<?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[The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind, and it is really difficult for human intelligence to guess at a divine intelligence. What we usually end up with by this sort of reasoning is to make God the color-sergeant of our army and to make Him as chauvinistic as ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49415]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7030]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's been great on defense this year. He's been a great example for our young big guys. He's a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34526]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's been great on defense this year. He's been a great example for our young big guys. He's a great off-the-ball defender, and some of the little things he does don't always show up on the stat sheet. We're going to miss him a lot. Other guys have to step up and do a great job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If an Iraq war scenario were to unfold in the early part of the year, it would probably be welcomed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If an Iraq war scenario were to unfold in the early part of the year, it would probably be welcomed by the market. Especially once victory is attained, which I think it would.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,  And marching single in an endless file, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,  And marching single in an endless file,   Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;    To each they offer gifts after his will,     Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;      I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp       Forgot my morning wishes, hastily        Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day         Turned and departed silent. I too late          Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crafty knave needs no broker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10661]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crafty knave needs no broker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that we need just three things in life: Something to do, Something to look forward to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25973]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that we need just three things in life: Something to do, Something to look forward to And someone to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38838]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33240]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25317]]></link><description><![CDATA[In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have learned the tricks, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34607]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have learned the tricks,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In addition, it has been less successful than we had hoped in selling consumer electronics in its mall stores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30436]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition, it has been less successful than we had hoped in selling consumer electronics in its mall stores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have circled, and they are now closing in. It's not looking good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28954]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have circled, and they are now closing in. It's not looking good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobodyelse has thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobodyelse has thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prudent question is one half of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52749]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prudent question is one half of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations. [Lat., Velle suuum cuique est, nec voto ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations. [Lat., Velle suuum cuique est, nec voto vivitur uno.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care;  Fashioned so slenderly,   Young and so fair! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care;  Fashioned so slenderly,   Young and so fair!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime--  Not failure, but low aim is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime--  Not failure, but low aim is crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43258]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27311]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all the bold talk, it's a slap on the wrist that can be paid with just 7.5 seconds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38979]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all the bold talk, it's a slap on the wrist that can be paid with just 7.5 seconds of Super Bowl ad time, ... This decision sets a puzzling precedent by failing to hold all licensees responsible for the material broadcast over their stations. Why announce such a thorough investigation, if we just let some of the stations that broadcast this material completely off the hook?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday   We usually think of Jesus in the upper room as calmly and patiently preparing his disciples ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday   We usually think of Jesus in the upper room as calmly and patiently preparing his disciples for their coming crisis; only in the garden are we shown his deep anguish over what lies ahead for himself. But if this verse ("'They hated me without a cause." Ps. 69:4) occurred to Jesus as describing his enemies, surely he was also identifying with the rest of [Psalm 69] with its vivid description of overwhelming troubles and importune cries to God for deliverance. What in the upper room was still under the surface was openly expressed in the garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks. [Lat., Intererit multum Davusne loquatur an heros.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45237]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks. [Lat., Intererit multum Davusne loquatur an heros.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56093]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel,  Whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel,  Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56943]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed, it is very probable that, by the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. It is because we do not yet which of the many competing new opinions will prove itself the best that we wait until it has gained sufficient support.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was real rebellious the first half of the season. He didn't want to listen to us. He had his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39062]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was real rebellious the first half of the season. He didn't want to listen to us. He had his own game plan. Then we'd get back and break down videos and ask him, 'Is this you, or is this somebody else?' He really matured in January. I think he finally got tired of us beating on him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5099]]></link><description><![CDATA[In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55733]]></link><description><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45343]]></link><description><![CDATA[O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dedication involves making the space to let young ideas take hold; every tree was once a seed and every company ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dedication involves making the space to let young ideas take hold; every tree was once a seed and every company was once an idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil thoughts often come from idleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil thoughts often come from idleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53018]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23436]]></link><description><![CDATA[For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23436</guid></item></channel></rss>