<?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 process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of function. The more differentiated and specialized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of function. The more differentiated and specialized the parts, the more elaborate co-ordination is needed to create a well-balanced whole. The ultimate criterion of the value of a functional whole is the degree of its internal harmony or integratedness, whether the "functional whole" is a biological species or a civilization or an individual. A whole is defined by the pattern of relations between its parts, not by the sum of its parts; and a civilization is not defined by the sum of its science, technology, art and social organization, but by the total pattern which they form, and the degree of harmonious integration in that pattern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd He that has none, must make them or be wretched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd He that has none, must make them or be wretched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5612]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played pretty hard. We had a little trouble the first 50 minutes. We didn't really play our game, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32955]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played pretty hard. We had a little trouble the first 50 minutes. We didn't really play our game, but in the end it was a [win] for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;  Ring out the thousand wars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;  Ring out the thousand wars of old,   Ring in the thousand years of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can tell you it's a magnificent sensation when the gap opens up like that and you just burst right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can tell you it's a magnificent sensation when the gap opens up like that and you just burst right through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me who first did kisses suggest? It was a mouth all glowing and blest;  It kissed and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me who first did kisses suggest? It was a mouth all glowing and blest;  It kissed and it thought of nothing beside.   The fair month of May was then in its pride,    The flowers were all from the earth fast springing,     The sun was laughing, the birds were singing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the same time, they broke into our pastures and turned loose 35 or 40 head of horses. We got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38668]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the same time, they broke into our pastures and turned loose 35 or 40 head of horses. We got them all back in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this phrase of the "balance of power" is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3690]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this phrase of the "balance of power" is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None save great men have been the authors of great heresies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57101]]></link><description><![CDATA[None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You reach a point where you don't work for money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64820]]></link><description><![CDATA[You reach a point where you don't work for money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates;  The fumes of it invade the brain,   And make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates;  The fumes of it invade the brain,   And make men giddy, proud, and vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the solution is simple, God is answering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24426]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the solution is simple, God is answering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom adapts itself to expediency ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom adapts itself to expediency]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36886]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between those two we need gradual increases of complexity and achievements to keep the public interest, to keep the funding, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between those two we need gradual increases of complexity and achievements to keep the public interest, to keep the funding, to keep the political support going. We've gone to the Moon, we've stopped doing that; now commercial people are doing it. Who knows? Maybe we will get technology from other sources; something I have written about in my days of writing science fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the mediocre are always at their best! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the mediocre are always at their best!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tortured for the Republic. [Lat., Strangulatus pro republica.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tortured for the Republic. [Lat., Strangulatus pro republica.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64122]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22002</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[Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4328]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field,  Still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field,  Still on their dinner turn--   Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home,    And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the first attempt to get some numbers out there to get a feel for how big this thing is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36028]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the first attempt to get some numbers out there to get a feel for how big this thing is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away. [Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away. [Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't always connect ourselves with our history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40753]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't always connect ourselves with our history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to put it out of your mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28368]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to put it out of your mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing a huge increase in all import bills. Some of them are beginning to feel pressure on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36694]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing a huge increase in all import bills. Some of them are beginning to feel pressure on the external balance of payments. Fiscal strains in India, Indonesia, Bangladesh are particularly huge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our survey this year has definitely found improved profit levels emerging sooner rather than later, and this is very encouraging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our survey this year has definitely found improved profit levels emerging sooner rather than later, and this is very encouraging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11055]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9265]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many diseases may be cured by abstinence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many diseases may be cured by abstinence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3739]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9475]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buying is a profound pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buying is a profound pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17981]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making all future fruits of all the pasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making all future fruits of all the pasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a danger inherent in adopting rules that sound good but have no statistical basis or significance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33126]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a danger inherent in adopting rules that sound good but have no statistical basis or significance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made a decision to bring our troops home a few days early in order to spare the life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35867]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made a decision to bring our troops home a few days early in order to spare the life of Angelo. I do not regret the decision. Every life is important. Angelo's was spared and we rejoice. We're all rewarded for it, particularly his loving family and friends,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57105]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While top and bottom-line results did not meet our expectations for the quarter, we remain optimistic about our prospects for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40469]]></link><description><![CDATA[While top and bottom-line results did not meet our expectations for the quarter, we remain optimistic about our prospects for growth in the future. We remain committed to profitability, excluding non-cash charges, no later than the end of calendar 2001 and we anticipate revenue for fiscal 2001 to be approximately 2.25 times fiscal 2000 revenue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly energy continues to do well, but technology has also attracted increasing amounts of funds, and we're seeing growth stocks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly energy continues to do well, but technology has also attracted increasing amounts of funds, and we're seeing growth stocks start to perform better than they have for some time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34703</guid></item></channel></rss>