<?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[If Unix is so damned useful, why is "no" in /usr/dict/words, but "yes" isn't? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60257]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Unix is so damned useful, why is "no" in /usr/dict/words, but "yes" isn't?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was betrothed that day; I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23819]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was betrothed that day; I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54844]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/233]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He never saw me play ball in high school. You had to rely on relationships or a friend who knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28623]]></link><description><![CDATA[He never saw me play ball in high school. You had to rely on relationships or a friend who knew of a good player in this town or that town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. [Fr., Mais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56717]]></link><description><![CDATA[But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. [Fr., Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan? C'estoit le plus grand soucy qu'eust Villon, le poete parisien.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it might be fun to have twins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it might be fun to have twins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58077]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ends must justify the means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ends must justify the means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22006</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[So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23644]]></link><description><![CDATA[So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trinity College Dublin needed a high performance, scalable, yet affordable solution to accelerate important research and scientific discoveries. We are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trinity College Dublin needed a high performance, scalable, yet affordable solution to accelerate important research and scientific discoveries. We are very pleased that the college selected Voltaire and IBM to meet these requirements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45976]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel for the sponsors (HSBC) because they put up a lot of money. This is the richest first prize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48286]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel for the sponsors (HSBC) because they put up a lot of money. This is the richest first prize in all of golf (one million pounds).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thick skin is a gift from God ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40231]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thick skin is a gift from God]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insist upon yourself. Be original. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insist upon yourself. Be original.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice;  The confidence of reason give;   And in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice;  The confidence of reason give;   And in the light of truth thy    Bondman let me live!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O ye who teach the ingenuous youth of nations-- Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain;  I pray ye flog ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48754]]></link><description><![CDATA[O ye who teach the ingenuous youth of nations-- Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain;  I pray ye flog them upon all occasions,   It mends their morals--never mind the pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Bush has made this declaration so Tennessee can get back on their feet and go on with their lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38111]]></link><description><![CDATA[President Bush has made this declaration so Tennessee can get back on their feet and go on with their lives as quickly as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh--  To join blest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh--  To join blest spirits in celestial lands!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I\'m not hungry enough to eat six. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66856]]></link><description><![CDATA[You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I\'m not hungry enough to eat six.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been under intense pressure to come back to work, but the best my colleagues can do is a backroom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been under intense pressure to come back to work, but the best my colleagues can do is a backroom deal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite,  One flash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25057]]></link><description><![CDATA[And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite,  One flash of it within the Tavern caught   Better than in the temple lost outright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haven't you ever been using an operating system and said, 'Well, that's stupid, why do the menus look like that?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haven't you ever been using an operating system and said, 'Well, that's stupid, why do the menus look like that?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet here's eglantine, Here's ivy!--take them as I used to do  Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet here's eglantine, Here's ivy!--take them as I used to do  Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine.   Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true,    And tell thy soul their roots are left in mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the butsyou use today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the butsyou use today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is properly no history; only biography ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4215]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is properly no history; only biography]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53594]]></link><description><![CDATA[In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and exchange ideas that religious beliefs begin to be eroded. No one changes his beliefs without some instigation, some novel experience, some modification of the customary course of things, and in a closed society people believe what all their fellows obviously believe. Only when they are brought into contact with persons whom they respect holding different views do they begin to look at their inherited beliefs critically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids came out from the beginning and took care of business. That is all they really wanted to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids came out from the beginning and took care of business. That is all they really wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6916]]></link><description><![CDATA[A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His golden locks time hath to silver turned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50821]]></link><description><![CDATA[His golden locks time hath to silver turned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shock. Disbelief. This is a loss to the entire Jewish community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shock. Disbelief. This is a loss to the entire Jewish community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel she needs opposition. She's served the city well, but I think at some point you may need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35754]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel she needs opposition. She's served the city well, but I think at some point you may need to revisit that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64358]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64358</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></channel></rss>