<?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[A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63997]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The choice was between shutting down service or delaying service, because the recovery operation would have blocked the yard, too. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41663]]></link><description><![CDATA[The choice was between shutting down service or delaying service, because the recovery operation would have blocked the yard, too. So we decided to wait until after the morning rush to do the job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm on the interstate, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm on the interstate,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a museum and I'll fill it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a museum and I'll fill it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give an inch, he'll take an ell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give an inch, he'll take an ell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61523]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41203]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3488]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4190]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scripture?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope! of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope! of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not need; they have smaller families. It's lifestyle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35891]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not need; they have smaller families. It's lifestyle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O happy skylark springing Up to the broad, blue sky,  Too fearless in thy winging,   Too gladsome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24102]]></link><description><![CDATA[O happy skylark springing Up to the broad, blue sky,  Too fearless in thy winging,   Too gladsome in thy singing,    Thou also soon shalt lie     Where no sweet notes are ringing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63982]]></link><description><![CDATA[True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... And what about Zombies? You never hear from Zombies! That's the trouble with Zombies, they're unreliable! I say if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62680]]></link><description><![CDATA[... And what about Zombies? You never hear from Zombies! That's the trouble with Zombies, they're unreliable! I say if you're going to go for the Angel bullshit you might as well go for the Zombie package as well..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52744]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to watch him practice. It was a sort of Jimmy Stewart style. Denis was a very soft-spoken, self-effacing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34941]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to watch him practice. It was a sort of Jimmy Stewart style. Denis was a very soft-spoken, self-effacing, overly modest person who left many flashier lawyers in his wake as he persuaded judges and juries alike that what he said could be trusted and should carry the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On many levels, the British presence is more sustainable. It is safer in the Shiite south, and casualties are low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32534]]></link><description><![CDATA[On many levels, the British presence is more sustainable. It is safer in the Shiite south, and casualties are low.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still in the early stages (of recovery). The market is still suffering from excess capacity on the North Atlantic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31739]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still in the early stages (of recovery). The market is still suffering from excess capacity on the North Atlantic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shock. Disbelief. This is a loss to the entire Jewish community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shock. Disbelief. This is a loss to the entire Jewish community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,  For there thy habitation is the heart-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,  For there thy habitation is the heart--   The heart which love of thee alone can bind;    And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd--     To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom,      Their country conquers with their martyrdom.   - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day, some day of days, threading the street With idle, heedless pace,  Unlooking for such grace,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day, some day of days, threading the street With idle, heedless pace,  Unlooking for such grace,   I shall behold your face!    Some day, some day of days, thus may we meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is often attended with danger. [Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is often attended with danger. [Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/748]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their hearts sweat with undivulged guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their hearts sweat with undivulged guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this he meant that when this doctrine is understood, believed, and preached, as it was in New-Testament times, the church stands in the grace of God and is alive; but where it is neglected, overlaid, or denied, ... the church falls from grace and its life drains away, leaving it in a state of darkness and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28752]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I invented the cordless extension cord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23016]]></link><description><![CDATA[I invented the cordless extension cord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give--which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give--which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sort of takes the place of minutes. When there's any club business it's in the newsletter. It used to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sort of takes the place of minutes. When there's any club business it's in the newsletter. It used to be monthly but now it's quarterly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something attempted, something done Has earned a night's repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something attempted, something done Has earned a night's repose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65055]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50450]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9362</guid></item></channel></rss>