<?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 friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9387]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asylum of the oppressed of every nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Asylum of the oppressed of every nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are getting dozens of calls a day asking for details about the Medicare prescription-drug coverage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38701]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are getting dozens of calls a day asking for details about the Medicare prescription-drug coverage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strangers open up to you just as much as your friends, sometimes even more for whatever reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strangers open up to you just as much as your friends, sometimes even more for whatever reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407  The surest symbol of a heart not yet fully subdued ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407  The surest symbol of a heart not yet fully subdued to God and His will is going to be found in the areas of money, sex, and power: in wanting these things for ourselves. The surest symbol of spiritual earnestness will be the checkbook, the affections, and the ego-drive surrendered to Him. A disciple must have discipline. He must not be afraid of being asked by God for some of the time, the money, and the pleasure he has been in the habit of calling his "own". This does not mean that there will not be time for the family, and time for some healthy diversion. But it does mean that we are never -- on vacation, or wherever we may be -- exempt from our primary commitment to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14497]]></link><description><![CDATA[I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt. [Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere dediscenda.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24539]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt. [Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere dediscenda.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He threatens many that hath injured one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50415]]></link><description><![CDATA[He threatens many that hath injured one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/520]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17067]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2657]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long. [It., Non e il mondam romore alro che un fiato  Di vento, che vien quinci et or vien quindi,   E muta nome, perche muta lato.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14521]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17165]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans should not impose a solution, but this administration will finally have to make it clear what its vision for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans should not impose a solution, but this administration will finally have to make it clear what its vision for a two-state solution is. Just saying 'a two-state solution' is too ambiguous. The vision has to spell out the details on final status issues such as Palestinian refugees, borders and Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not going to leave the well dry. We've got a good group of young kids that have come along ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34221]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not going to leave the well dry. We've got a good group of young kids that have come along and they're going to be good again next year. That's what I wanted to see. I didn't want to see the program go down. We've got a chance to build it up again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured something out in 2004 and last year kind of carried it over. This year, I'm trying to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31504]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured something out in 2004 and last year kind of carried it over. This year, I'm trying to be consistent. I'm not a home run hitter. My job is just to drive in runs when they are there and just get on base and score anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need a powerful PC to run XP, which is why PC makers love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37005]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need a powerful PC to run XP, which is why PC makers love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19213]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66046]]></link><description><![CDATA[We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft has a tremendous amount of patience, which can be inspiring or distressing, depending on your point of view, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has a tremendous amount of patience, which can be inspiring or distressing, depending on your point of view, ... they will have waited so long for so little and have been willing to spend a long, long time in the red.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could hear it off the bat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40569]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could hear it off the bat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11511]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were just smart business moves to make. This network is a bit more agile and competitive when it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35282]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were just smart business moves to make. This network is a bit more agile and competitive when it is a smaller group.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge not, that ye be not judged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge not, that ye be not judged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65853]]></link><description><![CDATA[You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a very inferior farmer when he first begun . . . and he is now fast rising from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1969]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a very inferior farmer when he first begun . . . and he is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud  Is bright and shining:   I therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud  Is bright and shining:   I therefore turn my clouds about    And always wear them inside out     To show the lining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55986]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crux is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crux is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3646]]></link><description><![CDATA[By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always special to do that. Then to have it on your homecoming night, especially as a senior ... that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28802]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always special to do that. Then to have it on your homecoming night, especially as a senior ... that's even more special.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a great opportunity for our high school youth to give back to the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40825]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a great opportunity for our high school youth to give back to the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise day at night, and life at the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise day at night, and life at the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11510</guid></item></channel></rss>