<?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[A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46946]]></link><description><![CDATA[A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one who remains shut up in his office learns nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8838]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing again, with your dear voice revealing A tone  Of some world far from ours,   Where music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing again, with your dear voice revealing A tone  Of some world far from ours,   Where music and moonlight and feeling    Are one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The technology is in a very early stage in general, so it may in the future provide breakthroughs but in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The technology is in a very early stage in general, so it may in the future provide breakthroughs but in the short-term it is certainly going to take time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bargain is anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3731]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bargain is anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're attractive, quality-of-life places and have a somewhat more diverse economic base. It's close to Chicago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38872]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're attractive, quality-of-life places and have a somewhat more diverse economic base. It's close to Chicago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. [The Friar preached against stealing, and had a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49857]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. [The Friar preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4869]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main goal is to find out what's going on out there in rural Iowa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39920]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main goal is to find out what's going on out there in rural Iowa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2786]]></link><description><![CDATA[What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely the stars are images of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely the stars are images of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vegans need nopricegouging animal abusing PfizerVegans want no domesticbattering accident causingBudweiser*Vegans need no servicesfrom corrupt Impermanente Kaiser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vegans need nopricegouging animal abusing PfizerVegans want no domesticbattering accident causingBudweiser*Vegans need no servicesfrom corrupt Impermanente Kaiser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18059]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just getting back into the football vibe. It's been a little rough. You get out of shape when you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37440]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just getting back into the football vibe. It's been a little rough. You get out of shape when you're out for that long, so we're just getting back into shape; we're having fun now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world as seen through the window of an insane asylum is the same world as seen from the window ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39649]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world as seen through the window of an insane asylum is the same world as seen from the window of a dentist's office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42833]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13456]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can travel faster than sound, yes, but not nearly so fast as rumor! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28072]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can travel faster than sound, yes, but not nearly so fast as rumor!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity -- it's self-liking. Your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity -- it's self-liking. Your face is always on display.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From fibers of pain and hope and trouble And toil and happiness,--one by one,--  Twisted together, or single or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11128]]></link><description><![CDATA[From fibers of pain and hope and trouble And toil and happiness,--one by one,--  Twisted together, or single or double,   The varying thread of our life is spun.    Hope shall cheer though the chain be galling;     Light shall come though the gloom be falling;      Faith will list for the Master calling       Our hearts to his rest,--when the day is done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9371]]></link><description><![CDATA[One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53740]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63333]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65748]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People at the seminars will learn about the tools of estate planning in the other topics. I'll provide a checklist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37669]]></link><description><![CDATA[People at the seminars will learn about the tools of estate planning in the other topics. I'll provide a checklist of what they need to do once they get home to actually make those happen. They need to be able to walk away from this with everything they need to do this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solv.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birth is the beginning of death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birth is the beginning of death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am happy that these next two games we're going to give them a chance to get on the field ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30788]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am happy that these next two games we're going to give them a chance to get on the field and show us what they can do. Our next game is vitally important for our opponent. If our guys can respond well on that game that speaks volumes for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the benefit of data or issuance, the impetus to extend those gains is limited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the benefit of data or issuance, the impetus to extend those gains is limited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She bears a duke's revenues on her back, And in her heart she scorns our poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48209]]></link><description><![CDATA[She bears a duke's revenues on her back, And in her heart she scorns our poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel strongly that Regis has been a great neighbor for a very long time. The idea is great; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31349]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel strongly that Regis has been a great neighbor for a very long time. The idea is great; the town needs more elderly housing. We are in favor of that. It's just the scope of this project we can't accept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated,  And now doth fare ill   On the top of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated,  And now doth fare ill   On the top of the bare hill;    The Ploughboy is whooping--anon--anon!     There's joy in the mountains:      There's life in the fountains;       Small clouds are sailing,        Blue sky prevailing;         The rain is over and gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idle folks have the most labour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idle folks have the most labour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,--  We'll deserve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58122]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,--  We'll deserve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how full of briers is this working-day world! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62143]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how full of briers is this working-day world!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object!  For this the foolish overcareful fathers   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17784]]></link><description><![CDATA[How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object!  For this the foolish overcareful fathers   Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care.    Their bones with industry.     For this they have engrossed and piled up      The cankered heaps of strange-achieved gold;       For this they have been thoughtful to invest        Their sons with arts and martial exercises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus--Charles the First, his Cromwell--and George the Third--("Treason!" shouted the Speaker) may profit by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus--Charles the First, his Cromwell--and George the Third--("Treason!" shouted the Speaker) may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59645</guid></item></channel></rss>