<?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[While we are postponing, life speeds by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65578]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we are postponing, life speeds by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who worse than a physician Would this report become? But I consider  By med'cine life may be prolonged, yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who worse than a physician Would this report become? But I consider  By med'cine life may be prolonged, yet death   Will seize the doctor too. How ended she?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen everyone on our staff shed some tears. We loved Ames and loved the people here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen everyone on our staff shed some tears. We loved Ames and loved the people here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospital rooms seemt to have vastly more ceiling than any rooms people live in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospital rooms seemt to have vastly more ceiling than any rooms people live in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is love made visible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is love made visible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain. [Lat., Beatus ille qui procul negotiis,  Ut prisca gens mortalium,   Paterna rura bobus exercet suis,    Solutus omni faenore.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is proof that people are gullible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is proof that people are gullible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In that day's feats, When he might act the woman in the scene,  He prov'd best man i' th' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57948]]></link><description><![CDATA[In that day's feats, When he might act the woman in the scene,  He prov'd best man i' th' field, and for his meed   Was brow-bound with the oak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226  Be not afraid that thou art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226  Be not afraid that thou art tempted, for the more thou art assailed by temptations, the greater friend and servant of God do I hold thee, and the greater love do I bear thee. Verily, I say to thee, let no man deem himself the perfect friend of God until he have passed through many temptations and tribulations... I am ready to endure patiently all things that my Lord would do with me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27095]]></link><description><![CDATA[The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense among men of fortune is rare. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sunsus communis in illa  Fortuna.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense among men of fortune is rare. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sunsus communis in illa  Fortuna.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forever is a long, long time and time has a way of changing things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forever is a long, long time and time has a way of changing things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.   These laid the world away: poured out the red    Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be     Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene      That men call age, and those who would have been       Their sons, they gave their immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We competed better in the second half, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30662]]></link><description><![CDATA[We competed better in the second half,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17128]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26629]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58108]]></link><description><![CDATA[To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many northerners just arriving here have not even unpacked choosing to turn around and head north by northeast back toward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many northerners just arriving here have not even unpacked choosing to turn around and head north by northeast back toward Jacksonville, into Georgia, etc.,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They either hit it hard, or they didn't hit it hard and it still found a hole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39981]]></link><description><![CDATA[They either hit it hard, or they didn't hit it hard and it still found a hole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lead, follow, or get out of the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lead, follow, or get out of the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8472]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to make sure the public and the university start to voice their opposition to intelligent design. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36396]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to make sure the public and the university start to voice their opposition to intelligent design.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manie things are lost for want of asking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manie things are lost for want of asking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's just a ball hog. He probably could be our best player on offense, but we need him on defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33451]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's just a ball hog. He probably could be our best player on offense, but we need him on defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're throwing harder and harder at younger ages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37039]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're throwing harder and harder at younger ages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principles that they are laboring to dethrone: but if they argue without reason (which, in order to be consistent with themselves they must do), they are out of reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Despite the lopsided primary results, Archer cautioned his supporters not to take the general election for granted.] We've come too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33471]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Despite the lopsided primary results, Archer cautioned his supporters not to take the general election for granted.] We've come too far, built too many bridges, taken too many steps to be turned around, ... Something good is happening here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16769]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to get that (championship). It feels good. The first half I couldn't miss a shot. When you make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30531]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to get that (championship). It feels good. The first half I couldn't miss a shot. When you make them, you keep taking them. It boosted our confidence for the second half of the game. When it feels good, I keep shooting if I am open. If I am not open, I look for my teammates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are entirely satisfied that Stephen's parachute was deliberately tampered with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32060]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are entirely satisfied that Stephen's parachute was deliberately tampered with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But now we have bought the film back and it will be shown in Paris in the original version for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32687]]></link><description><![CDATA[But now we have bought the film back and it will be shown in Paris in the original version for the first time in the next couple of months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. [Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. [Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave.  A better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24831]]></link><description><![CDATA[And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave.  A better buckler I can soon regain,   But who can get another life again?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good is the mora that makes all sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good is the mora that makes all sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be,  He comes from Appomattox   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2408]]></link><description><![CDATA[When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be,  He comes from Appomattox   And its famous apple tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2408</guid></item></channel></rss>