<?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[We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37259]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as many people (with disabilities) here as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61868]]></link><description><![CDATA[She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle--and is not a buff jerkin in a most sweet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51295]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle--and is not a buff jerkin in a most sweet robe of durance?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overall, the mortgage approvals and lending data indicate that the more robust housing market activity evident in the second half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overall, the mortgage approvals and lending data indicate that the more robust housing market activity evident in the second half of 2005 has continued into 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; But riches fineless is as poor as winter  To him that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; But riches fineless is as poor as winter  To him that ever fears he shall be poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27922]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58805]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going out and doing focus groups to find out that your customer wants blue buttons on the screen instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going out and doing focus groups to find out that your customer wants blue buttons on the screen instead of red buttons is useful. But it's much more useful to have your customers creating those buttons beside you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56818]]></link><description><![CDATA[When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56818</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boast during the day; be humble at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boast during the day; be humble at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10242]]></link><description><![CDATA[God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No new troops were added, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34271]]></link><description><![CDATA[No new troops were added,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20198]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini esse dixerunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our own poverty and weakness -- today pleased and comforted with the seeming firmness and strength of our own pious tempers and fancying ourselves to be somewhat. Tomorrow, fallen into our own mire, we are dejected, but not humbled; we grieve, but it is only the grief of pride at the seeing our perfection not to be such as we had vainly imagined. And thus it will be, till the whole turn of our minds be so changed that we as fully see and know our inability to have any goodness of our own as to have a life of our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is a second self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is a second self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her physical-education teacher in junior high was always impressed with her running talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her physical-education teacher in junior high was always impressed with her running talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our investment portfolio continues to contribute positively to the group's result, despite an increase in Foxtel losses, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our investment portfolio continues to contribute positively to the group's result, despite an increase in Foxtel losses,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cocaine is God's way of telling you you're making too much money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cocaine is God's way of telling you you're making too much money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one thing to have these services down the road; it's quite another when you're already providing these products. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37611]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one thing to have these services down the road; it's quite another when you're already providing these products.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43972]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle; for this is a naturally pleasing to all, and everyone willingly enjoyeth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable thing.  ... Thomas à Kempis July 25, 2000 Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25280]]></link><description><![CDATA[To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Past lives o'er again, In its effects, and to the guilty spirit  The ever-frowning Present is its image. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Past lives o'er again, In its effects, and to the guilty spirit  The ever-frowning Present is its image.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People in the Tug Valley can identify because they've been through hellacious floods. People here are willing to help however ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32975]]></link><description><![CDATA[People in the Tug Valley can identify because they've been through hellacious floods. People here are willing to help however they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. [Fr., L'arbre de la liberte ne croit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. [Fr., L'arbre de la liberte ne croit qu'arrose par le sang des tyrans.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all you've had for the past three weeks is pizza, tuna fish looks pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41698]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all you've had for the past three weeks is pizza, tuna fish looks pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16716]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16023]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose nature is so far from doing harms, That he suspects none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose nature is so far from doing harms, That he suspects none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is the foundation of courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is the foundation of courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free,  Whilst in the confidence of pray'r ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free,  Whilst in the confidence of pray'r   My soul took hold on thee.   - Joseph Addison,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47406]]></link><description><![CDATA[...a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bid the Devil take the slowest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bid the Devil take the slowest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15408]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15408</guid></item></channel></rss>