<?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[A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan. [Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4237]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan. [Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3995]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56870]]></link><description><![CDATA[The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11304]]></link><description><![CDATA[I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50384]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gen. Alexander will have to clean up the mess. We need to know if the money is being properly spent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gen. Alexander will have to clean up the mess. We need to know if the money is being properly spent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of schools are looking at open source ? budgets come into play here. Microsoft licensing takes a big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42417]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of schools are looking at open source ? budgets come into play here. Microsoft licensing takes a big chunk out of schools budgets. The biggest issue is cost, basically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cisco has an excellent track record of meeting analysts' expectations and the probability of them missing the estimate is low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cisco has an excellent track record of meeting analysts' expectations and the probability of them missing the estimate is low.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is awesome. Everybody gets excited about this. It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37009]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is awesome. Everybody gets excited about this. It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Framed in the prodigality of nature. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Framed in the prodigality of nature. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58658]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47052]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are uneasy, . . . you never sailed with me before, I see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15514]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are uneasy, . . . you never sailed with me before, I see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1072]]></link><description><![CDATA[When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley. - "To A Mouse". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley. - "To A Mouse".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is popular deserves attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is popular deserves attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60905]]></link><description><![CDATA[People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unkindness may do much; And his unkindness may defeat my life,  But never taint my love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unkindness may do much; And his unkindness may defeat my life,  But never taint my love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have cheveril consciences that will stretch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9788]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And think of the appeal Christ made to men and women! He had many, but His favourite was to their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7449]]></link><description><![CDATA[And think of the appeal Christ made to men and women! He had many, but His favourite was to their chivalry and valour. Often He underlines the difficulties of discipleship, warns us what it will cost, that it means risk and loss and sacrifice, and pulling hard against fierce currents; and then He turns and looks at us, with that honouring trust of His in us that sets the blood tingling and makes the cheeks flush with pride. That, He says quietly, is why I am so sure that you will come: you are too big to keep out of it! And, indeed, in His own day, it was only daring and adventurous spirits who would risk declaring for Him, as it is only daring and adventurous spirits still who have the pluck to try to follow so original and unpopular a Master in the real living-out of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47905]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're seeing the benefits of an experienced group and a group that's known each other for a long time. Some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're seeing the benefits of an experienced group and a group that's known each other for a long time. Some of them have been here since middle school, so they're comfortable with and trust each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smiled like yon knot of cowslips on a cliff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smiled like yon knot of cowslips on a cliff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3094]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12902]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.   - Edward B. Eastwick,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget those things that aren't worth remembering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AARP commends the Governor and the State Legislature for taking this unprecedented step in helping to ensure that New York's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40898]]></link><description><![CDATA[AARP commends the Governor and the State Legislature for taking this unprecedented step in helping to ensure that New York's most vulnerable citizens can stay warm this winter. With some people actually having to choose between filling their prescriptions and filling their oil tank, this funding couldn't have come at a better time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46249]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad conscience has a very good memory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9816]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad conscience has a very good memory]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David's had an incredible year on clay and is in spectacular form at the moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39055]]></link><description><![CDATA[David's had an incredible year on clay and is in spectacular form at the moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds). [Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona  Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles   Urguentur ignotique sacro.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27773]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,  It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60918]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,  It ravishes all senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The cancer treatment, combined with a bout of flu last year, left Farrakhan feeling] weak and drained, ... He was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28257]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The cancer treatment, combined with a bout of flu last year, left Farrakhan feeling] weak and drained, ... He was not his usual, energetic self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14457]]></link><description><![CDATA[This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20225]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20225</guid></item></channel></rss>