<?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[What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9088]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his copper and pocket a shilling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53482]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12394]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For fools admire, but me of sense approve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/613]]></link><description><![CDATA[For fools admire, but me of sense approve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23621]]></link><description><![CDATA[I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a moderately fast-moving storm and will be out of here pretty much by Saturday, although there might be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32492]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a moderately fast-moving storm and will be out of here pretty much by Saturday, although there might be some lingering storms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimum would be to have him (Hasek) in net but he's injured and we're happy the way Ray has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimum would be to have him (Hasek) in net but he's injured and we're happy the way Ray has been playing. He's going to be the guy for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest eloquence is that which gets things done: the worst is that which delays them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest eloquence is that which gets things done: the worst is that which delays them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's some pretty good spin on some very hard numbers if you look at them over time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's some pretty good spin on some very hard numbers if you look at them over time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15684]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine June 15, 1996 Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with. [On the subject ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with. [On the subject of Mr. Bean].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45922]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've personally used e2fsprogs 1.05 to make a 54bib partition. That's a lot of bibs. I thought a double chin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've personally used e2fsprogs 1.05 to make a 54bib partition. That's a lot of bibs. I thought a double chin was a lot, but to need 54 bibs, it would have to be a FAT partition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't enjoy it when he gets you out and makes you look a monkey. But if you get runs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42547]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't enjoy it when he gets you out and makes you look a monkey. But if you get runs against him, you enjoy that because you know you've certainly earned them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regulatory modernization would keep states in charge of regulating insurance, but create a set of federal standards that would eliminate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regulatory modernization would keep states in charge of regulating insurance, but create a set of federal standards that would eliminate price controls and controls over policy forms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59992]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28125]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. - The Would-be Gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26294]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54892]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61849]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14612]]></link><description><![CDATA[O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wandering between two worlds, one dead,/ The other powerless to be born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wandering between two worlds, one dead,/ The other powerless to be born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3952]]></link><description><![CDATA[It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think other benefits are being utilized today more often than sabbaticals as retention tools. Instead of giving us six ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think other benefits are being utilized today more often than sabbaticals as retention tools. Instead of giving us six weeks off a year, employees are demanding more day to day flexibility, like the ability to telecommute, flex-time and child care or elder-care benefits. Those are the other areas where we are seeing real growth, while sabbaticals are sort of going up and down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40150]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night and then as its mausoleum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is no evil unless it conquers us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True repentance is to cease from sinning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53840]]></link><description><![CDATA[True repentance is to cease from sinning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape;  Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest   Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[say that your main crop is the forest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9691]]></link><description><![CDATA[say that your main crop is the forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/898]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe.  O poor Robinson Crusoe! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43040]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe.  O poor Robinson Crusoe!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got here, it was up to the older guys to make me understand how important it was here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42261]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got here, it was up to the older guys to make me understand how important it was here to win championships and go to the NCAA tournament every year. And that's my job now as a senior to make the guys coming up behind understand that going to the tournament every year just doesn't happen. You've got to earn it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They don't have many issues left, but they cannot predict an agreement will be made by (Friday) morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41262]]></link><description><![CDATA[They don't have many issues left, but they cannot predict an agreement will be made by (Friday) morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor knowest thou what argument Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent,  All are needed by each one; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor knowest thou what argument Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent,  All are needed by each one;   Nothing is fair or good alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20859</guid></item></channel></rss>