<?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[One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9553]]></link><description><![CDATA[One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. - The Zykovs, 1914.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28752]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 2005 FBI Computer Crime Survey should serve as a wake-up call to every company in America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 2005 FBI Computer Crime Survey should serve as a wake-up call to every company in America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea hath fish for every man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16058]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea hath fish for every man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there are times when patience proves at fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45712]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there are times when patience proves at fault.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For two days, George (Karl) has been constantly stressing that this is a team that we'll be playing against. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31081]]></link><description><![CDATA[For two days, George (Karl) has been constantly stressing that this is a team that we'll be playing against. We kind of wanted to make a statement that if we play you in the playoffs, this is what you're going to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point, we have grave concerns because of the expense that small businesses might incur in trying to comply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35446]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point, we have grave concerns because of the expense that small businesses might incur in trying to comply with the ordinance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28886]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where upper level students were brought into E.J. Thomas for a performance. What the Children's Concert Society did was share the cost with us, so although we were just doing excerpts, we could do it in a full production sense with orchestra and costumes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50007]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37512]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout -- not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11358]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think she'll be excited when she gets the 3,000. But, seriously, I think it's awesome that she's doing that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35241]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think she'll be excited when she gets the 3,000. But, seriously, I think it's awesome that she's doing that. For your coach to do something like that to make our senior day special, I am just really thankful that she would go out on a limb to do something like that. When she told the team, I was really surprised and kind of shocked but it just shows the kind of person she is and we really appreciate what she's doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12926]]></link><description><![CDATA[One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure when Chuck Schumer needs information from the Congressional Budget Office, he doesn't have to check with Harry Reid, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40841]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure when Chuck Schumer needs information from the Congressional Budget Office, he doesn't have to check with Harry Reid, the Democratic Senate leader. I expect to be calling Mr. Naughton directly as I always have in the past. If she wants to know what I'm doing, she can always call me. I'll be happy to respond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18869]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person must stand very tall to see their own fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45082]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay,  And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57286]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay,  And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1315]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46075]]></link><description><![CDATA[... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Pearl S. Buck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - The Quest for Certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - The Quest for Certainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20470]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18410]]></link><description><![CDATA[All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18610]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.  .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The university is very concerned by this disturbance and any injury to students, ... We will reevaluate the security procedures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The university is very concerned by this disturbance and any injury to students, ... We will reevaluate the security procedures for this type of event and make every effort to assure that it will not happen again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lesser you hear that people say about you, the more you succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lesser you hear that people say about you, the more you succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As he cobbled and hammered from morning till dark, With the footgear to mend on his knees,  Stitching patches, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56210]]></link><description><![CDATA[As he cobbled and hammered from morning till dark, With the footgear to mend on his knees,  Stitching patches, or pegging on soles as he sang,   Out of tune, ancient catches and glees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to do something, you will see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28745]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to do something, you will see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24677]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faire words makes mee looke to my purse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a facility we'd like filled and you have one you'd like to see stay filled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a facility we'd like filled and you have one you'd like to see stay filled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next day is never so good as the day before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next day is never so good as the day before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's almost at the top, but not quite. There's room for some growth. He's already had such a tremendous impact, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38624]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's almost at the top, but not quite. There's room for some growth. He's already had such a tremendous impact, but I think he's come close to maxing out the benefit for golf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain does anyone pretend that he will be a martyr for his religion, when he will not rule an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7336]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain does anyone pretend that he will be a martyr for his religion, when he will not rule an appetite nor restrain lust nor subdue a passion nor cross his covetousness and ambition for the sake of it, and in hope of that eternal life which God that cannot lie hath promised. He that refuses to do the less is not like to do the greater. It is very improbable that a man will die for his religion, when he cannot be persuaded to live according to it. He that cannot take up a resolution to live a saint, hath a demonstration within himself that he is never like to die a martyr.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7336</guid></item></channel></rss>