<?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[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   Almighty and most merciful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   Almighty and most merciful Father, by Whose providence my life has been prolonged, and Who has granted me now to begin another year of probation, vouchsafe me such assistance of Thy Holy Spirit, that the continuance of my life may not add to the measure of my guilt, but that I may so repent of the days and years passed in neglect of the duties which Thou hast set before me, in vain thoughts, in sloth, and in folly, that I may apply my heart to true wisdom, by diligence redeem the time lost, and by repentance, obtain pardon, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4681]]></link><description><![CDATA[To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We told him he could play and we would watch. That was the first time he broke down and said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41214]]></link><description><![CDATA[We told him he could play and we would watch. That was the first time he broke down and said he couldn't and couldn't and couldn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44481]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PC;It plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PC;It plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem threw it,I'm sure your pleased too no,Its letter perfect in it's weigh,My checker tolled me sew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. Butthe spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21182]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. Butthe spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of peace is in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33240]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64716]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just got a new theory of eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just got a new theory of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bear and the Two TravelersTwo men were traveling together, when a Bear suddenly met them on their path. One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bear and the Two TravelersTwo men were traveling together, when a Bear suddenly met them on their path. One of them climbed up quickly into a tree and concealed himself in the branches. The other, seeing that he must be attacked, fell flat on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his snout, and smelt him all over, he held his breath, and feigned the appearance of death as much as he could. The Bear soon left him, for it is said he will not touch a dead body. When he was quite gone, the other Traveler descended from the tree, and jocularly inquired of his friend what it was the Bear had whispered in his ear. He gave me this advice, his companion replied. Never travel with a friend who deserts you at the approach of danger. Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47127]]></link><description><![CDATA[A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're now looking at going over there to begin discussions. It does require bilateral discussions with another country, but we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're now looking at going over there to begin discussions. It does require bilateral discussions with another country, but we're cautiously looking at being there by the fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea was to show that if his privacy wasn't safe, none of ours were, and it clearly proved the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38658]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea was to show that if his privacy wasn't safe, none of ours were, and it clearly proved the point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd, wakes the bitter memory  Of what he was, what is, and what must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd, wakes the bitter memory  Of what he was, what is, and what must be   Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relativity applies to physics, not ethics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old father antic the law. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old father antic the law. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;  So perish all, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;  So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow   For others' good, or melt at others' woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without attending to the main ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without attending to the main thing it is about; like reading Burke with no interest in politics, or reading the Aeneid with no interest in Rome... But there is a saner sense in which the Bible -- since it is, after all, literature -- cannot properly be read except as literature, and the different parts of it as the different sorts of literature they are. Most emphatically, the Psalms must be read as poems -- as lyrics, with all the licenses and all the formalities, the hyperboles, the emotional rather than logical connections, which are proper to lyric poetry... Otherwise we shall miss what is in them and think we see what is not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please provide the date of your death. (From An IRS Letter) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please provide the date of your death. (From An IRS Letter)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27550]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14904]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although many machines have been disinfected, we're certainly not out of the woods yet. Many machines may still be infected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although many machines have been disinfected, we're certainly not out of the woods yet. Many machines may still be infected without their owner's knowledge. The amount of media attention regarding the destructiveness and rapid propagation of the worm are accelerating action to block and remove the virus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not is our stars,  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not is our stars,  But in ourselves, that we are underlings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55558]]></link><description><![CDATA[My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -Lauren Bacall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -Lauren Bacall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast;  Is that portentous phrase, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast;  Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have to minimize the use of home equity for short term financial needs. Get your budget in order. Home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35349]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have to minimize the use of home equity for short term financial needs. Get your budget in order. Home equity lines of credit are for long-term financial needs. They were not meant to buy cars and trips and fuel overspending.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5663]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's as important as anything I've ever done as owner. To have the next great big man of the NBA, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40680]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's as important as anything I've ever done as owner. To have the next great big man of the NBA, it's very important for the team and the city. We're trying to win championships, and anything that takes away from that concentration (such as contract issues) hurts. I think we can be one of the top three teams in the West. We have a great team and great coach. And we have an asset that a lot of teams don't have with Yao in the middle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosophies’, and that from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24231]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosophies’, and that from them arise most of the old ‘philosophical’ fights and arguments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman Which gives the stern'st good-night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman Which gives the stern'st good-night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19611]]></link><description><![CDATA[My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day  Can tell the definition   So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day  Can tell the definition   So clear of victory,    As he, defeated, dying,     On whose forbidden ear      The distant strains of triumph       Break agonized and clear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can--  No, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness   Of thy sharp envy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water pressure is very high on these earth-made dams and there are more in danger of collapse as the floods ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water pressure is very high on these earth-made dams and there are more in danger of collapse as the floods last a long time and the levels are decreasing very slowly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34376</guid></item></channel></rss>