<?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[True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25697]]></link><description><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7749]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the soul, or sink low, then we hear these whisperings of God. He is always whispering to us, only we do not always hear, because of the noise, hurry, and distraction which life causes as it rushes on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23906]]></link><description><![CDATA[MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days  That are no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days  That are no more, and shall no more return.   Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed;    I stay a little longer, as one stays     To cover up the embers that still burn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to see a band in New York. The lead singer got on the microphone, and he said How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44422]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to see a band in New York. The lead singer got on the microphone, and he said How many of you people feel like human beings tonight? Then he said How many of you feel like animals? And everyone cheered after the animals part. But the thing is, I cheered after the human being part because I did not know that there was a second part to the question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts. [Lat., Judicis officium est ut res ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts. [Lat., Judicis officium est ut res ita tempora rerum  Quaerere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's putting the ball over the plate, hitting his spots and trusting the defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31325]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's putting the ball over the plate, hitting his spots and trusting the defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65924]]></link><description><![CDATA[If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done.  [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22825]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done.  [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres.   Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,  Said, when he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13091]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,  Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,   "With our own feathers, not by others' hand    Are we now smitten."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the new arms race. Companies have become addicted to incentives and states have forgotten how to attract investment without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31271]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the new arms race. Companies have become addicted to incentives and states have forgotten how to attract investment without offering them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life--like being blown out as one blows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1255]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life--like being blown out as one blows out a light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20598]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her grief is real who grieves when no one is by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her grief is real who grieves when no one is by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14152]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them tofly in formation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21763]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them tofly in formation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60327]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As an example of the cooperation existing among the governments, the idea is also to establish and intensify cooperation between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42604]]></link><description><![CDATA[As an example of the cooperation existing among the governments, the idea is also to establish and intensify cooperation between chambers of commerce in both regions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O' the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9778]]></link><description><![CDATA[O' the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to conquer the city of Troy - all that, and ten years of perseverance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two words Ôinformation' and Ôcommunication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two words Ôinformation' and Ôcommunication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/226]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our best thoughts come from others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our best thoughts come from others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had a run up for the yen. Now we're seeing a bit of profit taking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a run up for the yen. Now we're seeing a bit of profit taking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. The state of our world is more humiliating to our reason than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. The state of our world is more humiliating to our reason than the doctrines of the Gospel. A reflecting Christian sees more to excite his astonishment, and to exercise his faith, in the state of things between Temple Bar [in Dublin] and St. Paul's [in London], than in what he reads from Genesis to Revelation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; What's genuine, shall posterity inherit.  [Ger., Was glanzt ist fur den ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47840]]></link><description><![CDATA[What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; What's genuine, shall posterity inherit.  [Ger., Was glanzt ist fur den Augenblick geboren;   Das Aechte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1773]]></link><description><![CDATA[A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11193]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24232]]></link><description><![CDATA[…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term ‘philosopher’.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They needed a school teacher to organize things, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37757]]></link><description><![CDATA[They needed a school teacher to organize things,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. -- Orville Wright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15205]]></link><description><![CDATA[No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. -- Orville Wright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16690]]></link><description><![CDATA[No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not at all surprised that the rebels are not accepting the peace deal. Why should they? It's never going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not at all surprised that the rebels are not accepting the peace deal. Why should they? It's never going to be implemented. The government is just going to undermine it every way they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5544]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65126</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[No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19864]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest,  Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My reputation grows with every failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53867]]></link><description><![CDATA[My reputation grows with every failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We simply blew opportunities, especially early in the game, to get a double digit lead. This allowed Harrisburg to stay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39900]]></link><description><![CDATA[We simply blew opportunities, especially early in the game, to get a double digit lead. This allowed Harrisburg to stay close,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17901]]></link><description><![CDATA[So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17901</guid></item></channel></rss>