<?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[But these are foolish things to all the wise, And I love wisdom more than she loves me;  My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61754]]></link><description><![CDATA[But these are foolish things to all the wise, And I love wisdom more than she loves me;  My tendency is to philosophise   On most things, from a tyrant to a tree;    But still the spouseless virgin Knowledge flies,     What are we? and whence come we? what shall be      Our ultimate existence? What's our present?       Are questions answerless, and yet incessant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of large trunks filled with Enron documents were sent [to] Andersen's main Houston office to be shredded,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every mess I find a friend, In every port a wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61877]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every mess I find a friend, In every port a wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look at Liv Tyler and think "It's not fair," because I can't find a flaw on her. And on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look at Liv Tyler and think "It's not fair," because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it's really not fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Due to technical difficulties the light at the end of the tunnel will be off until further notice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Due to technical difficulties the light at the end of the tunnel will be off until further notice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene they could never have dared to be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15120]]></link><description><![CDATA[A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is clear that Seagate continues to progress well towards providing newer higher margin drives in the CE and Mobile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30611]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is clear that Seagate continues to progress well towards providing newer higher margin drives in the CE and Mobile markets. As such, we continue to believe that Seagate can grow its top and bottom line profits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on sin:  Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on sin:  Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation or hell, is the permanent choice of the not-God. God does not (in the monstrous old-fashioned phrase) "send" anybody to hell; hell is that state of the soul in which its choice becomes obdurate and fixed; the punishment (so to call it) of that soul is to remain eternally in that State which it has chosen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to changetheir lives, but I've met many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21152]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to changetheir lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change theirmotive to service in order to change their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To complain of lack of leadership is, in the field of political affairs, the characteristic attitude of all harbingers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47204]]></link><description><![CDATA[To complain of lack of leadership is, in the field of political affairs, the characteristic attitude of all harbingers of dictatorship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crime of a mother is a heavy burden. [Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crime of a mother is a heavy burden. [Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47047]]></link><description><![CDATA[A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before mid-October it will be up and running. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before mid-October it will be up and running.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a wonderful job for baseball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34360]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a wonderful job for baseball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My minde to me a kingdome is, Such perfect joy therein I finde  As farre exceeds all earthly blisse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27507]]></link><description><![CDATA[My minde to me a kingdome is, Such perfect joy therein I finde  As farre exceeds all earthly blisse   That God or Nature hath assignde    Though much I want that most would have     Yet still my minde forbids to crave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" -- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty and war itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50281]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45279]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23057]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She'll be in every episode. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37937]]></link><description><![CDATA[She'll be in every episode.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35301]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45482]]></link><description><![CDATA[The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  It seems to me that testimonies should once again become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  It seems to me that testimonies should once again become a part of the life of our churches. I have not made a study of why the testimony fell into disrepute and was discarded, but I suspect these were three of the factors:  (1) The same persons gave the testimony every time.  (2) They gave the same testimony every time.  (3) The testimony they gave was about something that happened ten, or twenty, or thirty years before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You create your opportunities by asking for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/813]]></link><description><![CDATA[You create your opportunities by asking for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the brink of it Picture it--think of it,  Dissolute man.   Lave in it--drink of it  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the brink of it Picture it--think of it,  Dissolute man.   Lave in it--drink of it    Then, if you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53761]]></link><description><![CDATA[For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Father! no prophet's laws I seek,-- Thy laws in Nature's works appear;--  I own myself corrupt and weak,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Father! no prophet's laws I seek,-- Thy laws in Nature's works appear;--  I own myself corrupt and weak,   Yet will I pray, for thou wilt hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55463]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14512]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever may be the issue we shall share one common danger, one safety. [Lat., Quo res cunque cadant, unum et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever may be the issue we shall share one common danger, one safety. [Lat., Quo res cunque cadant, unum et commune periculum,  Una salus ambobus erit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exactmeasure of the height to which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exactmeasure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64188]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58620]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[December is an anomaly. We had an array of trouble. We had contractor problems, where contractors weren't able to clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41664]]></link><description><![CDATA[December is an anomaly. We had an array of trouble. We had contractor problems, where contractors weren't able to clear the tracks in time for rush hour. We had a broken rail, missing third-rail shoes, locomotive engine failures, and then we had the (New York City transit) strike in December. That affected all the lines because of slower boarding and congestions. We had trains stacked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are obligations to nobility. [Lat., Noblesse oblige.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44579]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are obligations to nobility. [Lat., Noblesse oblige.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no little enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13878]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no little enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13878</guid></item></channel></rss>