<?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[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901   What are our lame praises in comparison with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901   What are our lame praises in comparison with His love? Nothing, and less than nothing; but love will stammer rather than be dumb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64362]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had our chance and Phil hit a screamer, but they made the play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37425]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had our chance and Phil hit a screamer, but they made the play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which of them shall I take? Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed,  If both remain alive. To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which of them shall I take? Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed,  If both remain alive. To take the widow   Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril;    And hardly shall I carry out my side,     Her husband being alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55022]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography, to change their site;  Make former times shake hands with latter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography, to change their site;  Make former times shake hands with latter,   And that which was before come after;    But those that write in rhyme still make     The one verse for the other's sake;      For one for sense, and one for rhyme,       I think's sufficient at one time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All kinds of cooperation with Israel should be stopped and the boycott should be reactivated, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29892]]></link><description><![CDATA[All kinds of cooperation with Israel should be stopped and the boycott should be reactivated,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big things have small beginnings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big things have small beginnings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had a good opinion of advice, Like all who give and eke receive it gratis,  For which small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/775]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had a good opinion of advice, Like all who give and eke receive it gratis,  For which small thanks are still the market price,   Even where the article at highest rate is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time the U.S. bond market has not been leading other bond markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28438]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time the U.S. bond market has not been leading other bond markets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That no obedience but a perfect one will satisfy God, I hold with all my heart and strength; but that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8113]]></link><description><![CDATA[That no obedience but a perfect one will satisfy God, I hold with all my heart and strength; but that there is none else that He cares for, is one of the lies of the enemy. What father is not pleased with the first tottering attempt of his little one to walk? What father would be satisfied with anything but the manly step of the full-grown son?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55328</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[Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always strive for that which is forbidden, and desire that which is denied us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50798]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always strive for that which is forbidden, and desire that which is denied us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26899]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are suffering. [Lat., Ingratus unus miseris omnibus nocet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20904]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are suffering. [Lat., Ingratus unus miseris omnibus nocet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forceÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âwe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41121]]></link><description><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forceÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âwe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval notion that there is an aristocracy and a people, and the people want a piece of what the aristocracy hadÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âa life subsidized enough to have a minimum of work and a maximum of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream in a pragmatic way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream in a pragmatic way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15799]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The holydays of joy are the vigils of sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51024]]></link><description><![CDATA[The holydays of joy are the vigils of sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were planning on the lowest figures projected. This [delay] doesn't affect us. It just delays your chance to start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34685]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were planning on the lowest figures projected. This [delay] doesn't affect us. It just delays your chance to start looking at [free-agent] players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41602]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really just believe that they themselves are good for nothing. I mean, how many leftists are animated by a quite reasonable self-loathing? In their hearts they know that they are not going to become scholars or inventors or industrialists or even ordinary good kind people. So they need a way to achieve that smugness for which the left is so justifiably famous. They need a way to achieve self-esteem without merit. Well, there is politics. In an egalitarian world everything will be controlled by politics, and politics requires no merit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63997]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold the turtle: He only makes progress when he stickshis neck out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold the turtle: He only makes progress when he stickshis neck out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the ship carrying living memories to the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19372]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secret of getting along -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12358]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secret of getting along -- whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54262]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du merite sans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27388]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du merite sans elevation mais il n'y a point d'elevation sans quelque merite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methought little space 'tween those hills intervened, But nearer,--more lofty,--more shaggy they seemed.  The clouds o'er their summits they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methought little space 'tween those hills intervened, But nearer,--more lofty,--more shaggy they seemed.  The clouds o'er their summits they calmly did rest,   And hung on the ether's invisible breast;    Than the vapours of earth they seemed purer, more bright,--     Oh! could they be clouds? 'Twas the necklace of night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27303]]></link><description><![CDATA[In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can\'t ride you unless your back is bent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discharge is my first. I love Black Flag and all those guys. And Ramones, of course. And then I like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discharge is my first. I love Black Flag and all those guys. And Ramones, of course. And then I like Blondie,.. a little lighter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This kid can do both well. We really saved us a pick by taking him because he can do both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38346]]></link><description><![CDATA[This kid can do both well. We really saved us a pick by taking him because he can do both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature uses as little as possible of anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature uses as little as possible of anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43825</guid></item></channel></rss>