<?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[If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display.  And let thy strength be seen:   But O, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16581]]></link><description><![CDATA[If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display.  And let thy strength be seen:   But O, if Fortune fill thy sail    With more than a propitious gale,     Take half thy canvas in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In modern war, the longest purse decides oftener than the longest sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47265]]></link><description><![CDATA[In modern war, the longest purse decides oftener than the longest sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13648]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had discipline. It was very key for us. I had it with the football program. He had it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37064]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had discipline. It was very key for us. I had it with the football program. He had it in basketball, too. We ran a tight ship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men of action are dreamers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12819]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men of action are dreamers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't wait, ... I'm just hoping that they'll see I'm not making this up. People need to be held ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32216]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't wait, ... I'm just hoping that they'll see I'm not making this up. People need to be held accountable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62614]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the twelfth day I left it, my Unix gave to me: Twelve boards a-blowing; Eleven chips a-smoking; Ten ports ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60261]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the twelfth day I left it, my Unix gave to me: Twelve boards a-blowing; Eleven chips a-smoking; Ten ports a-jamming; Nine floppies frying; Eight gettys dying; Seven blown partitions; Six bad controllers; Five core dumps; Four bad blocks; Three heads crashed; Two faulty tapes; And a burnt-out V.D.T.  On the thirteenth day I started adapting my Nintendo for the VME bus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/850]]></link><description><![CDATA[This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3805]]></link><description><![CDATA[No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home; He was perfumed like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home; He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took 't away again. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish into the vast sea of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3943]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else, and it'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60971]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else, and it'll become like a wildfire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were leading Toms River South after the first quarter. It was a depth thing. They had the depth and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29500]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were leading Toms River South after the first quarter. It was a depth thing. They had the depth and were fresh in the third quarter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. -The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a universe within himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a universe within himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It also puts everyone on elevated alert ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that we have emergencies we might have to deal with, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36575]]></link><description><![CDATA[It also puts everyone on elevated alert ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that we have emergencies we might have to deal with, and the governor expects you're going to be ready to address those.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,  When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14246]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,  When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill   And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's history being made. More than that, I don't think you can send 140,000 soldiers out there, young guys from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37213]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's history being made. More than that, I don't think you can send 140,000 soldiers out there, young guys from Kansas and Alabama and all over the place, and not take some of the same risks that you're asking them to take.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58468]]></link><description><![CDATA[A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They don't understand the goal of the campaign, ... It is directed at men, to capture the attention of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36591]]></link><description><![CDATA[They don't understand the goal of the campaign, ... It is directed at men, to capture the attention of the macho Mexican man who uses the turtle eggs for sexual ends. The campaign tries to be sexy precisely to capture their attention. We are in a country where there are boring government campaigns every day that no one watches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can blind lover's eyes? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can blind lover's eyes?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it's a snug little island! A right little, tight little island! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23082]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it's a snug little island! A right little, tight little island!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawsuit, however just, can never be rightly prosecuted by any man, unless he treat his adversary with the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7465]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lawsuit, however just, can never be rightly prosecuted by any man, unless he treat his adversary with the same love and good will as if the business under controversy were already amicably settled and composed. Perhaps someone will interpose here that such moderation is so uniformly absent from any lawsuit that it would be a miracle if any such were found. Indeed, I admit that, as the customs of these times go, an example of an upright litigant is rare; but the thing itself, when not corrupted by the addition of anything evil, does not cease to be good and pure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray Him to give you what the Scriptures call "an honest and good heart," or "a perfect heart;" and, without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray Him to give you what the Scriptures call "an honest and good heart," or "a perfect heart;" and, without waiting, begin at once to obey Him with the best heart you have. Any obedience is better than none. You have to seek His face; obedience is the only way of seeing Him. All your duties are obediences. To do what He bids is to obey Him, and to obey Him is to approach Him. Every act of obedience is an approach -- an approach to Him who is not far off, though He seems so, but close behind this visible screen of things hiding Him from us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44644]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes snug ballads from a cart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes snug ballads from a cart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46462]]></link><description><![CDATA[To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't hit it too well in the first few holes, when there was no wind. But I got it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29585]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't hit it too well in the first few holes, when there was no wind. But I got it up and down a few times, just steady stuff. And as the wind started to pick up, I kind of started to focus a little bit better and hit it closer and made a few putts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23488]]></link><description><![CDATA[A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're Crockett and Tubbs from 'Miami Vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30514]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're Crockett and Tubbs from 'Miami Vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have the fingerprints of terrorist groups. But we do have the pictures of terrorist groups. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39210]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have the fingerprints of terrorist groups. But we do have the pictures of terrorist groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9054]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had to fight like hell and fighting like hell has made me what I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38667]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had to fight like hell and fighting like hell has made me what I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45847]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They weren't just people paying to see a show. They were part of it. There was such a euphoric feeling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40851]]></link><description><![CDATA[They weren't just people paying to see a show. They were part of it. There was such a euphoric feeling in that arena.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21863</guid></item></channel></rss>