<?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[Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a priority. In states where the statute calls for victims of crime to retreat, we think that that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29262]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a priority. In states where the statute calls for victims of crime to retreat, we think that that's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11186]]></link><description><![CDATA[To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11617]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were constantly, Matho, a guest at my villa at Tivoli. Now you buy it--I have deceived you; I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14071]]></link><description><![CDATA[You were constantly, Matho, a guest at my villa at Tivoli. Now you buy it--I have deceived you; I have merely sold you what was already your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be illogical to say, 'Let's have a public meeting and say our offices are closed, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28330]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be illogical to say, 'Let's have a public meeting and say our offices are closed,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!--  The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62304]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!--  The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule   Our spirits from their urns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is far too important a thing ever to talk about. -Oscar Wilde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is far too important a thing ever to talk about. -Oscar Wilde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   It is not that we keep His commandments first, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   It is not that we keep His commandments first, and that then He loves; but that He loves us, and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace, which is revealed to the humble, but hidden from the proud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54352]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Testament is uniformly consistent in seeing something as being wrong in man himself... These analyses of man are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6758]]></link><description><![CDATA[The New Testament is uniformly consistent in seeing something as being wrong in man himself... These analyses of man are based on man's responsibility for his evil actions; they are not saying that it is simply his motions that have gone astray: it is man's will that is the central problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every game is going to be huge. Every team has their strong points. If you ask me, it's going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every game is going to be huge. Every team has their strong points. If you ask me, it's going to go down to the final week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What gem hath dropp'd, and sparkles o'er his chain? The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain,  That starts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58786]]></link><description><![CDATA[What gem hath dropp'd, and sparkles o'er his chain? The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain,  That starts at once--bright pure--from Pity's mine,   Already polish'd by the hand divine!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing again, with your dear voice revealing A tone  Of some world far from ours,   Where music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing again, with your dear voice revealing A tone  Of some world far from ours,   Where music and moonlight and feeling    Are one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240  As a man increases in moral strength of character, so his conscience becomes more sensitive; he realizes more keenly the distance that separates him from the ideal, and hence the weight of the feeling of guiltiness oppresses him ever more heavily. Growth in goodness does not, therefore, necessarily imply increased happiness, on the contrary, it may mean greater unhappiness. And his unhappiness increasing in proportion to the elevation of his ethical standards, a man's end is either Buddha or suicide if he knows no God; while if he knows God, it is despair or that conversion which, having sobbed away its tears on the Father's breast, thence derives ever new strength to fight the battle of life, sure of the final victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pretty mocking of the life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54714]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pretty mocking of the life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be...because of all I may become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be...because of all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2889]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think Joe has mentioned it and I've seen it written before, that our game may have cost them two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think Joe has mentioned it and I've seen it written before, that our game may have cost them two or three games. They couldn't get that game out of their system, it was such a tough loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Bush's strong effort in the state] is probably not going to help him win in California, which at this point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42440]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Bush's strong effort in the state] is probably not going to help him win in California, which at this point seems extremely unlikely, ... But it may force Gore to commit some more resources here to really try to solidify his California Latino base.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man-- Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan!  Born the free heir of nature's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man-- Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan!  Born the free heir of nature's wide domain,   To art's strict limits bounds his narrow'd reign;    Resigns his native rights for meaner things,     For Faith and Fetters, Laws and Priests and Kings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important because obviously I market my company through publicity. I make no bones about that. It (the claim) helps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32620]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important because obviously I market my company through publicity. I make no bones about that. It (the claim) helps symbolize how hard I've worked over the years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they will maintain the state of the world; And all their desire is in the work of their craft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62197]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they will maintain the state of the world; And all their desire is in the work of their craft.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to take a really hard look at transit -- something that's not mandated, but optional. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38544]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to take a really hard look at transit -- something that's not mandated, but optional.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48244]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not going to be above normal for much of the next week, and it's going to remain wet most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not going to be above normal for much of the next week, and it's going to remain wet most of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot name any programs that will be cut. In fact, we did not focus on that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot name any programs that will be cut. In fact, we did not focus on that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54866]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make money so that I can afford to go on creating more inventions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. [Fr., La ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. [Fr., La grammaire, qui sait regenter jusqu'aux rois,  Et les fait, la main haute, obeir a ses lois.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35096]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strategy is to frustrate the other team by trying to make them play in front of you, by not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strategy is to frustrate the other team by trying to make them play in front of you, by not giving them holes and by being as compact as possible. You have to move the ball even quicker than when you have 11 men because they are going to try and pressure you. There are opportunities to get at them but they did a good job of closing us down. But I think we did an equally good job of holding on to the ball when we did have possession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chickenpox is not necessarily a benign disease or a childhood rite of passage. We don't recommend parents expose their children. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chickenpox is not necessarily a benign disease or a childhood rite of passage. We don't recommend parents expose their children. The vaccine is best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were about 10 points they scored in a row because we weren't where we needed to be defensively. Consequently, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37922]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were about 10 points they scored in a row because we weren't where we needed to be defensively. Consequently, you get fouled calls that way, and it's pretty easy to score when you're standing there at the free throw line with nobody guarding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew someone who remembers eating Sunday afternoon with their family then snapping out of it on Thursday while driving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31728]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew someone who remembers eating Sunday afternoon with their family then snapping out of it on Thursday while driving home from work. Imagine not knowing what you did for four entire days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10255]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui  Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is going to steamroll, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40706]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is going to steamroll,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40706</guid></item></channel></rss>