<?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[As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15729]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12419]]></link><description><![CDATA[If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow. The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early. When they had done this, they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles, for their mistress, no longer hearing the hour from the cock, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45838]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BT's 2Q 05/06 results would appear at first glance to be bang in line with our below-consensus expectations. But slightly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31601]]></link><description><![CDATA[BT's 2Q 05/06 results would appear at first glance to be bang in line with our below-consensus expectations. But slightly more-than-expected margin weakness and lower cash flow is unlikely to be taken well. Our sell rating is maintained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played pretty hard. We had a little trouble the first 50 minutes. We didn't really play our game, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32955]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played pretty hard. We had a little trouble the first 50 minutes. We didn't really play our game, but in the end it was a [win] for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16799]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet the task to shield an absent friend! I ask but this of mine to--not defend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48744]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet the task to shield an absent friend! I ask but this of mine to--not defend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime rot and consume themselves in little time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime rot and consume themselves in little time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1013]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58674]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love that of children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love that of children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't put the key of your happiness in someone elses pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't put the key of your happiness in someone elses pocket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11849]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we just started to play hockey. It was pretty torturous for the first two periods there. We had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32051]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we just started to play hockey. It was pretty torturous for the first two periods there. We had a few brief moments in there where we did play good or looked all right, but, for the most part, we looked like a pee-wee team out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/850]]></link><description><![CDATA[This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be.   - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57316]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60055]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;  Man marks the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;  Man marks the earth with ruin--his control   Stops with the shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9475]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ground is shifting radically under the pressure of newly documented claims. While there may not be a single clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ground is shifting radically under the pressure of newly documented claims. While there may not be a single clear solution for every claim, institutions will need to be forthright in explaining future acquisitions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34286]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59431]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bartell is getting better and better and better every week. There's a lot of things that he has to learn. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bartell is getting better and better and better every week. There's a lot of things that he has to learn. First of all, he's starting to figure out that the speed of this game's different than it was at Howard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states. [It., Gli ambasciadori sono l'occhio e l'orecchio degli stati.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states. [It., Gli ambasciadori sono l'occhio e l'orecchio degli stati.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unknown whether the patients had clearly expressed their intentions (for euthanasia), and I find it particularly problematic. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36527]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unknown whether the patients had clearly expressed their intentions (for euthanasia), and I find it particularly problematic. We apologize for the concerns we have caused to our patients.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes…thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells!  What a world of happiness their harmony foretells   Through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells!  What a world of happiness their harmony foretells   Through the balmy air of night    How they ring out their delight!     From the molten golden notes,      And all in tune       What a liquid ditty floats        To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats         On the moon!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye field flowers! the gardens eclipse you 'tis true: Yet wildings of nature, I dote upon you,  For ye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye field flowers! the gardens eclipse you 'tis true: Yet wildings of nature, I dote upon you,  For ye waft me to summers of old,   When the earth teem'd around me with fairy delight,    And when daisies and buttercups gladden'd my sight,     Like treasures of silver and gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head,  That bends not as I tread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head,  That bends not as I tread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13859]]></link><description><![CDATA[What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12676]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28761]]></link><description><![CDATA[In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42221]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty catch themselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty catch themselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14446]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21124]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balance between what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24234]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24234</guid></item></channel></rss>