<?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[A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46598]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Future Shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Future Shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. -Alvin Toffler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55497]]></link><description><![CDATA[From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59128]]></link><description><![CDATA[No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was flying. I was pulling away from Frank like he was standing still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was flying. I was pulling away from Frank like he was standing still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of patients we see come in asking for topical medicines because of wax burns and scars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40744]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of patients we see come in asking for topical medicines because of wax burns and scars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48139]]></link><description><![CDATA[President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think that day lost whose (low) descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done.  [Lat., Virtus sui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think that day lost whose (low) descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done.  [Lat., Virtus sui gloria.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27229]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully it'll be a guy we feel good about that can play in the Major Leagues someday. He'll probably be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully it'll be a guy we feel good about that can play in the Major Leagues someday. He'll probably be a little further away [than Phillips was].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It involves a lot of monitoring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40827]]></link><description><![CDATA[It involves a lot of monitoring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a morning raine leave not your journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49250]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a morning raine leave not your journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   "The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul" (Psa 19:7). Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   "The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul" (Psa 19:7). Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49276]]></link><description><![CDATA[God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software companies have sold off aggressively but some information technology managers have indicated a willingness to spend in that area. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Software companies have sold off aggressively but some information technology managers have indicated a willingness to spend in that area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28342</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[We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11066]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. For the goodman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is not in the bond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55607]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is not in the bond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. -John Schaar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise traveller never despises his own country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59575]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise traveller never despises his own country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did receive yesterday a letter from the Competition Bureau of Canada stating that it has begun an investigation into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36779]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did receive yesterday a letter from the Competition Bureau of Canada stating that it has begun an investigation into the activities of carriers that are engaged in the provision of international air cargo services to and from Canada.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/678]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11186]]></link><description><![CDATA[To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. -King Henry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55835]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you can imagine is real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you can imagine is real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12697]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You came to me like a dream, you held me in reality and will leave me gasping for your loving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3871]]></link><description><![CDATA[You came to me like a dream, you held me in reality and will leave me gasping for your loving breath when you are gone....]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When war is declared, truth is the first casualty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61188]]></link><description><![CDATA[When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Thompson made himself the centerpiece of his stories] to show that a regular person could be in the midst of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33060]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Thompson made himself the centerpiece of his stories] to show that a regular person could be in the midst of the craziness of the time, ... He was our historian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46067]]></link><description><![CDATA[No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/192]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35529]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26250]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was only early the next morning that I found out she had come to the service and left from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was only early the next morning that I found out she had come to the service and left from her reception to go to her father's deathbed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius. [Lat., Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius. [Lat., Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41528]]></link><description><![CDATA[In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he had given away all he had, like a man passing a ball in a game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61202]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness breaks the spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness breaks the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59242]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59242</guid></item></channel></rss>