<?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[Wode has erys, felde has sigt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wode has erys, felde has sigt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20009]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth condemns; maturity condones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth condemns; maturity condones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The starting point of all achievement is desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The starting point of all achievement is desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Training is all-encompassing and should be related to everything a unit does, or can have happen to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Training is all-encompassing and should be related to everything a unit does, or can have happen to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail  In monumental mockery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51276]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail  In monumental mockery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1021]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Beryl Coronet".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59289]]></link><description><![CDATA[To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10381]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this. -Don Quixote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness lies in our own backyard, but it's probably well hidden by crabgrass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness lies in our own backyard, but it's probably well hidden by crabgrass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight;  Farewell awhile to him and thee,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight;  Farewell awhile to him and thee,   My native land--Good Night!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4556]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18942]]></link><description><![CDATA[What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lost a cousin about three years ago. I felt helpless and wished there was something I could have done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lost a cousin about three years ago. I felt helpless and wished there was something I could have done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it will be reduced; $28 billion is a bit much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42055]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it will be reduced; $28 billion is a bit much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delphi is telling the bankruptcy court that if nothing changes in terms of their union agreement, they won?t have money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delphi is telling the bankruptcy court that if nothing changes in terms of their union agreement, they won?t have money to pay their light bill by the end of 2007. So there?s definitely going to be a need for changes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21593]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sequelae are inherently unpredictable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sequelae are inherently unpredictable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,  Over the woodlands brown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,  Over the woodlands brown and bare,   Over the harvest-fields forsaken,    Silent, and soft, and slow     Descends the snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having access to broadband is instrumental for so many businesses today and can greatly assist the running of an organisation, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having access to broadband is instrumental for so many businesses today and can greatly assist the running of an organisation, particularly those in more remote areas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a little wife well will'd, are great riches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61370]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a little wife well will'd, are great riches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58371]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39594]]></link><description><![CDATA[First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple is better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with competency in electronics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with competency in electronics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not remember days; we remember moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27764]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not remember days; we remember moments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2015]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Land to which Desire forever flees; Time doth no present to our grasp allow,  Say in the fixed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Land to which Desire forever flees; Time doth no present to our grasp allow,  Say in the fixed Eternal shall we seize   At last the fleeting Now?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed  A place of drear extent, before him sees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59620]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed  A place of drear extent, before him sees   A river rushing swiftly toward the deep,    And all its tossing current white with foam,     And stops and turns, and measures back his way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20822]]></link><description><![CDATA[A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our own in-house experiments, she couldn't get out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37733]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our own in-house experiments, she couldn't get out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of theengine inside of me which is pounding, saying, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of theengine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "keep going, someonemust be on top, why not you?".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2704</guid></item></channel></rss>