<?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[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground--long heath, brown furze, anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground--long heath, brown furze, anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55690]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now stir the fire, and close the shudders fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,  And while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now stir the fire, and close the shudders fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,  And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn   Throws up a steamy column, and the cups,    That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,     So let us welcome peaceful evening in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53162]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26168]]></link><description><![CDATA[On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when he (man) shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. [Lat., Cum autem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/146]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when he (man) shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. [Lat., Cum autem sublatus fuerit ab oculis, etiam cito transit a mente.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed  A place of drear extent, before him sees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59620]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed  A place of drear extent, before him sees   A river rushing swiftly toward the deep,    And all its tossing current white with foam,     And stops and turns, and measures back his way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His heart and hand both open and both free; For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows; Yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56071]]></link><description><![CDATA[His heart and hand both open and both free; For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows; Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a brave man every soil is his country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50792]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a brave man every soil is his country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   I am, indeed, far from agreeing with those who think all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   I am, indeed, far from agreeing with those who think all religious fear barbarous and degrading and demand that it should be banished from the spiritual life. Perfect love, we know, casteth out fear. But so do several other things--ignorance, alcohol, passion presumption, and stupidity. It is very desirable that we should all advance to that perfection of love in which we shall fear no longer; but it is very undesirable, until we have reached that stage, that we should allow any inferior agent to cast out our fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This proves to the world that Iraqis are writing their own constitution. We want to be sure to write something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36222]]></link><description><![CDATA[This proves to the world that Iraqis are writing their own constitution. We want to be sure to write something that keeps Iraq intact, in land and in people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it\'s sitting down making a quilt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it\'s sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was born here, ... He didn't do anything other than British culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29907]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was born here, ... He didn't do anything other than British culture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29907</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[We need to be closer and have the same goals in mind. I see it starting to happen here. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31380]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to be closer and have the same goals in mind. I see it starting to happen here. The atmosphere is different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of evil is the root of all money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of evil is the root of all money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform with the league's new dress code, ... Iverson and other NBA players have suggested that they will not abide by the league's dress code, and Bodog.com will offer to reimburse any fines levied, and match the payment with a donation to each player's charity of choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're pretty much on schedule, ... We are talking to some people right now, but mergers are unpredictable. ... We'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38506]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're pretty much on schedule, ... We are talking to some people right now, but mergers are unpredictable. ... We'd like to see a transaction in the early part of 2006, but whether we will or not, frankly, depends on the sellers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography helps people to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography helps people to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster.  The far-fam'd sculptor, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster.  The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard,   Those bold insurancers of deathless fame,    Supply their little feeble aids in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59730]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The legislators will also continue to dictate what types of security measures must be taken in order to prevent unauthorized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The legislators will also continue to dictate what types of security measures must be taken in order to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive company information.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectlythan it is to do somebody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectlythan it is to do somebody elses work perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I found most striking in monitoring eviction cases was that judges didn't adjust anything (rent) for hurricane damage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I found most striking in monitoring eviction cases was that judges didn't adjust anything (rent) for hurricane damage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not all who wander are lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not all who wander are lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,  May I express thee unblam'd? since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,  May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light   And never but in unapproached light    Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee,     Bright effluence of bright essence increate!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This initiative is being financed by Californians who want to try it in Colorado instead of their own backyard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39623]]></link><description><![CDATA[This initiative is being financed by Californians who want to try it in Colorado instead of their own backyard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This speaks well of our kids to play hard and make their way to the finals, ... All the kids ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29382]]></link><description><![CDATA[This speaks well of our kids to play hard and make their way to the finals, ... All the kids played with lots of desire, hustle and Badger spirit all day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. -Chuang Tzu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some remedies worse than the disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53782]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some remedies worse than the disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's their best athlete, number one pitcher and a good hitter too at the three hole in the lineup. We're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28200]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's their best athlete, number one pitcher and a good hitter too at the three hole in the lineup. We're going to have to manufacture some runs against them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52550]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him; Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupis... one of those two doesn't sound right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32117]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,  Can blazon evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,  Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best prophet is common sense, our native wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11398]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11398</guid></item></channel></rss>