<?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[We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10451]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58163]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got to know David Allan through a friend about five years ago. When he heard about all our troubles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41024]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got to know David Allan through a friend about five years ago. When he heard about all our troubles with the hurricanes, he decided to do us a favor and perform here. He hasn't played a place this small in 20 years. He might have a tough guy image, but he has a lot of heart, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44423]]></link><description><![CDATA[One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the time of year it always happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39775]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the time of year it always happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18118]]></link><description><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will make an end of my dinner--there's pippins and seese to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13271]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will make an end of my dinner--there's pippins and seese to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This gives us a very persistent presence in these portals and browsers, with voice-over-IP [Internet protocol], ... The ability to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42515]]></link><description><![CDATA[This gives us a very persistent presence in these portals and browsers, with voice-over-IP [Internet protocol], ... The ability to attach other services and applications to that voice service was very much a part of our strategy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to see the face than to hear the name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to see the face than to hear the name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've done this all on their own. I have a system that they've bought into. It's a defensive in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40161]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've done this all on their own. I have a system that they've bought into. It's a defensive in your face system. It's a fun game to watch and a fun game to play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Trials ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human mortals. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human mortals. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3721]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,  Working so grossly in a natural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,  Working so grossly in a natural cause   That admiration did not whoop at them;    But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in     Wonder to wait on treason and on murder;      And whatsoever cunning fiend it was       That wrought upon thee so preposterously        Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth,  That they might touch the hearts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56460]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth,  That they might touch the hearts of men,   And bring them back to heaven again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider myself more exportant than important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55054]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider myself more exportant than important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55054</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/7761]]></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  He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were hearing what some of their CD's, what they were saying on some of their CD's and frankly it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42496]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were hearing what some of their CD's, what they were saying on some of their CD's and frankly it got the ire up a little bit of some of the local police agencies. And that really helped to motivate everyone in terms of getting going on this investigation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14446]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18541]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through  The growing waters; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through  The growing waters; it unmans one quite,   Especially when life is rather new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest eloquence is that which gets things done: the worst is that which delays them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest eloquence is that which gets things done: the worst is that which delays them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being happy with someone doesn't mean that everything about them is perfect, they can't be. It means that we know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being happy with someone doesn't mean that everything about them is perfect, they can't be. It means that we know no one is perfect including ourselves so we look beyond someones imperfections and concentrate on their perfections and our happiest shines thru. As long as one's HEART is in the right place and is perfect for your liking then everything else that is near perfect or perfect about them is a bonus and everything else....secondary, they don't matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O ye who teach the ingenuous youth of nations-- Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain;  I pray ye flog ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48754]]></link><description><![CDATA[O ye who teach the ingenuous youth of nations-- Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain;  I pray ye flog them upon all occasions,   It mends their morals--never mind the pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him. [Ger., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53882]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him. [Ger., Ich halte nichts von dem, der von sich denkt  Wie ihn das Volk vielleicht erheben mochte.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28128]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust over like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it sags like a heavy load. Or does it just explode?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3113]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;  Others aver, that he to Handel   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;  Others aver, that he to Handel   Is scarcely fit to hold a Candle:    Strange all this difference should be,     'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational;  But he, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational;  But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues,   And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because a dress is red satin doesn't mean it will come off easily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because a dress is red satin doesn't mean it will come off easily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52256]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losse embraceth shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losse embraceth shame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes in the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45216]]></link><description><![CDATA[In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far from being the result of government, has been made entirely without its aid and in the face if its constant and bitter opposition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58452</guid></item></channel></rss>