<?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[I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43514]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the corporate perspective, open source is a means, not an end, and if you confuse those you're going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34574]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the corporate perspective, open source is a means, not an end, and if you confuse those you're going to have problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come like shadows, so depart! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come like shadows, so depart!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24082]]></link><description><![CDATA[We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48145]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2581]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappiness does make people look stupid ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappiness does make people look stupid]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9640]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across  The gray-green oaks; and catching,   By its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58281]]></link><description><![CDATA[See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across  The gray-green oaks; and catching,   By its soft brown beard, the moss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have.  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have.  And a few Friends, and many Books both true,   Both wise, and both delightful too.    And since Love ne'er will from me flee,     A mistress moderately fair,      And good as Guardian angels are,       Only belov'd and loving me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of paradise. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52251]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to write it that way, ... that would be helpful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32979]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to write it that way, ... that would be helpful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is a dangerous thing; it makes one see that the popular notions of society are wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is a dangerous thing; it makes one see that the popular notions of society are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24198]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always wished for this, but it\'s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always wished for this, but it\'s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52959]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3437]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41075]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ask people not to rush us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34846]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ask people not to rush us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the president does it, that means it is not illegal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47309]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sound of a kiss is much softer than that of a cannon - but it's echo lasts a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23842]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sound of a kiss is much softer than that of a cannon - but it's echo lasts a great deal longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This deal makes sense for both companies. Bank of New York has been expanding in the custodial business and doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36833]]></link><description><![CDATA[This deal makes sense for both companies. Bank of New York has been expanding in the custodial business and doing a fine job. This shift out of distribution is an ideal fit for J.P. Morgan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snug as a bug in a rug. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Snug as a bug in a rug.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday  The apologetic of the New Testament, and of the early centuries generally, was addressed to men who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday  The apologetic of the New Testament, and of the early centuries generally, was addressed to men who had been brought up within one or other of the great pre-Christian religious systems and who had staunchly defended their own inherited traditions against the innovation of the Christian outlook; whereas any apologetic that is to be effective in this country today must be addressed to men who stand within the inheritance of the Christian tradition and know nothing, save by hearsay, of any other, but who have now in varying degrees disengaged themselves from this tradition and whose quarrel with Christianity is therefore undertaken from the point of view either of no religion at all or of some very vague and tenuous residuum of Christian religiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the summer night Has a smile of light  And she sits on a sapphire throne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the summer night Has a smile of light  And she sits on a sapphire throne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35781]]></link><description><![CDATA[I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is organised knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is organised knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. [Lat., Aut ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20916]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. [Lat., Aut potentior te, aut imbecillior laesit: si imbecillior, barce ille; si potentior, tibi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53861]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get caught up in defending him, pick your poison. There are more players on that team than just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36193]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get caught up in defending him, pick your poison. There are more players on that team than just Sean Morris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is a confession of pain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is a confession of pain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap  Of murky buildings: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57182]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap  Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,--   Nature's observatory--whence the dell,    In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell,     May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep      'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap       Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57182</guid></item></channel></rss>