<?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[O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain;  To sit upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58320]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain;  To sit upon a hill, as I do now,   To carve out dials, quaintly, point by point,    Thereby to see the minutes, how they run--     How many makes the hour full complete,      How many hours brings about the day,       How many days will finish up the year,        How many years a mortal man may live;         When this is known, then to divide the times--          So many hours must I tend my flock,           So many hours must I take my rest,            So many hours must I contemplate,             So many hours must I sport myself;              So many days my ewes have been with young,               So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean,                So many months ere I shall shear the fleece.                 So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years,                  Passed over to the end they were created,                   Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.                    Ah, what a life were this!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath a mouth of his owne, must not say to another; Blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49345]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath a mouth of his owne, must not say to another; Blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as work, family and country such as the individual, honor and religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire:   Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a crazy son of a bitch. Do you think I have time to care about what all the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30239]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a crazy son of a bitch. Do you think I have time to care about what all the other ass holes care? If they don't like us fine. We don't play for the people, we play because we have fun doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, we have injected UF6 gas into a limited number of centrifuge machines, but it is even less than what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, we have injected UF6 gas into a limited number of centrifuge machines, but it is even less than what is needed for a pilot project.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I kept thinking to myself that we had just one last week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29045]]></link><description><![CDATA[I kept thinking to myself that we had just one last week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13941]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual reality" we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived. -David Schwartz.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16220]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and embalming of the body of any king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30983]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue That, his apparent open guilt omitted--  I mean, his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20238]]></link><description><![CDATA[So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue That, his apparent open guilt omitted--  I mean, his conversation with Shore's wife--   He lived from all attainder of suspects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a really good save off a direct kick. They bent the ball around a (defensive) wall and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40239]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a really good save off a direct kick. They bent the ball around a (defensive) wall and he made a diving save into the corner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achievement results from work realizing ambition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achievement results from work realizing ambition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She can change her Mind like the wind: whatever she has said  Or done, is light to what she'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48756]]></link><description><![CDATA[She can change her Mind like the wind: whatever she has said  Or done, is light to what she'll say or do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is like the telephone problem--no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34572]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is like the telephone problem--no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  What we have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ -- can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father -- that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 3 percent kicks in during year three. On paper, we're not expecting to show a profit for the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 3 percent kicks in during year three. On paper, we're not expecting to show a profit for the first year; we hope to show a small profit in year two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280 JESUS, the infinite I AM, With God essentially the same, With him enthroned above all height, As God of God, and Light of Light, Thou art by thy great Father known, From all eternity his Son. Thou only dost the Father know, And wilt to all thy followers show, Who cannot doubt thy gracious will His glorious Godhead to reveal; Reveal him now, if thou art he, And live, eternal Life, in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says "Amen" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says "Amen" and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men freely believe that which they desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men freely believe that which they desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This happens, and my God, I've never seen a case of hard feelings. I bet this would deepen their friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39564]]></link><description><![CDATA[This happens, and my God, I've never seen a case of hard feelings. I bet this would deepen their friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to score field goals when we can score touchdowns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32175]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to score field goals when we can score touchdowns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26862]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only after disaster can we be ressurected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only after disaster can we be ressurected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60286]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or broidered zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45768]]></link><description><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25706]]></link><description><![CDATA[We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only wish I had more time for fund raising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only wish I had more time for fund raising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a step in the direction of releasing all Palestinian prisoners. Their continued stay in prison does not help Israel's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36378]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a step in the direction of releasing all Palestinian prisoners. Their continued stay in prison does not help Israel's interests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29691]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evidence is clear. This reaches the top the very top of our archdiocese, ... Regrettably, the perpetrators of these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41221]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evidence is clear. This reaches the top the very top of our archdiocese, ... Regrettably, the perpetrators of these crimes and the people that protected them will never face the penalties they deserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50299]]></link><description><![CDATA[My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Defense and government networks are hardening their security, but for regular users, the best strategy against high-tech crime can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38707]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Defense and government networks are hardening their security, but for regular users, the best strategy against high-tech crime can be simple.] Our best defenses against these kind of attacks are often of a low tech variety -- that is, keep paper records of your transactions, ... Even though much of what we have exists only as a series of ones and zeroes somewhere in the information sphere, we do get paper copies and we should hang on to those. The movie 'The Net,' I think, makes a very intriguing point, about this very computer literate protagonist who has few human connections, and this is precisely the reason she's vulnerable to the kind of attack she suffers. It seems to me that if we keep that in mind we'll be well served.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when students graduate from universities, they are not able to fill the intellectual positions that need to be filled. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when students graduate from universities, they are not able to fill the intellectual positions that need to be filled. They are not capable of generating new ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it is bolstering management rather than bringing in someone who is going to say yes to a bid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it is bolstering management rather than bringing in someone who is going to say yes to a bid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is a progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined personalgoals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is a progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined personalgoals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I will show myself To have more of the serpent than the dove;  That is--more knave than fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I will show myself To have more of the serpent than the dove;  That is--more knave than fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23898</guid></item></channel></rss>