<?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[The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go. [Ger., Der Mohr hat seine Arbeit gethan, der Mohr kann ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go. [Ger., Der Mohr hat seine Arbeit gethan, der Mohr kann gehen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26676]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66661]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Bush had an opportunity to capture or kill bin Laden, he took his focus off of him, outsourced the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1681]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Bush had an opportunity to capture or kill bin Laden, he took his focus off of him, outsourced the job to Afghan warlords and bin Laden escaped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes,  And he from the mighty doubter   The great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes,  And he from the mighty doubter   The great believer makes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day,  Naked and featherless, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day,  Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous,   Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital "T". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46553]]></link><description><![CDATA[When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital "T".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, reallybelieve, your mind will find the ways to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, reallybelieve, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution pavesthe way to solution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been a great year for me and the team. I have a super group of girls here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37470]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been a great year for me and the team. I have a super group of girls here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore they thought it good for hear a play And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,  Which bars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore they thought it good for hear a play And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,  Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The male stereotype makes masculinity not just a fact of biology but something that must be proved and re-proved, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The male stereotype makes masculinity not just a fact of biology but something that must be proved and re-proved, a continual quest for an ever-receding Holy Grail]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe it has been said that one copy of the "Times" contains more useful information than the whole of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe it has been said that one copy of the "Times" contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16149]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27097]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The homegrown tomato is best(in reference to choosing a marriage partner). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The homegrown tomato is best(in reference to choosing a marriage partner).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know we're all getting these telephone calls and I understand the public would like something done. But I personally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31141]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know we're all getting these telephone calls and I understand the public would like something done. But I personally would like things to settle down before we . . . start monkeying around with something that we don't understand the long-range consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good government is no substitute for self-government ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good government is no substitute for self-government]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right. And he goes about seeing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right. And he goes about seeing that things turn out that way -- with, of course, a lot of people suffering along the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3468]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock, to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind, you draw large and startling figures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. [Ger., Das beste Gluck, des Lebens schonste Kraft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. [Ger., Das beste Gluck, des Lebens schonste Kraft  Ermattet endlich.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the revenues were disappointing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34051]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the revenues were disappointing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51666]]></link><description><![CDATA[None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I date this girl for two years, and then the nagging starts: 'I wanna know your name!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65862]]></link><description><![CDATA[I date this girl for two years, and then the nagging starts: 'I wanna know your name!']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You meet a thousand times in life with those who, in dealing with any religious question, make at once their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6389]]></link><description><![CDATA[You meet a thousand times in life with those who, in dealing with any religious question, make at once their appeal to reason, and insist on forthwith rejecting aught that lies beyond its sphere -- without, however, being able to render any clear account of the nature and proper limits of the knowledge thus derived, or of the relation in which such knowledge stands to the religious needs of men. I would invite you, therefore, to inquire seriously whether such persons are not really bowing down before an idol of the mind, which, while itself of very questionable worth, demands as much implicit faith from its worshipers as divine revelation itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can.  Where he falls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27381]]></link><description><![CDATA[View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can.  Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone   Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wonder if the Christians made an impression out of all proportion to their numbers. Conviction in the midst of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6620]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wonder if the Christians made an impression out of all proportion to their numbers. Conviction in the midst of waverers, fiery energy in a world of disillusion, purity in an age of easy morals, firm brotherhood in a loose society, heroic courage in a time of persecution, formed a problem that could not be set aside, however polite society might affect to ignore it: and the religion of the future turned on the answer to it. Would the world be able to explain it better than the Christians, who said it was the living power of the risen Saviour?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a big difference from Conference USA. Not only is it competitive, but it is extremely deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29648]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a big difference from Conference USA. Not only is it competitive, but it is extremely deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carlos felt really strong at the foot of the decisive climb, so we put Calvente and Piil up front to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carlos felt really strong at the foot of the decisive climb, so we put Calvente and Piil up front to set the pace. With about six kilometers to go Carlos hit a bad patch and instead of risking a total meltdown, he made the sensible choice to ride at his own pace and he did actually manage to limit his time loss quite well. The other day Carlos was a bit better than Mancebo and today it was the other way round. The time differences are still very small. The way it looks right now Heras and Menchov are the strongest. But there's almost two full weeks left and a lot can happen in that time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53024]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to make sure that we are prepared when and if something does happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42353]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to make sure that we are prepared when and if something does happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All three times we played Christopher Newport, we got any shot we wanted. The other two times we didn't shoot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37919]]></link><description><![CDATA[All three times we played Christopher Newport, we got any shot we wanted. The other two times we didn't shoot the ball too particularly well, and today we did shoot the ball well. We've got some guys who can shoot it, and we are going to let them shoot it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60101]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore,-- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore,-- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!  Quoth the Raven "Nevermore!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4244</guid></item></channel></rss>