<?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[They did the book design and layout and we did the production. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40559]]></link><description><![CDATA[They did the book design and layout and we did the production.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   We took tea, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again? I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When any volume of this blend comes in contact with one-half of 1 percent (of its own volume) of water, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33795]]></link><description><![CDATA[When any volume of this blend comes in contact with one-half of 1 percent (of its own volume) of water, a condition called 'phase separation' occurs. For 10,000 gallons (of blend), that's 50 gallons of water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In winter, places look very different, and it gives a feeling of exploration. It rejuvenates you for the coming week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29032]]></link><description><![CDATA[In winter, places look very different, and it gives a feeling of exploration. It rejuvenates you for the coming week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commissioner simply took advantage of being in the region yesterday to accompany Mr. Benson in Jackson and participate in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36015]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commissioner simply took advantage of being in the region yesterday to accompany Mr. Benson in Jackson and participate in the meeting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or broidered zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25330]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without wishing to prejudge the criminal investigations and our own club investigation, I am deeply concerned about the actions of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without wishing to prejudge the criminal investigations and our own club investigation, I am deeply concerned about the actions of a minority of my players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small number of IT vendors are at the moment putting customers at risk of unwittingly running illegal software. Microsoft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42595]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small number of IT vendors are at the moment putting customers at risk of unwittingly running illegal software. Microsoft will not tolerate illegal copies of its software being sold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In doing we learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24578]]></link><description><![CDATA[In doing we learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the baby dies, On every side  Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud.   The baby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3637]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the baby dies, On every side  Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud.   The baby was not wrapped in any shroud.    The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed     That men's eyes might not see      Her misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice;  As if Divinity had catch'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28]]></link><description><![CDATA[He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice;  As if Divinity had catch'd   The itch, on purpose to be scratched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no short cut, nor ""royal road,"" to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38356]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no short cut, nor ""royal road,"" to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to pursue is long, difficult, and unsafe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52159]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40295]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You dont' boo me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give love, and love to your life will flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give love, and love to your life will flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63893]]></link><description><![CDATA[So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46617]]></link><description><![CDATA[More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatreds are the cinders of affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatreds are the cinders of affection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what has worked with what sounded good. In area after area- crime, education, housing, race relations- the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it;  And what that word did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12631]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it;  And what that word did make it,   I do believe and take it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find. -Anthony J. D'Angelo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48271]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people think that meditation takes time away from physicalaccomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people,however, find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people think that meditation takes time away from physicalaccomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people,however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60292]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62440]]></link><description><![CDATA[You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20807]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be, or not to be--that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer  The slings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12760]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be, or not to be--that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer  The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune   Or to take arms against a sea of troubles    And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep--     No more--and by a sleep to say we end      The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks       That flesh is heir to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6425]]></link><description><![CDATA[A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.  ... Evelyn Underhill November 30, 1996 Andrew the Apostle  With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of riches and wealthy state thought they might do what they listed. And doubtless he spared no kind of people, but was indifferent to all men, as well rich as poor, to the great shame of no small number of men nowadays. Whereas many we see so addicted to the pleasing of great and rich men, that in the meantime they have no regard to the meaner sort of poor people, whom Christ hath bought as dearly as the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63601]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either this wallpaper goes, or I do! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either this wallpaper goes, or I do!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you aren't room temperature, your situation can always be improved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17218]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you aren't room temperature, your situation can always be improved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Islamic world took a real beating because of what the clerics did in northern Nigeria, ... Islamic countries should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Islamic world took a real beating because of what the clerics did in northern Nigeria, ... Islamic countries should be praised for doing so much to bring the spread of polio back under control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is coming back in a very big way, and you need to be prepared for an extended period of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is coming back in a very big way, and you need to be prepared for an extended period of very cold weather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56805]]></link><description><![CDATA[[They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Registered Traveler Program is a significant step forward in the effort to balance aviation security and traveler convenience. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35844]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Registered Traveler Program is a significant step forward in the effort to balance aviation security and traveler convenience. It's a win-win proposition for consumers, businesses, airports, airlines and for the government. While travelers enjoy a more relaxing, less time consuming security screening process, the government can focus its security resources on more likely potential threats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35844</guid></item></channel></rss>