<?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[The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear if forced to flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear if forced to flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you have done it is like a part of yourself that you've put together. I think a lot of the people here feel that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! For me her constant flame appears;  The garland she hath culled, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! For me her constant flame appears;  The garland she hath culled, I wear   On brows bald since my thirty years.    Ye veils that deck my loved one rare,     Fall, for the crowning triumph's nigh.      Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair!       And I, so plain a man am I!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ID theft and security breaches are crimes like any other - they won't completely go away. So we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39199]]></link><description><![CDATA[ID theft and security breaches are crimes like any other - they won't completely go away. So we have to try to reduce the amount of data that's at risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've done a good job taking it one game at a time. My mentality has worn off on the kids. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39369]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've done a good job taking it one game at a time. My mentality has worn off on the kids. If you overlook anybody it will hurt you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world holds two classes of men: intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53692]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world holds two classes of men: intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All evils are equal when they are extreme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11235]]></link><description><![CDATA[All evils are equal when they are extreme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wisewith other men's wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22683]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wisewith other men's wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22028]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the industry would view this as a significant defeat. This allows us to explore, I think, what they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the industry would view this as a significant defeat. This allows us to explore, I think, what they've been able to prevent from being explored in the past. It's very meaningful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The investments we're making, and the way we're executing our growth strategies, continue to pay off. In 1998 we invested ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The investments we're making, and the way we're executing our growth strategies, continue to pay off. In 1998 we invested a record $7 billion in our businesses, and we continue to generate powerful revenue growth from sources such as data, wireless, Internet, enhanced calling features, and digital television.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one;  Turn full upon me thy eye,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14816]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one;  Turn full upon me thy eye,--   Ah, how its wavelets drown one!    A blue eye is a true eye;     Mysterious is a dark one,      Which flashes like a spark-sun!       A black eye is the best one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air?  Choose thou, whatever suits the line:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air?  Choose thou, whatever suits the line:   Call me Sappho, call me Chloris,    Call me Lalage, or Doris,     Only, only, call me thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8996]]></link><description><![CDATA[What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this can happen to Jim, what chance do the rest of us have? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31623]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this can happen to Jim, what chance do the rest of us have?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53464]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played our best game of the year tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31309]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played our best game of the year tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24651]]></link><description><![CDATA[A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So I think that some of the fears that people have posed about what this type of publication directly on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28957]]></link><description><![CDATA[So I think that some of the fears that people have posed about what this type of publication directly on the Internet will mean for the book publishing industry have been vastly overstated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Death! O Change! O Time! Without you, O! the insufferable eyes  Of these poor Might-Have-Beens,   These ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45675]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Death! O Change! O Time! Without you, O! the insufferable eyes  Of these poor Might-Have-Beens,   These fatuous, ineffectual yesterdays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9007]]></link><description><![CDATA[A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Domestic and social violence usually starts off with a few angry words and a few hurt feelings that don't get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Domestic and social violence usually starts off with a few angry words and a few hurt feelings that don't get resolved, then escalates into feelings of betrayal, rage and revenge. Inner feelings of rage soon spill over into all aspects of society. Social stress multiplies daily with every new report of political upheaval, child abuse, drug abuse, workplace violence, children bringing guns to school, homelessness, ethnic wars or some other crisis. The root cause of a lot of these social stresses is the inner violence created by dysfunctional communication between the heart and the mind. As social stress increases, we're faced with a choice: Retreat into fear and isolation, become angry and bitter, try to ignore it all, or take responsibility for our own stress reactions. Bobby Jagdev For peace, we must prepare for war. Slade Whitfield -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was bearish on U.S. equities earlier this year but have now turned positive. Stocks are only getting cheaper and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31964]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was bearish on U.S. equities earlier this year but have now turned positive. Stocks are only getting cheaper and cheaper, and the U.S. economy is strong, as are corporate profits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams won't come looking for you. That's why you have to chase them. Pursue them until they become reality, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams won't come looking for you. That's why you have to chase them. Pursue them until they become reality, then hold on tightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. [Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. [Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25481]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? It seems purposeless. Our question of the why of evil assumes the view that the world has a purpose, and what we want to know is how suffering fits into and advances this purpose. The modern view is that suffering has no purpose because nothing that happens has any purpose: the world is run by causes, not by purposes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55040]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is the pain of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is the pain of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My uncle never met an animal he didn't want to kill.(on Book TV). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/256]]></link><description><![CDATA[My uncle never met an animal he didn't want to kill.(on Book TV).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of popularity holds you in a vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of popularity holds you in a vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known,  Happy field or mossy cavern,   Choicer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known,  Happy field or mossy cavern,   Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A righteous man regardeth the life of this beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48639]]></link><description><![CDATA[A righteous man regardeth the life of this beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48639</guid></item></channel></rss>