<?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[The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumor is not always wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rumor is not always wrong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6081]]></link><description><![CDATA[In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't say that one is technically better than the other, but polymer is in an earlier state of development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't say that one is technically better than the other, but polymer is in an earlier state of development.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Book and Heart Shall never part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45567]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Book and Heart Shall never part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I'm giving a little something back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31422]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I'm giving a little something back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the base of the eyelash is an invisiblemite.Ask not what your mite can do for youbut what you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26637]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the base of the eyelash is an invisiblemite.Ask not what your mite can do for youbut what you can do for your mite.And remember, mite makes right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers;  Body and brain we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58129]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers;  Body and brain we were sound as they,   But the prizes were not ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49125]]></link><description><![CDATA[An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thought is often the best.   - Bishop Joseph Butler, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thought is often the best.   - Bishop Joseph Butler,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination rules the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39147]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7994]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God -- ah, then things must be critical indeed!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54477]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a Prince as soon as his groom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember seeing those boats training and thinking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29997]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember seeing those boats training and thinking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64792]]></link><description><![CDATA[My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An' I thowt 'twur the will o' the Lord, but Miss Annie she said it wur draains, For she hedn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56245]]></link><description><![CDATA[An' I thowt 'twur the will o' the Lord, but Miss Annie she said it wur draains, For she hedn't naw coomfut in 'er, an' arn'd naw thanks fur 'er paains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had come to know about their protest plan and had made arrangements in advance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41363]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had come to know about their protest plan and had made arrangements in advance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10000]]></link><description><![CDATA[They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By any measure, 2000 was a great year for Blockbuster, ... Building on the strength of 2000, we remain confident ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38633]]></link><description><![CDATA[By any measure, 2000 was a great year for Blockbuster, ... Building on the strength of 2000, we remain confident that we can continue generating solid cash earnings growth in 2001 and beyond, led by continued success in our retail store business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29087]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54198]]></link><description><![CDATA[True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65585]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44873]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,  And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one terminal dignity - love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25773]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one terminal dignity - love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61738]]></link><description><![CDATA[By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is a disappointment but not defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't want this to be the last game out there [Saturday]. Now I've got one more at least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't want this to be the last game out there [Saturday]. Now I've got one more at least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History: A distillation of rumor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19348]]></link><description><![CDATA[History: A distillation of rumor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33193]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45325]]></link><description><![CDATA[And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26977]]></link><description><![CDATA[of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/209]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence... and loathing seizes him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2727]]></link><description><![CDATA[If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. . . . It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29764]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50808]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Petty laws breed great crimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Petty laws breed great crimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were monitoring that system for days and days and days, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40852]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were monitoring that system for days and days and days,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the first quarter, the earnings surprises have been getting smaller and we expect that to continue based on anecdotal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the first quarter, the earnings surprises have been getting smaller and we expect that to continue based on anecdotal evidence that analysts know the economy's moving faster and all the pre-announcements that come out now,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39123</guid></item></channel></rss>