<?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 Charcoal-Burner and the FullerA CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Charcoal-Burner and the FullerA CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that they should be far better neighbors and that their housekeeping expenses would be lessened. The Fuller replied, The arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you would immediately blacken again with your charcoal. Moral: Like will draw like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Global Services division goes from strength to strength, providing BT with diversification away from pure telecoms services that remain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Global Services division goes from strength to strength, providing BT with diversification away from pure telecoms services that remain under intense pricing pressure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44240]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good horse should be seldom spurred ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19831]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good horse should be seldom spurred]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19255]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're kind of groping their way forward to understand how they can make the pope as available as possible to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38497]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're kind of groping their way forward to understand how they can make the pope as available as possible to his followers while at the same time protecting his health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a good example of a very good, productive partnership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30104]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a good example of a very good, productive partnership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the things the business people in the rich world wanted, they got in the Uruguay Round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the things the business people in the rich world wanted, they got in the Uruguay Round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist. [Lat., In animo perturbato, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27514]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist. [Lat., In animo perturbato, sicut in corpore, sanitas esse non potest.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf in Sheep's ClothingOnce upon a time a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf in Sheep's ClothingOnce upon a time a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food more easily. Encased in the skin of a sheep, he pastured with the flock deceiving the shepherd by his costume. In the evening he was shut up by the shepherd in the fold; the gate was closed, and the entrance made thoroughly secure. But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly. Harm seek. Harm find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12306]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday I bind my heart, this tide, to the Galilean's side,  To the wounds of Calvary, to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday I bind my heart, this tide, to the Galilean's side,  To the wounds of Calvary, to the Christ who died for me. I bind my soul this day to the brother far away  And the brother near at hand, in this town and in this land. I bind my heart in thrall to God, the Lord of all.-- To God, the poor man's friend, and the Christ whom He did send. I bind myself to peace, to make strife and envy cease.  God, knit Thou sure the cord of my thralldom to my Lord!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas in Trafalgar's bay The saucy Frenchmen lay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61122]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas in Trafalgar's bay The saucy Frenchmen lay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go away and come again each day, But thou shalt go away and ne'er return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go away and come again each day, But thou shalt go away and ne'er return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So study evermore is overshot. While it doth study to have what it would,  It doth forget to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58046]]></link><description><![CDATA[So study evermore is overshot. While it doth study to have what it would,  It doth forget to do the thing it should;   And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,    'Tis won as towns with fire; so won, so lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3278]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune helps the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune helps the brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56157]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications. [The U.K. ruling] is a nice psychological boost, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications. [The U.K. ruling] is a nice psychological boost, but you can't extrapolate the U.S. ruling from this because of the different legal standards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't imagine being a paramedic going to the scene of a wreck. That's what that was, pretty much, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41862]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't imagine being a paramedic going to the scene of a wreck. That's what that was, pretty much, a wreck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The late-breaking action in the Houston criminal trial came moments after Harmon ruled that the jurors do not have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29661]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The late-breaking action in the Houston criminal trial came moments after Harmon ruled that the jurors do not have to unanimously agree on one] corrupt persuader ... acted knowingly and with corrupt intent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would that I were low laid in my grave: I am not worth this coil that 's made for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would that I were low laid in my grave: I am not worth this coil that 's made for me. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30862]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee;  Betwixt the stirrop and the ground,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23529]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee;  Betwixt the stirrop and the ground,   Mercy I askt, mercy I found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust,if thou seest dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21274]]></link><description><![CDATA[That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust,if thou seest dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Retort Courteous;… the Quip Modest;… the Reply Churlish;… the Reproof Valiant;… the Countercheck Quarrelsome;… the Lie with Circumstance;… the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Retort Courteous;… the Quip Modest;… the Reply Churlish;… the Reproof Valiant;… the Countercheck Quarrelsome;… the Lie with Circumstance;… the Lie Direct. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on: Lady, you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55740]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on: Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which is everybody's business is nobody's business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17915]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53552]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come on high and are contained in the sacred writings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach me to feel another's woe,  To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach me to feel another's woe,  To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show,  That mercy show to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's very serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40128]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's very serious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lent is a time of prayer, but not for gloomy faces. Some people choose to give things up, but that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lent is a time of prayer, but not for gloomy faces. Some people choose to give things up, but that's a matter of personal piety. Many parishioners choose to add something, like prayer or extra worship services, or take on a cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the Commission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am become death, shatterer of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am become death, shatterer of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19819]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9355]]></link><description><![CDATA[In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, who in less than three decades killed or maimed nearly a hundred million men, women, and children and brought untold suffering to a large portion of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You lie--under a mistake-- For this is the most civil sort of lie  That can be given to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26115]]></link><description><![CDATA[You lie--under a mistake-- For this is the most civil sort of lie  That can be given to a man's face, I now   Say what I think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mirror of all courtesy. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mirror of all courtesy. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to corral him, keep him in the pocket and make him beat us with his arm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38184]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to corral him, keep him in the pocket and make him beat us with his arm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53339]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could see how this could deal a major crushing blow to the building industry and to the green industry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35014]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could see how this could deal a major crushing blow to the building industry and to the green industry in particular.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16641]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24958]]></link><description><![CDATA[You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24958</guid></item></channel></rss>