<?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[He always seemed to try to impress you by show. He didn't seem to have a lot of depth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42542]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always seemed to try to impress you by show. He didn't seem to have a lot of depth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23057]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24294]]></link><description><![CDATA[How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52769]]></link><description><![CDATA[A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In spite of the Gateway announcement, there seems to be some firming in demand for PCs and flash memory. Pricing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28347]]></link><description><![CDATA[In spite of the Gateway announcement, there seems to be some firming in demand for PCs and flash memory. Pricing is starting to improve. And for IT services, capacity utilization is finally starting to improve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ran a post, ran straight past the safety and when I saw the ball in the air, I knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39886]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ran a post, ran straight past the safety and when I saw the ball in the air, I knew it was over after that,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. - David HockneyrnListening is a positive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. - David HockneyrnListening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14771]]></link><description><![CDATA[My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- it gives a lovely light!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  When all is done, the hell of hells, the torment of torments, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  When all is done, the hell of hells, the torment of torments, is the everlasting absence of God, and the everlasting impossibility of returning to his presence; sayes the Apostle, it is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Yet there was a case, in which David found an ease, to fall into the hands of God, to scape the hands of men: When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearefull thing, to fall into the hands of the living God; but to fall out of the hands of the living God, is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was nice to swing the bats and get some hits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32446]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was nice to swing the bats and get some hits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have a great idea, have a lot of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66841]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have a great idea, have a lot of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always been Tom's philosophy and to this day that if we are going to do it -- we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always been Tom's philosophy and to this day that if we are going to do it -- we are going to do it right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much;  Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind,   And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16471]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A black sheep is a biting beast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A black sheep is a biting beast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48135]]></link><description><![CDATA[He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18323]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60225]]></link><description><![CDATA[In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank the tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are in hand-to-hand conflict with the world, the flesh, and the devil himself, neat little Biblical confectionery is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6810]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are in hand-to-hand conflict with the world, the flesh, and the devil himself, neat little Biblical confectionery is like shooting lions with a pea-shooter; God needs a man who will let go and deliver blows right and left as hard as he can hit, in the power of the Holy Ghost. Nothing but forked-lightning Christians will count.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12789]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936   [The Christian] refuses to give his heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936   [The Christian] refuses to give his heart to, or be taken in by, the values and pleasures off this passing world. He does not hesitate to use all that is good and beautiful and true, partly because he knows that his God gives him "richly all things to enjoy", and partly because he knows that in all life's impermanent beauties and pleasures, there is the promise of the real and permanent which he is thoroughly convinced will exceed his wildest expectations. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip will be good for all students. There will be no more obstacles, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip will be good for all students. There will be no more obstacles, no more checkpoints,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says "Amen" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says "Amen" and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let all things be done decently and in order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let all things be done decently and in order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61171]]></link><description><![CDATA[I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? He was all for love and a little for the bottle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? He was all for love and a little for the bottle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16256]]></link><description><![CDATA[The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with joyful wing,  Our annual visit o'er the globe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with joyful wing,  Our annual visit o'er the globe,   Companions of the spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody trips over mountains.  It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.  Pass all the pebbles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody trips over mountains.  It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.  Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55178]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[K is for KENGHIS KHAN. _He_ was a very _nice_ person. History has no record of him. There is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56837]]></link><description><![CDATA[K is for KENGHIS KHAN. _He_ was a very _nice_ person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank you, pretty cow, that made Pleasant milk to soak my bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank you, pretty cow, that made Pleasant milk to soak my bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We worked hard all year and tried to set an example for our people back home. Just because we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36500]]></link><description><![CDATA[We worked hard all year and tried to set an example for our people back home. Just because we are a small school, we don't have to follow the mold of other schools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14812]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1064]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Date sideways, never up or down. sideways is usually a more comfortable position for both players and one of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Date sideways, never up or down. sideways is usually a more comfortable position for both players and one of the players can be heads up or heads down. in this position, any significant height difference of either player is minimilized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't feel good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't feel good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread, and Thou  Beside me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45467]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread, and Thou  Beside me singing in the Wilderness--   On, Wilderness were Paradise enow!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45467</guid></item></channel></rss>