<?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 the database goes, so goes Oracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35287]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the database goes, so goes Oracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our starting pitching has been outstanding. We expect it to be good; (Bowden) is going to give us a chance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our starting pitching has been outstanding. We expect it to be good; (Bowden) is going to give us a chance to win every time out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow;  "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow;  "I hear the first young hard-bell ring,   'Tis time for me to go!    Northward o'er the icy rocks,     Northward o'er the sea,      My daughter comes with sunny locks:       This land's too warm for me!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21898]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13261]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He taketh wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61744]]></link><description><![CDATA[He taketh wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always enjoyed learning, and we accomplish a lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always enjoyed learning, and we accomplish a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many laws argues so many sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56387]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many laws argues so many sins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption is a malady not only effecting developing countries, but also the developed world, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption is a malady not only effecting developing countries, but also the developed world,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a great beautifier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a great beautifier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50270]]></link><description><![CDATA[In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45365]]></link><description><![CDATA[So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66227]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the things that truly matter beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace arise from beyond the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63007]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the things that truly matter beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace arise from beyond the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to attain excellence. To discover what a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47573]]></link><description><![CDATA[We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to attain excellence. To discover what a man truly craves but knows he cannot have we must find the field in which he advocates absolute equality. By this test Communists are frustrated Capitalists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime  With tears and laughter for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55309]]></link><description><![CDATA[There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime  With tears and laughter for all time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is there so much month left at the end of the money? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988  The Bible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988  The Bible tells us very clearly that to "know" God is not an affair of the mind only, but an act in which our whole being -- heart, mind, and will -- is vitally engaged; so that sheer intellectual speculation would enable us to form certain ideas about God but never to know Him. To be grasped, God's will must be met with a readiness to obey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be so humble--you are not that great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be so humble--you are not that great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good nature without prudence, is foolishness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good nature without prudence, is foolishness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17950]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And where the offense is, let the great axe fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54097]]></link><description><![CDATA[And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14697]]></link><description><![CDATA[One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29957]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No law reaches it, but all right- minded people observe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11573]]></link><description><![CDATA[No law reaches it, but all right- minded people observe it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You always admire what you really don't understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/598]]></link><description><![CDATA[You always admire what you really don't understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57389]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so is sincerity tested in adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50711]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so is sincerity tested in adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1161]]></link><description><![CDATA[In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going to the mountains is going home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going to the mountains is going home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that? Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that? Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24606</guid></item></channel></rss>