<?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 main storm dynamics are here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main storm dynamics are here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are the portals of discovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are the portals of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our market is not characteristic of the nation in so many ways, but one of the more unusual facts is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our market is not characteristic of the nation in so many ways, but one of the more unusual facts is that we are continuing to see increased sales activity, while many others are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was obvious while shooting 'Anchorman' that Steve was stealing many a scene. So being a wily producer, I asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39255]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was obvious while shooting 'Anchorman' that Steve was stealing many a scene. So being a wily producer, I asked him if he had any ideas for movies that he could star in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And let our barks across the pathless flood Hold different courses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56183]]></link><description><![CDATA[And let our barks across the pathless flood Hold different courses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall? [Lat., Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56524]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall? [Lat., Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si coelum ruat?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.  The sudden blush ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.  The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow;   They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,    And flare up bodily, wings and all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The industry keeps saying that this is a West Coast phenomenon, ... I don't think we know it's just the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The industry keeps saying that this is a West Coast phenomenon, ... I don't think we know it's just the West Coast. I think this industry has some rocky roads ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late;  And studying all the summer night, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late;  And studying all the summer night,   Her matchless songs does meditate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river,  For men may come and men may go, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4927]]></link><description><![CDATA[I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river,  For men may come and men may go,   But I go on forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was always on the cards and they can justify it on the grounds that the new president will want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28949]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was always on the cards and they can justify it on the grounds that the new president will want his own people on the ground. But it sends all the wrong signals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through tall cowslips nodding near you, Just to touch you as you pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through tall cowslips nodding near you, Just to touch you as you pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[who will shuffle when he's not going anywhere, scratch when he's not itching and grin when he's not tickled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33478]]></link><description><![CDATA[who will shuffle when he's not going anywhere, scratch when he's not itching and grin when he's not tickled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59029]]></link><description><![CDATA[I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2012]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60080]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a pageant, not a philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19312]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a pageant, not a philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just have to get as ready as I can be for that match. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32184]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just have to get as ready as I can be for that match.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill agreement is better then a good judgement. [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49121]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill agreement is better then a good judgement. [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This means that five days a week, we are sending our school children into environments where there is an abundance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30852]]></link><description><![CDATA[This means that five days a week, we are sending our school children into environments where there is an abundance of high-calorie, low-nutritional-quality, inexpensive food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire.  I cried, "Behold! the barren beach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire.  I cried, "Behold! the barren beach of hell   At ebb of tide."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I 'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I 'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt like we executed our offense pretty well in the first half and did just enough to keep the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt like we executed our offense pretty well in the first half and did just enough to keep the lead comfortable in the second half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're not going to see a (buying and selling) frenzy. For the time being it should ... give investors some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34229]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're not going to see a (buying and selling) frenzy. For the time being it should ... give investors some comfort there is some value out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy and the FilbertsA boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy and the FilbertsA boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher. Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his disappointment. A bystander said to him, Be satisfied with half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand. Do not attempt too much at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26553]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8234]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valour that parlies is neare yeelding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valour that parlies is neare yeelding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature acts without masters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature acts without masters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is the worst performance of the season for me. I couldn't skate clean. I do not understand really what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is the worst performance of the season for me. I couldn't skate clean. I do not understand really what happened to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64029]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19924</guid></item></channel></rss>