<?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[Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, [our] leading indicators clearly show that the U.S. economy is in a window of vulnerability. This means that, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, [our] leading indicators clearly show that the U.S. economy is in a window of vulnerability. This means that, depending on the course of oil prices and geopolitical events, the economy can be easily tipped into a new recession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,  And heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,  And heard thy everlasting yarn confess   The Pains and Penalties of Idleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hat not much worse for wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18884]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hat not much worse for wear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either team can win on any given night. It depends on who's hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either team can win on any given night. It depends on who's hot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Brando ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Brando came out with only a sweatshirt and the town drooled over him. That shows how much Hollywood has progressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The success in this referendum, it isn't how many people are going to say 'yes' and how many people are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The success in this referendum, it isn't how many people are going to say 'yes' and how many people are going to say 'no,' ... The success is that all Iraqis ... found out that the polling station is the way to deal with the political problems in Iraq, to deal with the violence in Iraq.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56293]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64252]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2412]]></link><description><![CDATA[The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep down, I'm pretty superficial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the number of public hospitals continues to decline, the concern remains to what extent non-profit and for-profit hospitals are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33466]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the number of public hospitals continues to decline, the concern remains to what extent non-profit and for-profit hospitals are taking or will take on greater responsibilities as safety net providers, and to what degree their focus is on attracting the healthiest of Medicaid patients, leaving the sickest and costliest patients to the care of the remaining public or major safety net hospitals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was x years old in the year x^2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was x years old in the year x^2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16640]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7783]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving prejudices, reckless tongue, feverish desires, with all the damage they have caused to Christ's Body, be set aside, because -- because, in spite of all, he longs for God and Eternal Life: then he must set aside and forgive all that the impatience, selfishness, bitter and foolish speech, and sudden yieldings to base impulse by others have caused him to endure. Hardness is the one impossible thing. Harshness to others in those who ask and need the mercy of God sets up a conflict at the very heart of personality and shuts the door upon grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't see them not coming back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30748]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't see them not coming back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is the shadow of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is the shadow of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows where the skeletons are in the closets of (WTO) member states better than Pascal Lamy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows where the skeletons are in the closets of (WTO) member states better than Pascal Lamy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are probably extreme cases. More often, structures are calibrated so that assets pay down while a derivative amortizes. Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37702]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are probably extreme cases. More often, structures are calibrated so that assets pay down while a derivative amortizes. Most investors, who do not want their returns squeezed, would insist that the original transactions are modified to contain risks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine words dresse ill deedes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine words dresse ill deedes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19902]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the "market" in which the "workers" find "jobs," and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll put a spoke among your wheels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48621]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll put a spoke among your wheels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry in haste, repent at leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry in haste, repent at leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16526]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1305]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of imagination makes us infinite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of imagination makes us infinite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, That fools should be so deep-contemplative; And I did laugh sans intermission An ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55649]]></link><description><![CDATA[My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, That fools should be so deep-contemplative; And I did laugh sans intermission An hour by his dial. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even cities have their graves! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even cities have their graves!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His creativity is incredible. He's one of the best college players I've ever seen. He's a complete player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33944]]></link><description><![CDATA[His creativity is incredible. He's one of the best college players I've ever seen. He's a complete player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! -Much Ado ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55448]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eliot has never shied away from an opportunity to take on his opponents. We have requests from news organizations, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eliot has never shied away from an opportunity to take on his opponents. We have requests from news organizations, and Eliot looks forward to debating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm delighted we have a general manager who is in demand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm delighted we have a general manager who is in demand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall in love with someone who deserves your heart. Not someone who plays with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall in love with someone who deserves your heart. Not someone who plays with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62965</guid></item></channel></rss>