<?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 trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21802]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One good analogy is worth three hours discussion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1933]]></link><description><![CDATA[One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere, in desolate, wind-swept space, In twilight land, in no man's land,  Two hurrying shapes met face to face ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere, in desolate, wind-swept space, In twilight land, in no man's land,  Two hurrying shapes met face to face   And bade each other stand.    "And who are you?" cried one, a-gape,     Shuddering in the glimmering light.      "I know not," said the second shape,       "I only died last night."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're driving an extra 10 miles for the same amount of tax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40912]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're driving an extra 10 miles for the same amount of tax.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9501]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a big deal for us all those corny things kids did in those days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33072]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big deal for us all those corny things kids did in those days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall, Dropped off gorged from a scheme ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51692]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall, Dropped off gorged from a scheme which left us flaccid and drained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The M-7 is the best performing car that Metro-North has ever had. It survived last winter without a single weather-related ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41658]]></link><description><![CDATA[The M-7 is the best performing car that Metro-North has ever had. It survived last winter without a single weather-related breakdown. It performed in today's storm without incident. The M-7 travels more than 700,000 miles without a breakdown, although the contract specified only 100,000 miles between breakdowns. The M-7 put Metro-North on track for a record on-time performance for 2005 of more than 97 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jade curtain ofwillow frondsparts world ofgreen earthfrom that of blue pondA grey curtainof morning mistseparates turquoise watersfrom blue skyA ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11263]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jade curtain ofwillow frondsparts world ofgreen earthfrom that of blue pondA grey curtainof morning mistseparates turquoise watersfrom blue skyA more slenderveil isat the portalhiding the paradiseof the immortal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you have done it is like a part of yourself that you've put together. I think a lot of the people here feel that way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57106</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[He who knows others is wise.He who knows himself is enlightened. - Tao Te Ching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17216]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows others is wise.He who knows himself is enlightened. - Tao Te Ching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All night the thirsty beach has listening lain With patience dumb,  Counting the slow, said moments of her pain; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59263]]></link><description><![CDATA[All night the thirsty beach has listening lain With patience dumb,  Counting the slow, said moments of her pain;   Now morn has come,    And with the morn the punctual tide again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  "Thou shalt not" is the beginning of wisdom. But the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  "Thou shalt not" is the beginning of wisdom. But the end of wisdom, the new law, is, "Thou shalt." To be Christian is to be old? Not a bit of it. To be Christian is to be reborn, and free, and unafraid, and immortally young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other than the U.S. payrolls data, there isn't any fresh market-moving factor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other than the U.S. payrolls data, there isn't any fresh market-moving factor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The move shows confidence by the leadership that we are not guilty and don't fear anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The move shows confidence by the leadership that we are not guilty and don't fear anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are aware of the situation and are in contact with the vendor to remedy the situation during this time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38941]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are aware of the situation and are in contact with the vendor to remedy the situation during this time of high caller volume. Based on past experience of implementing this system in other states, the clients that opt out of the automated phone system was much lower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in life is connected somehow. You may have to dig deep to find it but its there. Everything is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in life is connected somehow. You may have to dig deep to find it but its there. Everything is the same even though its different. Somehow everything connects back with your life. The faces in certain places may be different, but the situation is the same. Irony is a hidden factor that creeps around us in life, letting its presence felt only after it has left. Picture back to a year ago and the situation you were in. Look at how things are different yet somehow everything it still in someway cognate. Everything connects together to form the balance of life, to maintain structure. Change is and always will be inevitable, but everything is relative, and all the moments and times in your life will come back around again, you just might find yourself on the other side of the coin. Things are always changing, as fast as everything stays the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,  To conquer France, his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,  To conquer France, his true inheritance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [Proverbs 28:20]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15949]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [Proverbs 28:20].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this particular! Some of them speak not. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this particular! Some of them speak not. They are books in which not a line is written, save perhaps a date.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62047]]></link><description><![CDATA[High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in.Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in.Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1448]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you really know the commissioners wishes unless we vote on something? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you really know the commissioners wishes unless we vote on something?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is only afraid of the people one cares for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5248]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is only afraid of the people one cares for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the mediocre are always at their best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the mediocre are always at their best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will continue to brandish our weapons in the face of the occupation (Israel) as Gaza is only the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will continue to brandish our weapons in the face of the occupation (Israel) as Gaza is only the first step towards the liberation of all of the land of Palestine,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain we call old notions fudge And bend our conscience to our dealing.  The Ten Commandments will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59131]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain we call old notions fudge And bend our conscience to our dealing.  The Ten Commandments will not budge   And stealing will continue stealing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[not to allow Lebanon to be a passage for conspiracy against Syria. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29896]]></link><description><![CDATA[not to allow Lebanon to be a passage for conspiracy against Syria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, before I commit a sin, it seems to me so shallow that I may wade through it dry-shod from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, before I commit a sin, it seems to me so shallow that I may wade through it dry-shod from any guiltiness; but when I have committed it, it often seems so deep that I cannot escape without drowning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14587]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55568]]></link><description><![CDATA[For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be receptive of that gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17409</guid></item></channel></rss>