<?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[Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol removes inhibitions - like that scared little mouse who got drunk and shook his whiskers and shouted: "Now bring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol removes inhibitions - like that scared little mouse who got drunk and shook his whiskers and shouted: "Now bring on that damn cat!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/393]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking, The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill,  The lark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking, The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill,  The lark from her light wing the bright dew is shaking--   Kathleen Mavourneen, what, slumbering, still?    Oh hast thou forgotten how soon we must sever?     Oh hast thou forgotten this day we must part?      It may be for years and it may be forever;       Oh why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation\'s braggart lords. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66182]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation\'s braggart lords.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. An houri had rolled a cloud under his head, and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. An houri had rolled a cloud under his head, and he was snoring serenely near the fountain of Salsabil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well for the most part. We had a couple of lapses that ultimately cost us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34109]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well for the most part. We had a couple of lapses that ultimately cost us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Maoists used to attack in remote areas and district headquarters and now they are targeting urban areas as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Maoists used to attack in remote areas and district headquarters and now they are targeting urban areas as they had made it clear that they will focus on disrupting the local polls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy,  Whose trust, ever childlike, no cares could destroy,  Be there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy,  Whose trust, ever childlike, no cares could destroy,  Be there at our waking, and give us, we pray,  Your bliss in our hearts, Lord, at the break of the day.  Lord of all eagerness, Lord of all faith,  Whose strong hands were skilled at the plane and the lathe,  Be there at our labors, and give us, we pray,  Your strength in our hearts, Lord, at the noon of the day.  Lord of all kindliness, Lord of all grace,  Your hands swift to welcome, your arms to embrace,  Be there at our homing, and give us, we pray,  Your love in our hearts, Lord, at the eve of the day.  Lord of all gentleness, Lord of all calm,  Whose voice is contentment, whose presence is balm,  Be there at our sleeping, and give us, we pray,  Your peace in our hearts, Lord, at the end of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52270]]></link><description><![CDATA[We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60092]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overwork: n., a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overwork: n., a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  True progress is not found in breaking away from the old ways, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  True progress is not found in breaking away from the old ways, but in abiding in the teaching of Christ and His Spirit in the Church. There is an apparent contradiction here, for how can we abide, and yet advance? It is a paradox, like much else in scripture; but Christian experience proves it true. Those make the best progress in religion who hold fast by the faith once for all delivered to the saints, and not those who drift away from their moorings, rudderless upon a sea of doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61882]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am optimistic about the economic recovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38006]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am optimistic about the economic recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her  The flowery May, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her  The flowery May, who from her green lap throws   The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose.    Hail, bounteous May, that doth inspire     Mirth, and youth, and warm desire;      Woods and groves are of thy dressing,       Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing,        Thus we salute thee with our early song,         And welcome thee, and wish thee long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning. - Works and Days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dally not with mony or women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dally not with mony or women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17826]]></link><description><![CDATA[People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, It doesn't mean I know you'll never go, Only that I wish you didn't have to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of our singles players played very solid matches today, they played very clean and had very few errors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33363]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of our singles players played very solid matches today, they played very clean and had very few errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mockery is the weapon of those who have no other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mockery is the weapon of those who have no other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39149]]></link><description><![CDATA[From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9979]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65738]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athens--these seven cities contend as to being the birthplace of the illustrious Homer. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athens--these seven cities contend as to being the birthplace of the illustrious Homer. [Lat., Smyrna, Rhodos, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenae,  Hae septem certant de stirpe insignis Homeri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are all changing, and Jo is resisting, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41683]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are all changing, and Jo is resisting,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe;  Pattern in himself to know, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23517]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe;  Pattern in himself to know,   Grace to stand, and virtue go;    More nor less to others paying     Than by self-offenses weighing.      Shame to him whose cruel striking       Kills for faults of his own liking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got an agreement with Delphi that is satisfactory. We've been trying to find a soft landing for these individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35595]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got an agreement with Delphi that is satisfactory. We've been trying to find a soft landing for these individuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12288]]></link><description><![CDATA[All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is not in the warres is not out of danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49367]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is not in the warres is not out of danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25133]]></link><description><![CDATA[But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was Greek to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things:  Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58606]]></link><description><![CDATA["The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things:  Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--   Of cabbages--and kings--    And why the sea is boiling hot--     And whether pigs have wings."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're playing a lot tougher, and we're kind of getting into a little routine. We want to try to attack ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39897]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're playing a lot tougher, and we're kind of getting into a little routine. We want to try to attack the post, we want to be timely with the shooting from the perimeter, and defensively we've picked up things a little bit. But by the same token, our schedule has not weakened a bit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adventure is not outside a man; it is within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adventure is not outside a man; it is within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All (three species) were able to be found in one place, proving that evolution is a fact. Successive records that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30085]]></link><description><![CDATA[All (three species) were able to be found in one place, proving that evolution is a fact. Successive records that we see here prove that the Afar region is the origin of human kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47490]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconsciousness convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19650</guid></item></channel></rss>