<?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[It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48658]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My lovely living Boy, My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy.   - Guillaume de Salluste ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5906]]></link><description><![CDATA[My lovely living Boy, My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1965]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just takes you back. It's just old-fashioned fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35388]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just takes you back. It's just old-fashioned fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them through a bad time. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart is the only broken instrument that works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart is the only broken instrument that works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28479]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And out of darkness came the hands That reach thro' nature, moulding men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11090]]></link><description><![CDATA[And out of darkness came the hands That reach thro' nature, moulding men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best I Ever Had ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Best I Ever Had]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those first seven 3-point shots were basically the ball game. We had to fight our best just to get back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those first seven 3-point shots were basically the ball game. We had to fight our best just to get back in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20507]]></link><description><![CDATA[To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel more at home and more confident with those guys here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33541]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel more at home and more confident with those guys here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11063]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems almost within reach. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. De Tocqueville in his researches into the state of society in France before the revolution was struck by the discovery that "in no one of the periods which have followed the Revolution of 1789 has the national prosperity of France augmented more rapidly than it did in the twenty years preceding that event." He is forced to conclude that "the French found their position the more intolerable the better it became.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do think there's probably a lot of questions among (US ) producers about what all this means. There's going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do think there's probably a lot of questions among (US ) producers about what all this means. There's going to be an increased level of concern in the (WTO) process going forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy well-being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy well-being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows  To beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54927]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows  To beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If customers are able to reduce their water use, then Lake Decatur may not drop to a more critical level. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39690]]></link><description><![CDATA[If customers are able to reduce their water use, then Lake Decatur may not drop to a more critical level. If the lake level falls another foot, the city will have to implement mandatory water conservation measures, which have not been done since the drought of 1988.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is always there but the pockets change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is always there but the pockets change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is absolutely no justification for the actions you have taken, ... You have already defamed the uniform. Do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35870]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is absolutely no justification for the actions you have taken, ... You have already defamed the uniform. Do not drench it with dishonor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simplest things are often the truest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56333]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simplest things are often the truest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45133]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63153]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A land of levity is a land of guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18483]]></link><description><![CDATA[A land of levity is a land of guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually hasa son who thinks he's wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21865]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually hasa son who thinks he's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw 'em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O wild and wondrous midnight, There is a might in thee  To make the charmed body   Almost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27454]]></link><description><![CDATA[O wild and wondrous midnight, There is a might in thee  To make the charmed body   Almost like spirit be,    And give it some faint glimpses     Of immortality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be aristocracy the only joy: Let commerce perish--let the world expire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be aristocracy the only joy: Let commerce perish--let the world expire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let it alone. Let it pass by. [Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let it alone. Let it pass by. [Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losing was a shock, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losing was a shock,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53065]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first week, I dwelled on my stats. This week, in the second half, that helped me out. I didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first week, I dwelled on my stats. This week, in the second half, that helped me out. I didn't worry about it. I'm feeling more comfortable every week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phidias made the statue of Venue at Elis with one foot upon the shell of a tortoise, to signify two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Phidias made the statue of Venue at Elis with one foot upon the shell of a tortoise, to signify two great duties of a virtuous woman, which are to keep home and be silent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4805]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58498]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises,  . . . Epicuri de grege porcum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slackers aren't stupid, they are just too lazy to do anything about their situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slackers aren't stupid, they are just too lazy to do anything about their situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56537</guid></item></channel></rss>