<?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[China has declared its commitment to human rights and has raised expectations for the country to match its growing prosperity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41091]]></link><description><![CDATA[China has declared its commitment to human rights and has raised expectations for the country to match its growing prosperity with a firm commitment to advancing human rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thought is often the best.   - Bishop Joseph Butler, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thought is often the best.   - Bishop Joseph Butler,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I actually think regulation is bad. An unregulated market creates competition at its highest levels, which means innovation, which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30934]]></link><description><![CDATA[I actually think regulation is bad. An unregulated market creates competition at its highest levels, which means innovation, which is a good thing for the players,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, Boreas, foe to human kind! Blow, blustering, freezing, piercing wind!  Blow, that thy force I may rehearse,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, Boreas, foe to human kind! Blow, blustering, freezing, piercing wind!  Blow, that thy force I may rehearse,   While all my thoughts congeal to verse!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In misery's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh,  Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46468]]></link><description><![CDATA[In misery's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh,  Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan,   And lonely want retir'd to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. They were not thinking of getting killed when they went where death lurked. They went there to put the fire out, and got killed. Firefighters do not regard themselves as heroes because they do what the business requires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't understand why they were waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40834]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't understand why they were waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. -Walter Lippmann.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing lost or wasted in this life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22772]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing lost or wasted in this life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22874]]></link><description><![CDATA[In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29851]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If 899 matches go out, the900th is enough to set the world aflame.(paraphrased from imperfectmemory of poster)http://www.vahini.org/downloads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22707]]></link><description><![CDATA[If 899 matches go out, the900th is enough to set the world aflame.(paraphrased from imperfectmemory of poster)http://www.vahini.org/downloads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10947]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it doth singe yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it doth singe yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wasn't a hard choice. They look at people that graduate from Rice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wasn't a hard choice. They look at people that graduate from Rice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear not death, for it is your destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear not death, for it is your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a down economy, our survey has found executives always pushing profitability a few years out, and this year is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30626]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a down economy, our survey has found executives always pushing profitability a few years out, and this year is no different. But what the executives are telling us this year is that they have seen the worst and that the industry is poised for a rebound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A miser and a liar bargain quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3727]]></link><description><![CDATA[A miser and a liar bargain quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25511]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain. - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1818.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65663]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head,  The least a death to nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head,  The least a death to nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band  That knits me to thy rugged ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band  That knits me to thy rugged strand!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53176]]></link><description><![CDATA[RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63541]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9618]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. [Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. [Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Lord of all pots and pans and things, since I've no time to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Lord of all pots and pans and things, since I've no time to be A saint by doing lovely things, or watching late with Thee, Or dreaming in the dawn-light, or storming Heaven's gates, Make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates. Although I must have Martha's hands, I have a Mary mind, And when I black the boots and shoes, Thy sandals, Lord, I find. I think of how they trod the earth, what time I scrub the floor: Accept this meditation, Lord, I haven't time for more. Warm all the kitchen with Thy love, and light it with Thy peace; Forgive me all my worrying, and make my grumbling cease. Thou who didst love to give men food, in room or by the sea, Accept this service that I do -- I do it unto Thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1899]]></link><description><![CDATA[For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things come round to him who will but wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45725]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things come round to him who will but wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9415]]></link><description><![CDATA[All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's to short for chess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's to short for chess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089   I whould be very sorry that any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089   I whould be very sorry that any man living should outgo me in desires that all who fear God throughout the world, especially in these nations, were of one way as well as of one heart. I know I desire it sincerely; but I do verily believe that when God shall accomplish it, it will be the effect of love, and not the cause of love. It will proceed from love, before it brings forth love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55406]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least when you are dead you will know what silence truly sounds like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11420]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least when you are dead you will know what silence truly sounds like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11420</guid></item></channel></rss>