<?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[Now, while the honour thou hast got Is spick and span new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, while the honour thou hast got Is spick and span new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46773]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis Centennial  Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in its degree, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8528]]></link><description><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis Centennial  Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in its degree, an image of God, and the ordinate and faithful appreciation of that thing a clue, which, truly followed, will lead back to Him. Holding [the Way of Rejection], we see that every created thing, the highest devotion to moral duty, the purest conjugal love, the saint and the seraph, is no more than an image; that every one of them, followed for its own sake and isolated from its source, becomes an idol whose service is damnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55982]]></link><description><![CDATA[What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sell cheap and tell the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sell cheap and tell the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63562]]></link><description><![CDATA[On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're waist deep in the Big Muddyand the big fool says to push onsinging about an incident in whichmarine recruits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45955]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're waist deep in the Big Muddyand the big fool says to push onsinging about an incident in whichmarine recruits died driven to their deaths by an officer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The water is the same on both sides of the boat ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The water is the same on both sides of the boat]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had hired coach Frank Nails that season and he asked me to speak at the pep rally. I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had hired coach Frank Nails that season and he asked me to speak at the pep rally. I am -- and was then -- 5-foot-3, 138 pounds, and I stood next to 6-foot-6, 240-pound linemen and scolded them, telling them if they hit a little harder we might win a few games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56745]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the operating results are disappointing, we made significant progress toward executing our strategic plans during the quarter, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35758]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the operating results are disappointing, we made significant progress toward executing our strategic plans during the quarter,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The engineers had to redesign the software, reprogram the tape recorder and had to get Galileo to do data compression, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31979]]></link><description><![CDATA[The engineers had to redesign the software, reprogram the tape recorder and had to get Galileo to do data compression,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11974]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more dif.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the employers I talked to do not want to hire them. They said these people are being trained with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33153]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the employers I talked to do not want to hire them. They said these people are being trained with the wrong things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to hear it said, "That is he." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50826]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to hear it said, "That is he."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matter and energy moves itself. It has no exterior mover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matter and energy moves itself. It has no exterior mover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad monetary and fiscal policy, often designed by the IMF, is the real cause of global problems. The only explanation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad monetary and fiscal policy, often designed by the IMF, is the real cause of global problems. The only explanation for why government leaders continue to follow these policies is that by blaming markets, they avoid blaming themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smaller the mind the greater the conceit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smaller the mind the greater the conceit]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20527]]></link><description><![CDATA[His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4726]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4726</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[What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17270]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees,  And shape the whisper of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57853]]></link><description><![CDATA[And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees,  And shape the whisper of the throne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One point of view gives a one dimensional world.(Liz Murray.. a brilliant homeless teen who gota scholarship to an Ivy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/387]]></link><description><![CDATA[One point of view gives a one dimensional world.(Liz Murray.. a brilliant homeless teen who gota scholarship to an Ivy League school).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tariff: a scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tariff: a scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such understanding is required for researchers to develop new and much-needed approaches to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases, such as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such understanding is required for researchers to develop new and much-needed approaches to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases, such as diabetes, bipolar disorder, cancer and many others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:  His rash fierce blaze of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:  His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,   For violent fires soon burn out themselves;    Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short;     He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;      With eager feeding doth choke the feeder;       Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,        Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're generating solid growth across all areas of our business. Our core telecommunications business is showing excellent growth in data ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34071]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're generating solid growth across all areas of our business. Our core telecommunications business is showing excellent growth in data services for business customers, and in additional lines and calling features for consumers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest hurdle is those that have relevant information may be afraid to come forward, ... PC makers may have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39997]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest hurdle is those that have relevant information may be afraid to come forward, ... PC makers may have a lot of useful information, but if they rely on Microsoft, there may be some reluctance to come forward. Hopefully, this will show the government is serious and those companies will go forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24517]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! nature's noblest gift--my gray-goose quill! Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will,  Torn from thy parent-bird to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! nature's noblest gift--my gray-goose quill! Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will,  Torn from thy parent-bird to form a pen,   That might instrument of little men!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young fellows will be young fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young fellows will be young fellows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main,  Another plank encountered,   Meets, touches, parts again; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main,  Another plank encountered,   Meets, touches, parts again;    So tossed, and drifting ever,     On life's unresting sea,      Men meet, and greet, and sever,       Parting eternally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By labor fire is got out of stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23946]]></link><description><![CDATA[By labor fire is got out of stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even with our best efforts to motivate our folks, it was difficult to get people out to vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even with our best efforts to motivate our folks, it was difficult to get people out to vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19659]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we win the next two games, we should be in the playoffs. If we go 1-1 against Tracy before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34670]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we win the next two games, we should be in the playoffs. If we go 1-1 against Tracy before finishing the regular season at Lincoln, its going to be real close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34670</guid></item></channel></rss>