<?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[Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them there and they don't get out and interact with actual flesh-and-blood humans -- you know the answer before I say it -- that's not good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48063]]></link><description><![CDATA[To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64608]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. [Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis erit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10667]]></link><description><![CDATA[The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. [Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis erit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25181]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to your universe is that you can choose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to your universe is that you can choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was pretty neat. At the state tournament, they also got the sportsmanship award, which was the first time ever. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38648]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was pretty neat. At the state tournament, they also got the sportsmanship award, which was the first time ever. They were fun to watch play. When they received that award, they were all dressed up in red and white.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37230]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64238]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  Do you think the work God gives us to do is never easy? Jesus says ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  Do you think the work God gives us to do is never easy? Jesus says His yoke is easy, His burden is light. People sometimes refuse to do God's work just because it is easy. This is sometimes because they cannot believe that easy work is His work; but there may be a very bad pride in it... Some, again, accept it with half a heart and do it with half a hand. But however easy any work may be, it can not be well done without taking thought about it. And such people, instead of taking thought about their work, generally take thought about the morrow, in which no work can be done any more than in yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After my injury, it could have gone either way, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37370]]></link><description><![CDATA[After my injury, it could have gone either way,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45282]]></link><description><![CDATA[What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13729]]></link><description><![CDATA[False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I look at the Hudson River, I can't help but feel overwhelmed by its beauty and responsible for its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33179]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I look at the Hudson River, I can't help but feel overwhelmed by its beauty and responsible for its protection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have played six games this season but this is the first time we have played well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40196]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have played six games this season but this is the first time we have played well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -Timothy Leary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -Timothy Leary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd.   Lady, it is to be presumed,    Though art's hid causes are not found,     All is not sweet, all is not sound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66656]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she didn't enjoy it, she would gauze it as her duty to do what she vowed to do,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was overwhelmed not only with his story but by the way he told it. You could have heard a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was overwhelmed not only with his story but by the way he told it. You could have heard a pin drop in that room when he finished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My prediction? This move will be completely forgotten. Few to nobody will use it. And, 6 to 12 months from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42165]]></link><description><![CDATA[My prediction? This move will be completely forgotten. Few to nobody will use it. And, 6 to 12 months from now, Oracle will have to give a real response to the open-source threat it faces. Tossing a lightweight database in front of a fast-moving market that wants free, open, and killer databases just won't fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This may be one of those years in the stock market where you'll want to sell on Memorial Day and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38861]]></link><description><![CDATA[This may be one of those years in the stock market where you'll want to sell on Memorial Day and go away until Labor Day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[It's a model that Alfred Hitchcock drew on for many of his movies.] If there was a film that inspired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37555]]></link><description><![CDATA[[It's a model that Alfred Hitchcock drew on for many of his movies.] If there was a film that inspired me in writing 'Panic,' it was 'North by Northwest,' ... Those are my favorite Hitchcock films -- the ones where ordinary, everyday people are going about their lives, and they take this dramatic left turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one;  Yet the light of the bright world dies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one;  Yet the light of the bright world dies   With the dying sun.    The mind has a thousand eyes,     And the heart but one:      Yet the light of a whole life dies       When love is done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been an attorney, residing in Ellis County for 10 years. And like most of you my experience goes beyond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32431]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been an attorney, residing in Ellis County for 10 years. And like most of you my experience goes beyond Ellis County. Unlike my opponent who only had two years of experience when he was first elected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what nerves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what nerves let you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth--the true poet is very near the oracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth--the true poet is very near the oracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fish adores the bait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fish adores the bait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why and Wherefore set out one day, To hunt for a wild Negation.  They agreed to meet at a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why and Wherefore set out one day, To hunt for a wild Negation.  They agreed to meet at a cool retreat   On the Point of Interrogation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fletcher is accompanying his wife, who is currently unwell, on a flight to South Africa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fletcher is accompanying his wife, who is currently unwell, on a flight to South Africa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56150]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't know a woman until you have a letter from her ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27056]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't know a woman until you have a letter from her]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, my conscience will be against it, ... I'm asking for a chance to look at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, my conscience will be against it, ... I'm asking for a chance to look at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing,  Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9923]]></link><description><![CDATA[But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing,  Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne,   The Cherub Contemplation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't mind playing tough teams to start. This is only Game 1, and we still have a long way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't mind playing tough teams to start. This is only Game 1, and we still have a long way to go. We are going to evaluate our film and go from there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At that time we could not use the federal government's marijuana to show that it might be beneficial because NIDA ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33824]]></link><description><![CDATA[At that time we could not use the federal government's marijuana to show that it might be beneficial because NIDA has a mandate from Congress that they could only supply marijuana for research to show that it might be dangerous. Subsequently NIDA has changed their mechanism so we can look for benefit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended. - Epistle to a Young Friend, An.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55596</guid></item></channel></rss>