<?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[Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food  Whose scent hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food  Whose scent hath lur'd them o'er the summer flood;   And those that under Araby's soft sun    Build their high nests of budding cinnamon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realized that I was very attracted to her, and there was no point for my delaying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31175]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realized that I was very attracted to her, and there was no point for my delaying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That's just many people's opinions on what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30695]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That's just many people's opinions on what they see. A lot of people project stuff on you, but that's okay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25462]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22535]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me-I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me-I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give loosers leave to talke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give loosers leave to talke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wood came out here and beat us. You have to give that guy credit. He really competed and then they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wood came out here and beat us. You have to give that guy credit. He really competed and then they had that one big inning. We are still playing well right now; we should be happy to be 9-2. We beat these guys two out of three and now we need to look ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56150]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five bodies have been recovered. Another person was rescued but subsequently died in the hospital. And five more bodies have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Five bodies have been recovered. Another person was rescued but subsequently died in the hospital. And five more bodies have been seen but not yet recovered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great art picks up where nature ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great art picks up where nature ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The role of research has always been to do the groundbreaking work and, as part of IBM, to transfer the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The role of research has always been to do the groundbreaking work and, as part of IBM, to transfer the work to products. I see my career as standing on a wall and seeing both ways. One way is seeing new possibilities and the other is building new products.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But my big thing was always the blues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41181]]></link><description><![CDATA[But my big thing was always the blues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64494]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" third gate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10268]]></link><description><![CDATA["Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" third gate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How time files when you's doin' all the talking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64554]]></link><description><![CDATA[How time files when you's doin' all the talking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year, the offense, we weren't able to put up that many points. This year we have weapons like Derrick ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year, the offense, we weren't able to put up that many points. This year we have weapons like Derrick Williams, Justin King, Michael Robinson at quarterback. I'm anxious to see how that turns out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's still low interest rates, and we're a good buy here in Houston. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40995]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's still low interest rates, and we're a good buy here in Houston.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like St. George, always in his saddle, never on his way.   - Clement Walker, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like St. George, always in his saddle, never on his way.   - Clement Walker,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? -Dr. Robert Schuller. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22795]]></link><description><![CDATA[What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? -Dr. Robert Schuller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To minimize some of the challenges we try to standardize the process with our pre-departure orientation, binders full of information ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33275]]></link><description><![CDATA[To minimize some of the challenges we try to standardize the process with our pre-departure orientation, binders full of information on housing, registration, financial aid and other Northeastern logistics and contact details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54973]]></link><description><![CDATA[For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51368]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misery is almost always the result of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misery is almost always the result of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule goes that all prisoners can get remission as long as they have displayed good behavior, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36229]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule goes that all prisoners can get remission as long as they have displayed good behavior,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With 9/11, it brought more to the public's attention there could be a call that firefighters might not come back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29273]]></link><description><![CDATA[With 9/11, it brought more to the public's attention there could be a call that firefighters might not come back from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, what pleasure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, what pleasure, what heavenly pleasure!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question "Have we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question "Have we anything to eat?" will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In men, we various ruling passions find; In women two almost divide the kind;  Those only fix'd, they first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45610]]></link><description><![CDATA[In men, we various ruling passions find; In women two almost divide the kind;  Those only fix'd, they first or last obey.   The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We figured it's about time we tried to put on a really good show. It's hard to do that when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32468]]></link><description><![CDATA[We figured it's about time we tried to put on a really good show. It's hard to do that when you're going out drinking every night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To die will be an awfully big adventure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/663]]></link><description><![CDATA[To die will be an awfully big adventure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51271]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22592]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Was Andy Warhol a bisexual? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Was Andy Warhol a bisexual?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My windows open to the autumn night, In vain I watched for sleep to visit me, How should sleep dull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7969]]></link><description><![CDATA[My windows open to the autumn night, In vain I watched for sleep to visit me, How should sleep dull mine ears, and dim my sight, Who saw the stars, and listened to the sea? Ah, how the City of our God is fair! If, without sea, and starless though it be, For joy of the majestic beauty there, Men shall not miss the stars, nor mourn the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14427]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22857]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I count only the hours that are serene. [Lat., Horas non numero nisi serenas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58316]]></link><description><![CDATA[I count only the hours that are serene. [Lat., Horas non numero nisi serenas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58316</guid></item></channel></rss>