<?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[In spite of our hard work and the launch of [Asheron's Call 2 expansion pack] Legions, AC2 has reached the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37706]]></link><description><![CDATA[In spite of our hard work and the launch of [Asheron's Call 2 expansion pack] Legions, AC2 has reached the point where it no longer makes sense to continue the service. We will be officially closing the Asheron's Call 2 service on 12/30/05. Until then, we plan to run live events, but we will not be adding any content or features.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though it's raining, it has really been a perfect day to run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though it's raining, it has really been a perfect day to run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9658]]></link><description><![CDATA[To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [Lat., Discite quam parvo liceat producere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [Lat., Discite quam parvo liceat producere vitam,  Et quantum natura petat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees,  And shape the whisper of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57853]]></link><description><![CDATA[And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees,  And shape the whisper of the throne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the boss is a way, work becomes a holiday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4757]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the boss is a way, work becomes a holiday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43810]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58066]]></link><description><![CDATA[With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: "Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is high, and everyone has been coming together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is high, and everyone has been coming together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We felt we could still be true to the open-source roots and at the same time go to a business ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40463]]></link><description><![CDATA[We felt we could still be true to the open-source roots and at the same time go to a business model that was proven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65859]]></link><description><![CDATA[I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're doing it for one or two schools, like Wheeling Central because they are so big. I know what their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30207]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're doing it for one or two schools, like Wheeling Central because they are so big. I know what their intent was, and some of them were reasonable and some were not, but I don't think they thought the operations of it through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about consciously creating the second half of our lives, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40829]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about consciously creating the second half of our lives,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was as close to perfect as anyone can be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28423]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was as close to perfect as anyone can be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For angling-rod he took a sturdy oak; For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke;  His hook was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16107]]></link><description><![CDATA[For angling-rod he took a sturdy oak; For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke;  His hook was such as heads the end of pole   To pluck down house ere fire consumes it whole;    This hook was bated with a dragon's tail,--     And then on rock he stood to bob for whale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're sort of the soundtrack to these wonderful, wonderful images, ... The subject is the universe, but we interpret that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31146]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're sort of the soundtrack to these wonderful, wonderful images, ... The subject is the universe, but we interpret that loosely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/173]]></link><description><![CDATA['Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26026]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47572]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power- God, history, fate, nation or humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's not the policy or the way we operate public affairs at NASA. We support and make sure we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33297]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's not the policy or the way we operate public affairs at NASA. We support and make sure we are all about full and open communications.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44164]]></link><description><![CDATA[To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for someone to blame is always successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for someone to blame is always successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8021]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[La ligne, avec sa canne, est un long instrument, Dont le plus mince bout tient un petit reptile,  Et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16116]]></link><description><![CDATA[La ligne, avec sa canne, est un long instrument, Dont le plus mince bout tient un petit reptile,  Et dont l'autre est tenu par un grand imbecile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66405]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is like fire without light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is like fire without light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like one that on a lonesome road  Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like one that on a lonesome road  Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on,  And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend  Doth close behind him tread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61008]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If small businesses want to buy the high-cost option and they can afford it, great. If they don't, why can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29054]]></link><description><![CDATA[If small businesses want to buy the high-cost option and they can afford it, great. If they don't, why can you not offer them lower-cost options?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38411]]></link><description><![CDATA[While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're always disappointed but I wasn't shocked. I felt we were probably a win or two short. That's the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32538]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're always disappointed but I wasn't shocked. I felt we were probably a win or two short. That's the way it ended up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60175]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O' the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9778]]></link><description><![CDATA[O' the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to conquer the city of Troy - all that, and ten years of perseverance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48246</guid></item></channel></rss>