<?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[Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first,  Leaving the bad still strong, though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first,  Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime,   To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd    Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more established you are in society, the more pageantry there tends to be at the weddings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more established you are in society, the more pageantry there tends to be at the weddings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;  Still born to improve in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3181]]></link><description><![CDATA[His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;  Still born to improve in every part,   His pencil out faces, his manners are heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19674]]></link><description><![CDATA[The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you will give me a copy of the letter, I will have the foreign minister prepare a reply. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29711]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you will give me a copy of the letter, I will have the foreign minister prepare a reply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fellow is either a madman or a poet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fellow is either a madman or a poet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a bad day. Horrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39980]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a bad day. Horrible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the Kennedys, the genes are in magnificent alignment, but the stars are demonstrably crossed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19539]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the Kennedys, the genes are in magnificent alignment, but the stars are demonstrably crossed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who assists the wicked will in time rue it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50837]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51338]]></link><description><![CDATA[O let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36814]]></link><description><![CDATA[With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow, didst thou say? Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow!  Go to--I will not hear it. To-morrow!   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59447]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow, didst thou say? Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow!  Go to--I will not hear it. To-morrow!   'Tis a sharper--who stakes his penury    Against thy plenty--takes thy ready cash,     And pays thee naught but wishes, hopes, and promises,      The currency of idiots--injurious bankrupt,       That gulls the easy creditor!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a lot of homework, and I have some I need to do while I'm doing the play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a lot of homework, and I have some I need to do while I'm doing the play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what we'd do if they go out of business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what we'd do if they go out of business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As regards rap music, I believe that the "c" is silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20138]]></link><description><![CDATA[As regards rap music, I believe that the "c" is silent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1690]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started up the company with a goal of building a real company, unlike so many Internet Bubble startups that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34571]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started up the company with a goal of building a real company, unlike so many Internet Bubble startups that seemed to take the attitude of "let's get mind share, and we'll figure out a way to make money later."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.  Pride still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48199]]></link><description><![CDATA[In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.  Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,   Men would be angels, angels would be gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach Bruce Weber told me in a meeting that all I have to do is play pretty well. The rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach Bruce Weber told me in a meeting that all I have to do is play pretty well. The rest of the guys are doing well now. It takes a lot of pressure off Dee and especially myself. Luther and Deron and all the assists and rebounds and all the points that were lost, somebody has to make them up. In reality, you can't do all that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The De Beers brand will be at the heart of our growing jewelry activities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30094]]></link><description><![CDATA[The De Beers brand will be at the heart of our growing jewelry activities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisest of the wise may err. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisest of the wise may err.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51947]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16682]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever limits us, we call Fate ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever limits us, we call Fate]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57047]]></link><description><![CDATA[For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate...before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts...but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And still the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting  On the pallid bust of Pallas  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52982]]></link><description><![CDATA[And still the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting  On the pallid bust of Pallas   Just above my chamber door;    And his eyes have all the seeming     Of a demon's that is dreaming,      And the lamplight o'er him streaming       Throws his shadow on the floor,        And my soul from out that shadow,         That lies floating on the floor,          Shall be lifted--nevermore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad artists always admire each others work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad artists always admire each others work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew the way they (Cougars) played, they were going to let us back in the game. We just kept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew the way they (Cougars) played, they were going to let us back in the game. We just kept battling. We never lost our confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the right thing to do. It's not the right thing to risk to try to get in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the right thing to do. It's not the right thing to risk to try to get in this country through these very dangerous areas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow;  Sweet voices mysteriously wailing   Pierce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58451]]></link><description><![CDATA[And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow;  Sweet voices mysteriously wailing   Pierce through me as onward they go.    They sail along, and a ringing     Sweet melody rises on high;      And when the swans begin singing,       They presently must die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long jesting was never good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long jesting was never good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that makes a good warre makes a good peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that makes a good warre makes a good peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66588]]></link><description><![CDATA[God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playingyour proper role. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playingyour proper role.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the tournament we've gotten better defensively ... in our first two playoff games, our defense basically won it for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41687]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the tournament we've gotten better defensively ... in our first two playoff games, our defense basically won it for us. All three games have been down to the wire and we handled adversity well in all three games. The kids have a lot of heart and they're really competitive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41580]]></link><description><![CDATA[She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8694]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8694</guid></item></channel></rss>