<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matilda told such dreadful lies It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matilda told such dreadful lies It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot command nature except by obeying her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43836]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot command nature except by obeying her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet  Detegere vultus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18477]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet  Detegere vultus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It moved me enormously. I kept thinking about the terrible things that man was able to do to other men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41430]]></link><description><![CDATA[It moved me enormously. I kept thinking about the terrible things that man was able to do to other men - and keeps on doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21339]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13717]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25046]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This map is truly a new window on the Antarctic continent, providing new beginnings in our Earth science studies there, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35712]]></link><description><![CDATA[This map is truly a new window on the Antarctic continent, providing new beginnings in our Earth science studies there,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of good players here, so I'm happy to be where I am. After beating the No. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36697]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of good players here, so I'm happy to be where I am. After beating the No. 4 seed in the first round, I've grown in confidence. I've learned how to fight for the important points.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3698]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52217]]></link><description><![CDATA[...definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9358]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle   We may suffer the sins of our brother; we do not need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle   We may suffer the sins of our brother; we do not need to judge. This is a mercy for the Christian; for when does sin ever occur in the community that he must not examine and blame himself for his own unfaithfulness in prayer and intercession, his lack of brotherly service, of fraternal reproof and encouragement -- indeed, for his own personal sin and spiritual laxity, by which he has done injury to himself, the fellowship, and the brethren? Since every sin of a member burdens and indicts the whole community, the congregation rejoices, in the midst of all the pain and the burden that the brother's sin inflicts, that it has the privilege of bearing and forgiving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22904]]></link><description><![CDATA[The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60410]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3030]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did not know if he was allowed to celebrate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40193]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did not know if he was allowed to celebrate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't compromise yourself, you're all you've got. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't compromise yourself, you're all you've got.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give up control even if it means the employees have to make some mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give up control even if it means the employees have to make some mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head,  And learning wiser grow without his books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head,  And learning wiser grow without his books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mentalhabit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mentalhabit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689 Continuing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689 Continuing a short series on Romans 8: Romans 8:14,16. Ephesians 1:13,14. The Witnessing and Sealing Spirit Why should the children of a king   Go mourning all their days? Great Comforter, descend and bring   Some tokens of thy grace. Dost though not dwell in all thy saints,   And seal the heirs of heaven? When wilt thou banish my complaints,   And shew my sins forgiven? Assure my conscience of her part   In the Redeemer's blood; And bear thy witness with my heart,   That I am born of God. Thou are the earnest of his love,   The pledge of joys to come; And thy soft wings, celestial Dove,   Will safe convey me home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She swore, i' faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61990]]></link><description><![CDATA[She swore, i' faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iron sharpeth iron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iron sharpeth iron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65967]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18287]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. [A morning sun and a wine-bred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13781]]></link><description><![CDATA[A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. [A morning sun and a wine-bred child and a Latin-bred woman seldom end well.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the forest primeval. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59687]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the forest primeval.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good;  Kind hearts are more than coronets, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good;  Kind hearts are more than coronets,   And simple faith than Norman blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is definitely true that having a common foe does give you something to shoot at. I'm just hoping that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34577]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is definitely true that having a common foe does give you something to shoot at. I'm just hoping that we don't fall into a pattern of simply playing catch-up with Microsoft, which is a danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50372]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why not just walk over to Vanguard and buy the S&P 500 index fund? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why not just walk over to Vanguard and buy the S&P 500 index fund?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a big win because today we found a way to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32864]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big win because today we found a way to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Annuit coepis. [He (God) approves our undertakings.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Annuit coepis. [He (God) approves our undertakings.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems like the market is obsessing on this bond market fallout, which was somewhat precipitated by the move to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36832]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems like the market is obsessing on this bond market fallout, which was somewhat precipitated by the move to raise (interest rates) in Japan. A lot of the fuel that has been used to invest in this bond market has been derived from 'easy money' in Japan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36832</guid></item></channel></rss>