<?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[It was about as different from home as I could imagine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41168]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was about as different from home as I could imagine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,  Who backwards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56253]]></link><description><![CDATA[For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,  Who backwards looks.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's the humour of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20065]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's the humour of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home; He was perfumed like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home; He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took 't away again. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He shone with the greater splendor, because he was not seen. [Lat., Eo magis praefulgebat quod non videbatur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44771]]></link><description><![CDATA[He shone with the greater splendor, because he was not seen. [Lat., Eo magis praefulgebat quod non videbatur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dull winter will re-appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dull winter will re-appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50135]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth, "A large cold bottle, and a small hot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13190]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth, "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go West, young man! Go West. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go West, young man! Go West.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criminals do not die by the hands of the law; they die by the hands of other men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criminals do not die by the hands of the law; they die by the hands of other men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has no enemy, you say; My friend your boast is poor,  He who hath mingled in the fray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13838]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has no enemy, you say; My friend your boast is poor,  He who hath mingled in the fray   Of duty that the brave endure    Must have made foes. If he has none     Small is the work that he has done.      He has hit no traitor on the hip;       Has cast no cup from perjured lip;        Has never turned the wrong to right;         Has been a coward in the fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11201]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22730]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This lends stability to the company. It's always good to let people know who's in charge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30404]]></link><description><![CDATA[This lends stability to the company. It's always good to let people know who's in charge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small companies are the real innovators in this market, ... but if the burdens around IP become too heavy, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small companies are the real innovators in this market, ... but if the burdens around IP become too heavy, and there are too many lawsuits, those companies will withdraw from the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's almost like we have ESPN.(on how well he and James Worthy work together) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57647]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's almost like we have ESPN.(on how well he and James Worthy work together)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect there will be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect there will be a fish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["God works in many ways His wonders to perform." But He's not a skillful mechanic. A man drived over a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27576]]></link><description><![CDATA["God works in many ways His wonders to perform." But He's not a skillful mechanic. A man drived over a cliff and "by a miracle" he only breaks his back. It would be more divine if he were a better driver and stayed on the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19034]]></link><description><![CDATA[A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28862]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to Don King, but there's no way I'll do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1747]]></link><description><![CDATA[You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45275]]></link><description><![CDATA[All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their only labour was to kill the time; And labour dire it is, and weary woe,  They sit, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their only labour was to kill the time; And labour dire it is, and weary woe,  They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme,   Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go,    Or saunter forth, with tottering steps and slow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sidney Crosby is going to play where Sidney Crosby and his agent decide he's going to play. Any player who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sidney Crosby is going to play where Sidney Crosby and his agent decide he's going to play. Any player who has reached the age of 18 by Sept. 15 is eligible to play in our league if he is appropriately under contract.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Summer looks out from her brazen tower, Through the flashing bars of July. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23562]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Summer looks out from her brazen tower, Through the flashing bars of July.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyday of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who piss me off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyday of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who piss me off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's up to Gary. He's not some spectacle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33388]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's up to Gary. He's not some spectacle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26534]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48360]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[''I do have sort of a spiritual center now that I didn't havebefore,'' says Earle. ''But my spirituality is real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17696]]></link><description><![CDATA[''I do have sort of a spiritual center now that I didn't havebefore,'' says Earle. ''But my spirituality is real retarded. Itbasically consists of `I believe there is a God, and it ain't me.'It's simple, but it works.''source: Boston Globe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The probability is going up that there's going to be some kind of transaction involving Knight Ridder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The probability is going up that there's going to be some kind of transaction involving Knight Ridder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43527</guid></item></channel></rss>