<?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[More matter for a May morning. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55766]]></link><description><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so,  Having a thousand tongues t' allure him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45571]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so,  Having a thousand tongues t' allure him   And but one to bid him go.    When lips invite,     And eyes delight,      And cheeks as fresh as rose in June,       Persuade delay,--        What boots to say         Forego me now, come to me soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But genius must be born, and never can be taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17309]]></link><description><![CDATA[But genius must be born, and never can be taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be those who do most, dream most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22120]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be those who do most, dream most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14283]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25649]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start counting them on one hand, you don't need many fingers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974   The reason that the Ten Commandments are short and clear is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974   The reason that the Ten Commandments are short and clear is that they were handed down direct, and not through several committees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed.  You must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed.  You must not dare for shame to talk of mercy;   For your own reasons turn into your bosoms    As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blessed London raid was a slap in the face of the arrogant, crusader British rulers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blessed London raid was a slap in the face of the arrogant, crusader British rulers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What this system endeavours to do, ... is provide factors which explain the discretion and make it transparent and accountable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28457]]></link><description><![CDATA[What this system endeavours to do, ... is provide factors which explain the discretion and make it transparent and accountable (and) some parameters by which people can follow how they've reached their decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/563]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8815]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those holies of themselves a shape As of an arbor took. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those holies of themselves a shape As of an arbor took.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24335]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   "The Bible," we are told sometimes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   "The Bible," we are told sometimes, "gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be." Nonsense! It gives us no picture at all. It reveals to us a fact: it tells us what we really are; it says, This is the form in which God created you, to which He has restored you; this is the work which the Eternal Son, the God of Truth and Love, is continually carrying on within you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's weird. I mean, he's a dream, a fantasy, and, if he becomes real, it's like he's not mine anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53037]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's weird. I mean, he's a dream, a fantasy, and, if he becomes real, it's like he's not mine anymore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18498]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal a crown. The sin lessens as the guilt increases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24624]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be nice to get home but we still lost the game. We wanted to come out with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be nice to get home but we still lost the game. We wanted to come out with a win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58473]]></link><description><![CDATA[And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65621]]></link><description><![CDATA[For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some hoisted out the boats, and there was one That begged Pedrillo for an absolution  Who told him to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some hoisted out the boats, and there was one That begged Pedrillo for an absolution  Who told him to be damn'd,--in his confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,  Without one fool or flatterer at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61371]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,  Without one fool or flatterer at your board,   Without one hour of sickness or disgust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1717]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What! upon compulsion? No! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51301]]></link><description><![CDATA[What! upon compulsion? No!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think withpurpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21076]]></link><description><![CDATA[To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think withpurpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognizefailure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditionsserve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplishmasterfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; anoptimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22474]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; anoptimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades! Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades! Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46434]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's incredible to do that back to back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41227]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's incredible to do that back to back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obstinacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obstinacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is one before whom you may think aloud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16838]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9517]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That happens. We hit the ball well; that was the most hits we've had in a long time. W e ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32476]]></link><description><![CDATA[That happens. We hit the ball well; that was the most hits we've had in a long time. W e just didn't do the job on the base paths. Ten hits should mean 10 runs for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap  Drawn from Earth's prolific lap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap  Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9586]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that the president will listen to what Senator Frist has to say. I'm not saying he's going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that the president will listen to what Senator Frist has to say. I'm not saying he's going to agree with it. But what Senator Frist has had to say is weighty, and I think may bring us all together on this issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long. [A cool mouth, and warm feet, live long.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18920]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long. [A cool mouth, and warm feet, live long.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18920</guid></item></channel></rss>