<?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[What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62868]]></link><description><![CDATA[What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5153]]></link><description><![CDATA[And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grant to us, O Lord, to know that which is worth knowing, to love that which is worth loving, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grant to us, O Lord, to know that which is worth knowing, to love that which is worth loving, to praise that which pleaseth Thee most, to esteem that which is most precious unto Thee, and to dislike whatsoever is evil in Thins eyes. Grant us with true judgment to distinguish things that differ, and above all to search out and do what is well pleasing unto Thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm excited to be part of this generation. Good for Candace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29070]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm excited to be part of this generation. Good for Candace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61171]]></link><description><![CDATA[I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61967]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41409]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is True Evil in this World, it Lies in the Heart of Mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26240]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is True Evil in this World, it Lies in the Heart of Mankind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27655]]></link><description><![CDATA[The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap and they know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20008]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I agree with that. I think you will see us recasting some of our thinking to look at longer term ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I agree with that. I think you will see us recasting some of our thinking to look at longer term things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the town of New Haven, The home of the truth and the light,  Where God speaks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the town of New Haven, The home of the truth and the light,  Where God speaks to Jones,   In the very same tones,    That he uses with Hadley and Dwight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I threw him back. Then I held him on his back for a minute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40320]]></link><description><![CDATA[I threw him back. Then I held him on his back for a minute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a leap of faith. The agreement is under 10 pages long and we could have signed 100 pages, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41940]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a leap of faith. The agreement is under 10 pages long and we could have signed 100 pages, but what counts is not words but deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time rolls his ceaseless course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time rolls his ceaseless course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51118</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[A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12326]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18315]]></link><description><![CDATA[My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thurston has some great shooters, but our defense just got in their face and shut them down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thurston has some great shooters, but our defense just got in their face and shut them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28040]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27266]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56627]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's a fabulous golf course. It's a great golf course to play match play on, and it's so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36410]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's a fabulous golf course. It's a great golf course to play match play on, and it's so easy for the fans to walk around and see other holes. It's a great venue for this event.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4667]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   O God, Who hast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   O God, Who hast ordained that whatever is to be desired, should be sought by labor, and Who, by Thy blessing, bringest honest labor to good effect; look with mercy upon my studies and endeavors. Grant me, O Lord, to design only what is lawful and right, and afford me calmness of mind, and steadiness of purpose, that I may so do Thy will in this short life, as to obtain happiness in the world to come, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53076]]></link><description><![CDATA[What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel.  To lower good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel.  To lower good, and beauties less divine,   Sometimes my erroneous needle does incline;    But yet (so strong the sympathy)     It turns, and points again to Thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17926]]></link><description><![CDATA[None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55765]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. [Lat., Nam improbus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15480]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. [Lat., Nam improbus est homo qui beneficium scit sumere et reddere nescit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55982]]></link><description><![CDATA[What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling lies does not work in advertising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling lies does not work in advertising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe not today, not tomorrow but in five years I can see the emergence of a significant Chinese operator. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe not today, not tomorrow but in five years I can see the emergence of a significant Chinese operator. I believe China has more potent competitive potential than Oracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21031]]></link><description><![CDATA[No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an age of increasingly mobile labor and capital, companies are more sensitive to tax burdens than ever, ... Rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31703]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an age of increasingly mobile labor and capital, companies are more sensitive to tax burdens than ever, ... Rather than chasing away employers with overly aggressive corporate tax laws, states should move toward more stable and less economically harmful revenue sources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31703</guid></item></channel></rss>