<?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[With stores being built all around you reducing your sales and reducing your profit, you've got very little chance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33637]]></link><description><![CDATA[With stores being built all around you reducing your sales and reducing your profit, you've got very little chance of working for 15 or 20 years and walking away with anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11519]]></link><description><![CDATA[What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60896]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fast closed with double grills And triple gates--the cell  To wicked souls is hell;   But to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fast closed with double grills And triple gates--the cell  To wicked souls is hell;   But to a mind that's innocent    'Tis only iron, wood and stone.     [Fr., Doubles grilles a gros cloux,      Triples portes, forts verroux,       Aux ames vraiment mechantes        Vous representez l'enfer;         Mais aux ames innocentes          Vous n'etes que du bois, des pierres, du fer.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier. Many ideas- probably most- will have to be discarded somewhere in the process of producing authenticated knowledge. Authentication is as important as the raw information itself, and the manner and speed of the authentication process can be crucial...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are safe in their number and their close array. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50519]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are safe in their number and their close array.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  The scandal of the Bible does not lie so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  The scandal of the Bible does not lie so much in its claim to record the Word of God, as in its insistence that the Word of God is to be heard in a particular historical happening, in a particular locality -- and only there. To put it in a provocative manner: the Bible is theology. It is historical theology. It can reveal its meaning only to those who regard it as the Word of God, and are able to preserve a strict confidence in the universal significance of particular historical occasions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all labour there is profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48646]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all labour there is profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22631]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2944]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From what far, heavenly height of hope Didst thou descend to light our way,  Cleaving with flash of snowy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60581]]></link><description><![CDATA[From what far, heavenly height of hope Didst thou descend to light our way,  Cleaving with flash of snowy robe   Time's dusky veil of twilight gray?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45979]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48434]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,  Lest I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,  Lest I should fear and fall, and miss Thee so   Who art not missed by any that entreat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish and visitors stink after three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish and visitors stink after three days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46405]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MUFFLED CADENCEThe sound of shot.The roar of gun.Thy will be doneblares the drum.The sudden shock.The news farflung.Thy will be donebeats ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11281]]></link><description><![CDATA[MUFFLED CADENCEThe sound of shot.The roar of gun.Thy will be doneblares the drum.The sudden shock.The news farflung.Thy will be donebeats the drum.The hour of grief.The darkened sun.Thy will be donerolls the drum.The sound of shot.The grave begun.Thy will be donemourns the drum.**by N Marshall Bertsch(N Marshall Bertsch is a Republican who was profoundlygriefstricken by the assassination of John F Kennedy).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4972]]></link><description><![CDATA[One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walked over, and you could feel the floor was lower than it should be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30508]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walked over, and you could feel the floor was lower than it should be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to treat people as if they have nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28638]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to treat people as if they have nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We miss him as a teammate. But we could have won these games (Notre Dame and Wisconsin) with or without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37399]]></link><description><![CDATA[We miss him as a teammate. But we could have won these games (Notre Dame and Wisconsin) with or without him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hans Grovendraad, an honest clown, By cobbling in his native town,  Had earned a living ever.   His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hans Grovendraad, an honest clown, By cobbling in his native town,  Had earned a living ever.   His work was strong and clean and fine,    And none who served at Crispin's shrine     Was at his trade more clever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52760]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content is more than a kingdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content is more than a kingdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/241]]></link><description><![CDATA[More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bottom line is this -- for how long can the military remain restrained? That we are just around the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bottom line is this -- for how long can the military remain restrained? That we are just around the corner from a major confrontation is not in doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no need to hide the reality from the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34832]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no need to hide the reality from the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've found that sales of nominated DVDs do significantly better if they are released prior to the Oscar ceremony compared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31642]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've found that sales of nominated DVDs do significantly better if they are released prior to the Oscar ceremony compared to after because of all the media. Later, it's more about the ceremony itself and not the films.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our message is, no matter what side of the issue your are on, get out there and vote. We want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our message is, no matter what side of the issue your are on, get out there and vote. We want a clear message. Absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I struggle with keeping a paycheck. I work and then I don't get to bring much home. I always tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36533]]></link><description><![CDATA[I struggle with keeping a paycheck. I work and then I don't get to bring much home. I always tell people it's a good thing I don't have kids yet, or that's where it would all go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn  When Christ for all shall risen be,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13145]]></link><description><![CDATA[O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn  When Christ for all shall risen be,   And in all hearts new-born!    That Pentecost when utterance clear     To all men shall be given,      When all shall say My Brother here,       And hear My Son in heaven!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Endangered Species Act has been a dismal failure, and in 25 years the act has yet to bring a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Endangered Species Act has been a dismal failure, and in 25 years the act has yet to bring a single species off the list into recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.  Let it go, for it was imperfect, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.  Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own this shit. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and as soon as they make a heated hockey rink we'll take that shit too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UNIX is basically simple and powerful Operating System, but you have to be a different human to understand the simplicity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30135]]></link><description><![CDATA[UNIX is basically simple and powerful Operating System, but you have to be a different human to understand the simplicity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America has furnished to the world the character of Washington! And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61258]]></link><description><![CDATA[America has furnished to the world the character of Washington! And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still fighting for home-field advantage in the first round of against Dallas. Even if we could catch first place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still fighting for home-field advantage in the first round of against Dallas. Even if we could catch first place we've still got to wrap up second, so it doesn't make much of a difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd ask for specific things and he'd basically try to fool you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42546]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd ask for specific things and he'd basically try to fool you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42546</guid></item></channel></rss>