<?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[Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't help but stand out there and think how amazing it is with all the connections, including Glen Sather. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35831]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't help but stand out there and think how amazing it is with all the connections, including Glen Sather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, 'a stalks up and down like a peacock--a stride and a stand; ruminates like an hostess that hath no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, 'a stalks up and down like a peacock--a stride and a stand; ruminates like an hostess that hath no arithmetic but her brain to set down her reckoning; bites his lip with a politic regard, as who should say, 'There were wit in this head an 'twould out'; and so there is, but it lies as coldly in him as fire in a flint, which will not show without knocking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9636]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was an outsider. I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed. While I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was an outsider. I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed. While I looked for validation from my fellow contemporaries, I instead found jealousy and envy. I did not find team spirit. This led to dissatisfaction, an unease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is that when they talk about quality of health care, patients mean something entirely different than experts do. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is that when they talk about quality of health care, patients mean something entirely different than experts do. They're not talking about numbers or outcomes but about their own human experience, which is a combination of cost, paperwork and what I'll call the hassle factor, the impersonal nature of the care.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29556]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54638]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unix is the answer, but only if you phrase the question very carefully. Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unix is the answer, but only if you phrase the question very carefully. Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are. Unix: It's not just 'User-Unfriendly', it's 'Proactively User-Hostile' !]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, the Shamrock, the green, immortal Shamrock! Chosen leaf  OF Bard and Chief,   Old Erin's native Shamrock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56152]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, the Shamrock, the green, immortal Shamrock! Chosen leaf  OF Bard and Chief,   Old Erin's native Shamrock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given the decision by the Justice Department to indict the entire 26,000-person firm, it is invertible there will be some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given the decision by the Justice Department to indict the entire 26,000-person firm, it is invertible there will be some personnel cuts,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even at low speeds, trains with that much weight can take as much as a half-mile to stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even at low speeds, trains with that much weight can take as much as a half-mile to stop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63523]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brittany is our best closer. We're glad she's back. I thought tonight we came out in the first half afraid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brittany is our best closer. We're glad she's back. I thought tonight we came out in the first half afraid to make mistakes and sat back and watched things happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Caske and an ill custome must be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49004]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius,magic, and power in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius,magic, and power in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts Yet these are wealth enough for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61443]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts Yet these are wealth enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wish is the father of the deed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wish is the father of the deed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10379]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even turkeys can fly in a stiff wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even turkeys can fly in a stiff wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've owned a lot of crap in my days -- rental houses and strip malls -- but we finally got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've owned a lot of crap in my days -- rental houses and strip malls -- but we finally got this place, and it's worth all the crap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! how easily things go wrong! A sigh too deep, or a kiss too long,  And then comes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! how easily things go wrong! A sigh too deep, or a kiss too long,  And then comes a mist and a weeping rain,   And life is never the same again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We plan to recertify our bid. We don't anticipate any changes. And we believe we have a very good shot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33658]]></link><description><![CDATA[We plan to recertify our bid. We don't anticipate any changes. And we believe we have a very good shot at winning. We are certainly optimistic about the outcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55489]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36896]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51990]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52588]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5635]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64502]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28111]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   When we are troubled with temptation and evil thoughts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   When we are troubled with temptation and evil thoughts, then we see clearly the great need we have of God, since without him we can do nothing good. No one is so good that he is immune to temptation; we will never [in this life] be entirely free of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60203</guid></item></channel></rss>