<?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[She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove,  A maid whom there were none to praise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44772]]></link><description><![CDATA[She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove,  A maid whom there were none to praise   And very few to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have a religion, I have a relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29433]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have a religion, I have a relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweeter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweeter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23306]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. •Anonymous    Many an opportunity is lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. •Anonymous    Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are violets blue, For our sweetness found  Careless in the mossy shades,   Looking on the ground. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60712]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are violets blue, For our sweetness found  Careless in the mossy shades,   Looking on the ground.    Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,--     Such our breath and blueness is.   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns  Of judgment and of mercy, should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48077]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns  Of judgment and of mercy, should beware   Of lightness in his speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course we're trying to compete with the publicity, ... At least Game 1 of the Series wasn't on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course we're trying to compete with the publicity, ... At least Game 1 of the Series wasn't on the same night as our game. We all want to have good teams in Chicago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So curses all Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55372]]></link><description><![CDATA[So curses all Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communication works for those who work at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communication works for those who work at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64863]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That name was a power to rally a nation in the hour of thick-thronging public disasters and calamities; that name ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61256]]></link><description><![CDATA[That name was a power to rally a nation in the hour of thick-thronging public disasters and calamities; that name shone amid the storm of war, a beacon light to cheer and guide the country's friends; it flamed too like a meteor to repel her foes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophecy: Two bull's eyes out of a possible million ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prophecy: Two bull's eyes out of a possible million]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one can master a grief but he that has it. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one can master a grief but he that has it. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times; they can only make you stronger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret wound still lives within the breast. [Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret wound still lives within the breast. [Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or (almost) like a Spider, who, confin'd In her Web's centre, shakt with every winde,  Moves in an instant, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or (almost) like a Spider, who, confin'd In her Web's centre, shakt with every winde,  Moves in an instant, if the buzzing Flie   Stir but a string of her Lawn Canopie.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24670]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. -George Soros.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9554]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17417]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weakness of the current security services in dealing with such crimes ... led to all these explosions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weakness of the current security services in dealing with such crimes ... led to all these explosions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52118]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44638]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God comes to see without a bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49267]]></link><description><![CDATA[God comes to see without a bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best defense is a good offence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best defense is a good offence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61317]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll see markets continue to do the Cha-Cha, moving higher, but paced by brief retrenchments. It's not going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34031]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll see markets continue to do the Cha-Cha, moving higher, but paced by brief retrenchments. It's not going to be as good as last year, but I think 2004 will still be a good year for the stock markets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore, ... I stress again to you and to all your brothers the need to direct the political action equally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore, ... I stress again to you and to all your brothers the need to direct the political action equally with the military action, by the alliance, cooperation and gathering of all leaders of opinion and influence in the Iraqi arena.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young Timothy Learnt sin to fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young Timothy Learnt sin to fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet,  His finger on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61719]]></link><description><![CDATA[His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet,  His finger on all flowing waters sweet   Forbidding lay--motion nor sound was there:--    Nature was frozen dead,--and still and slow,     A winding sheet fell o'er her body fair,      Flaky and soft, from his wide wings of snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lanscape shapes culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lanscape shapes culture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9041]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890   Bernard [of Clairvaux] did not stop with love for God or Christ, he insisted also that the Christian must love his neighbors, including even his enemies. Not necessarily that he must feel affection for them -- that is not always possible in this life, though it will be in heaven -- but that he must treat them as love dictates, doing always for others what he would that they should do for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, "Why"; But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52761]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, "Why"; But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy lips which spake wrong counsel, I kiss close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy lips which spake wrong counsel, I kiss close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it's for the musicians, to get the bands back together and play some music, because a lot of these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it's for the musicians, to get the bands back together and play some music, because a lot of these guys don't play anymore. But, our main thing, one of the constant things, is that we give band instruments to the high school and middle schools (of north central Wisconsin). That's the really big thing that we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours surpris de trouver de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours surpris de trouver de l'habilete dans les bons.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue  Among the flowers and grass ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue  Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has been a pretty strong presence at the company for a long time, and was obviously a big driver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33981]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has been a pretty strong presence at the company for a long time, and was obviously a big driver in the launch of Weekend Edition. The fact that she's leaving by mutual agreement indicates that the board is becoming more active, and is willing to make tougher decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33981</guid></item></channel></rss>