<?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[and once it leaves their hands it's someone else's problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34743]]></link><description><![CDATA[and once it leaves their hands it's someone else's problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, youare a whole, total person, not an apprentice person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, youare a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way tosomeplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you andexperienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my God, a wonderful deepness. It is awe to look into it; even an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principlesnever do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principlesnever do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66046]]></link><description><![CDATA[We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11094]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like--but oh! how different! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like--but oh! how different!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll,  There's a wife brighten'd vire at the end of my road,   An' her love, voe the jay o' my soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4600]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris,  Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris,  Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,--  Weeps like a tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2985]]></link><description><![CDATA[For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,--  Weeps like a tired child who had,   Playing with flowers, lost its way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20551]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But men are men; the best sometimes forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51438]]></link><description><![CDATA[But men are men; the best sometimes forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18059]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. [Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi  Nulla potest placare quies.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. [Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi  Nulla potest placare quies.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/977]]></link><description><![CDATA[To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house is a machine for living in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19645]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house is a machine for living in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53639]]></link><description><![CDATA[And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year it's a little easier, they make less mistakes in practice. I don't have to do so much repetition, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40604]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year it's a little easier, they make less mistakes in practice. I don't have to do so much repetition, because they know what to do and what to expect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used it quite a bit today. It worked pretty good. I was happy with it. I threw it for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29932]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used it quite a bit today. It worked pretty good. I was happy with it. I threw it for my third strike for those first three batters I struck out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal,  And regards the quadrille ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11038]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal,  And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery   Than crushing His African children with slavery,    Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon     Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion,      Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows,       Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PSALM 126 The Lord can clear the darkest skies  Can give us day for night. Make drops of sacred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6499]]></link><description><![CDATA[PSALM 126 The Lord can clear the darkest skies  Can give us day for night. Make drops of sacred sorrow rise  To rivers of delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems the storm is not going to be as strong as we feared and that was enough to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38864]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems the storm is not going to be as strong as we feared and that was enough to take some of the selling pressure off stocks today. We are not likely to see real stock-buying this afternoon as most investors still want to see what happens with the storm during the weekend, but if damage is minimal, we might be bound for a rally on Monday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can, That's breathed in the words, "I'm an Englishman." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13917]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can, That's breathed in the words, "I'm an Englishman."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44481]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silent, grim, colossal, the Big City has ever stood against its revilers. They call it hard as iron; they say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silent, grim, colossal, the Big City has ever stood against its revilers. They call it hard as iron; they say that nothing of pity beats in its bosom; they compare its streets with lonely forests and deserts of lava. But beneath the hard crust of the lobster is found a delectable and luscious food. Perhaps a different simile would have been wiser. Still nobody should take offence. We would call nobody a lobster with good and sufficient claws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again, and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't look like there will be any disruption in the near term. Iran relies on the money the oil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39167]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't look like there will be any disruption in the near term. Iran relies on the money the oil brings in so they wouldn't be able to cut supplies for long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When to secure your bald pate from the weather, You lately wore a cape of black neats' leather;  He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When to secure your bald pate from the weather, You lately wore a cape of black neats' leather;  He was a very wag, who to you said,   "Why do you wear your slippers on your head?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11617]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, so what?, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, so what?,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38879</guid></item></channel></rss>