<?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[Embarrassment of riches. [Fr., Embarras des richesse.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Embarrassment of riches. [Fr., Embarras des richesse.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42879]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/844]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be a good move to endorse the first African-American presiding officer and an Italian-Irish soccer mom from Great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40843]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be a good move to endorse the first African-American presiding officer and an Italian-Irish soccer mom from Great Neck. We're poster children for the New York State Democratic primary voters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A winner is someone who recognizes his God- given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A winner is someone who recognizes his God- given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49330]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acquisition is significant because it contains stunning ancient redwood trees in an area of the redwood range where there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acquisition is significant because it contains stunning ancient redwood trees in an area of the redwood range where there is relatively little old growth left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got blamed for penalty after penalty after penalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36133]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got blamed for penalty after penalty after penalty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28300]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So I am interested in acting, but offers that have come in are ‘small town girl wants to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31765]]></link><description><![CDATA[So I am interested in acting, but offers that have come in are ‘small town girl wants to be a singer, has dreams and aspirations, makes it as a star.’ JLo could pull that off, give it to her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53665]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way  Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way  Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18419]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2426]]></link><description><![CDATA[America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! -King Henry V. Prologue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55944]]></link><description><![CDATA[O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! -King Henry V. Prologue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54211]]></link><description><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule?   - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the flower for which love is the honey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the flower for which love is the honey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The destruction of the poor is their poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The destruction of the poor is their poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2051]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains;  A graver fact, enlisted on your side, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57914]]></link><description><![CDATA[A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains;  A graver fact, enlisted on your side,   May furnish illustration, well applied;    But sedentary weavers of long tales     Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne, And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45708]]></link><description><![CDATA[With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne, And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most who serves best," and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. -B. F. Harris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times I think and at times I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63670]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times I think and at times I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it. You can imagine how valuable this system would be if you were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it. You can imagine how valuable this system would be if you were aquatic, because water is so conductive. But it doesn't work on land - air doesn't conduct electricity as well. When it happens, it's called a lightning bolt and you don't need special receptors to sense it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601 Beginning a short series on the Bible:   Arguments ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601 Beginning a short series on the Bible:   Arguments for the existence of God are very restricted; some of them are more restricted and limited than others. They do not prove beyond all question the existence of the God of the Bible. Furthermore, it must be remembered that man's mind, his thinking process, has been affected by his fall into sin. This means that there are definite limitations to God's revelation in nature. The problem is not in the revelation but in the receiver of the revelation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. - "A Word to the Wizards".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.   - Philip James Bailey, Festus ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.   - Philip James Bailey, Festus]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do all things with love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do all things with love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24054]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad. [Lat., Id commune malum; semel insanivimus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21022]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad. [Lat., Id commune malum; semel insanivimus omnes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need every partner we can find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33382]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need every partner we can find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration and familiarity are strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration and familiarity are strangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The level of commitment and degree of responsibility that people took changed dramatically. What it's about is that the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38380]]></link><description><![CDATA[The level of commitment and degree of responsibility that people took changed dramatically. What it's about is that the people who actually create the wealth share the wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal. In less than 24 hours, we completely filled our (greeting) time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal. In less than 24 hours, we completely filled our (greeting) time slots at PTIA and gave out our entire supply of posters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47261]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11057]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25152]]></link><description><![CDATA[No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too technical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46033]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, misery makes sport to mock itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42772]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, misery makes sport to mock itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what avail'd this temperance, not complete Against another object more enticing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50650]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what avail'd this temperance, not complete Against another object more enticing?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50650</guid></item></channel></rss>