<?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[If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9378]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54271]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more specific you are, the more general it'll be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to feel proud of your teammates for coming back and playing. At Iowa we just gave up. Tonight, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37105]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to feel proud of your teammates for coming back and playing. At Iowa we just gave up. Tonight, we didn't give up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  Some day, we hope, study will be as much a part of churchmanship as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  Some day, we hope, study will be as much a part of churchmanship as worship and financial support are today. To be sure, the church of Jesus Christ must be more than just a "studying" church. But it cannot be less than a studying church and still be faithful to its Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concept behind the bill is something that everyone agrees on . I think we just disagree on how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concept behind the bill is something that everyone agrees on . I think we just disagree on how to get there. It's going to take a lot of discussion and education on both sides to get this done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were there within six to seven minutes after we got the call. The students and faculty were already evacuated. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were there within six to seven minutes after we got the call. The students and faculty were already evacuated. We immediately called for mutual aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour,  And gather honey all the day   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3914]]></link><description><![CDATA[How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour,  And gather honey all the day   From every opening flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind: So flewed, so sanded, and their heads are hung  With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19889]]></link><description><![CDATA[My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind: So flewed, so sanded, and their heads are hung  With ears that sweep away the morning dew;   Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls;    Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells,     Each under each.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most tragic cases are the ones where you find out someone was desperately trying to get help and didn't, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33040]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most tragic cases are the ones where you find out someone was desperately trying to get help and didn't, and as a result, someone died.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58365]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24559]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19307]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves,  And, like living coals, the apples  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3562]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves,  And, like living coals, the apples   Burned among the withering leaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better do nothing than do ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better do nothing than do ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53349]]></link><description><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the words- And never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19789]]></link><description><![CDATA["Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the words- And never stops- at all- .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15825]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . I want to achieve it through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . I want to achieve it through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58761]]></link><description><![CDATA[A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a major victory in the war against caviar criminals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37864]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a major victory in the war against caviar criminals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57578]]></link><description><![CDATA[You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for five.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13370]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to point out that our responsibility is a relative one only, for as we think of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7598]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to point out that our responsibility is a relative one only, for as we think of the world-wide disintegration of the human family, the prospect before us could easily fill us with alarm and despondency, if we were not sure first of the absolute sovereignty of God who (I speak reverently) knows what He is doing in conducting this enormous experiment that we call life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26054]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24731]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do whatever you do intensely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do whatever you do intensely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has certainly been an exceptional year. The index surged to record highs that no one had expected. High oil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28925]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has certainly been an exceptional year. The index surged to record highs that no one had expected. High oil prices played a pivotal role in the market's magnificent run, as they did in stock markets in neighboring oil-rich Gulf States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16215]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite 'em,   And so proceed ad infinitum.    Thus every poet in his kind     Is bit by him that comes behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty:--  Was thy dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13058]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty:--  Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't think it would hit, so we didn't pack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42635]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't think it would hit, so we didn't pack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17043]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9764]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your great umbrage would care to meet my high dudgeon at 12 paces, I would be happy to entertain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30043]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your great umbrage would care to meet my high dudgeon at 12 paces, I would be happy to entertain you at dawn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59847]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41204]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55044]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[get the message out that limbs can be saved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35037]]></link><description><![CDATA[get the message out that limbs can be saved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27586</guid></item></channel></rss>