<?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[As we were driving, we saw a sign that said "Watch for Rocks." Marta said it should read "Watch for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11727]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we were driving, we saw a sign that said "Watch for Rocks." Marta said it should read "Watch for Pretty Rocks." I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the corporate perspective, open source is a means, not an end, and if you confuse those you're going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34574]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the corporate perspective, open source is a means, not an end, and if you confuse those you're going to have problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64806]]></link><description><![CDATA[A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sort of takes the place of minutes. When there's any club business it's in the newsletter. It used to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sort of takes the place of minutes. When there's any club business it's in the newsletter. It used to be monthly but now it's quarterly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  Jesus hath many lovers of His heavenly kingdom, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  Jesus hath many lovers of His heavenly kingdom, but few bearers of His Cross. He hath many seekers of comfort, but few of tribulation. He findeth many companions of His table, but few of His fasting. All desire to rejoice with Him, few are willing to undergo anything for His sake. Many follow Jesus that they may eat of His loaves, but few that they may drink of the cup of His passion. Many are astonished at His miracles, few follow after the shame of His Cross. Many love Jesus so long as no adversities happen to them. Many praise Him and bless Him, so long as they receive any comforts from Him. But if Jesus hide Himself and withdraw a little while, they fall either into complaining or into too great dejection of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ask Joe to do a lot for us. He's going to get his touches and create a lot for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31692]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ask Joe to do a lot for us. He's going to get his touches and create a lot for us on offense. But if we (UW-L's guards) are able to hit our shots, that takes a lot of pressure off of him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must go in, the fog is rising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15241]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must go in, the fog is rising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, lay thy head upon my breast, And I will kiss thee into rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, lay thy head upon my breast, And I will kiss thee into rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  There is a misplaced sense of loyalty which makes many Christians feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  There is a misplaced sense of loyalty which makes many Christians feel reluctant to come out in open opposition to anything that calls itself by the same name, or uses words like "God" and "Christ"; even Christians who in practice dislike superstition as much as I do still often treat it as a minor aberration to be hushed up rather than a radical perversion to be denounced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24652]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had fun with it, ... I've been called everything from his grandson to his great-nephew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36788]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had fun with it, ... I've been called everything from his grandson to his great-nephew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An unexamined life is not worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1483]]></link><description><![CDATA[An unexamined life is not worth living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of creativity is cynicism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of creativity is cynicism]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26881]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their "Luck" arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guess if you can, choose if you dare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guess if you can, choose if you dare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disco is just jitterbug. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disco is just jitterbug.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Take courage, soul! Hold not thy strength in vain!  With faith o'ercome the steeps   Thy God hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14965]]></link><description><![CDATA["Take courage, soul! Hold not thy strength in vain!  With faith o'ercome the steeps   Thy God hath set for thee.    Beyond the Alpine summits of great pain     Lieth thine Italy."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm afraid that it will fail miserably. Somehow, we have to promote this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41005]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm afraid that it will fail miserably. Somehow, we have to promote this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57750]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63743]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep  Moans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep  Moans round with many voices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30145]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -George Bernard Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19036]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That water which wall from some Alpine height is dashed, broken, and will murmur loudly, but grows limpid by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52592]]></link><description><![CDATA[That water which wall from some Alpine height is dashed, broken, and will murmur loudly, but grows limpid by its fall. [It., Quell' onda, che ruina  Dalla pendice alpina,   Balza, si frange, e mormora    Ma limpida si fa.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46063]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. -Charles Kuralt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others again, perhaps truly awakened by the Spirit of God to devote themselves wholly to piety and the service of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others again, perhaps truly awakened by the Spirit of God to devote themselves wholly to piety and the service of God, yet making too much haste to have the glory of saints, the elements of fallen nature -- selfishness, envy, pride, and wrath -- could secretly go along with them. For to seek for eminence and significancy in grace is but like seeking for eminence and significancy in nature. And the old man can relish glory and distinction in religion as well as in common life, and will be content to undergo as many labours, pains, and self-denials for the sake of religious, as for the sake of secular glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people want to continue life in New Orleans because they love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33500]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people want to continue life in New Orleans because they love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51425]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4595]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood is more forgiving than the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hollywood is more forgiving than the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25679]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46678]]></link><description><![CDATA[All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are dedicating their energies to make this a very upscale and comfortable club without being pretentious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33732]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are dedicating their energies to make this a very upscale and comfortable club without being pretentious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36274]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36274</guid></item></channel></rss>