doing it in the '80s, and after he passed, we kept on doing it out of respect for him. It was just something he wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou givest life and love for Greece and Right: I will stand by thee lest thou shouldst be weak,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou givest life and love for Greece and Right: I will stand by thee lest thou shouldst be weak,  Not weak of soul.--I will but hold in sight   Thy marvelous beauty.--Here is    She you seek!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14911]]></link><description><![CDATA[How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your bones have been my bedframe and your flesh has been my pillow. And I'm waiting for sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your bones have been my bedframe and your flesh has been my pillow. And I'm waiting for sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enough, with over-measure. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enough, with over-measure. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63997]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55561]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26317]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, which they take for granted - but his or her entertainment value]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66430]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her eye (I'm very fond of handsome eyes) Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire  Until she spoke, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her eye (I'm very fond of handsome eyes) Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire  Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise   Flash'd an expression more of pride than ire,    And love than either; and there would arise,     A something in them which was not desire,      But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul,       Which struggled through and chansten'd down the whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52518</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[Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not in the roll of common men. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55873]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not in the roll of common men. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such crimes has superstition caused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such crimes has superstition caused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You learn something every day if you pay attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24508]]></link><description><![CDATA[You learn something every day if you pay attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence, but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God, and bear the cost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The girls have worked hard and earned the right to play at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The girls have worked hard and earned the right to play at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise  By the stairway of surprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise  By the stairway of surprise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't seen this many people since I played bar mitzvahs years ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36483]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't seen this many people since I played bar mitzvahs years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be a good game. Hannan played us tough in the playoffs the last two years ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39216]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be a good game. Hannan played us tough in the playoffs the last two years ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ but we won both games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at once the ability AND the inclination of the mind to find knowledge, to pursue understanding, and out of knowledge and understanding, not out of received attitudes and values or emotional responses, however "worthy," to make judgments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us ro see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and watch me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/414]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and watch me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool's wild speech confounds the wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51076]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... the patriotic art of lying for one's country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12340]]></link><description><![CDATA[... the patriotic art of lying for one's country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59951]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51207]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18897</guid></item></channel></rss>