<?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 genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish my deadly foe no worse, Than want of friends, and empty purse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13877]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish my deadly foe no worse, Than want of friends, and empty purse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15769]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my hut this spring, there is nothing -- there is everything! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26634]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my hut this spring, there is nothing -- there is everything!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best fishing in troubled waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Best fishing in troubled waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52869]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28748]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. [Lat., Religio peperit divitias et filia devoravit matrem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. [Lat., Religio peperit divitias et filia devoravit matrem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We experienced a steady increase in 1394-equipped products throughout 2005, and foresee continued expansion this year as developers demand the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34587]]></link><description><![CDATA[We experienced a steady increase in 1394-equipped products throughout 2005, and foresee continued expansion this year as developers demand the proven quality-of-service, high bandwidth, and peer-to-peer features that the 1394 standard delivers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  [God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  [God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship", for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get only by trusting in me. I can not give it you any other way. There is no other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes like dreary is the want of motive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43254]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes like dreary is the want of motive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On top of this, it's a good idea to take up references. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36402]]></link><description><![CDATA[On top of this, it's a good idea to take up references.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! could you view the melody Of every grace,  And music of her face,   You'd drop a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! could you view the melody Of every grace,  And music of her face,   You'd drop a tear,    Seeing more harmony     In her bright eye,      Than now you hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/970]]></link><description><![CDATA[You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.- Kahlil Gibran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4973</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[I should have cut back and gotten into the end zone. I thought I could make it. I should have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should have cut back and gotten into the end zone. I thought I could make it. I should have lifted my knees up a little higher. Maybe I could have gotten in there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The latest chip helps us go after the Web and application tier in the data center, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The latest chip helps us go after the Web and application tier in the data center,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21066]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled "the bisexual defector." Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that's huge progress. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42523]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was simply amazed; in my 20-plus years as a funeral home director, I have never seen workers come out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40410]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was simply amazed; in my 20-plus years as a funeral home director, I have never seen workers come out in force in a display of respect as I had here today. There were state highway department workers at every intersection on the way to the cemetery and about 40 to 50 state trucks on hand. The Illinois Department of Transportation takes care of its own. It was very impressive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place,  Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place,  Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,   Office, and custom, in all line of order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on authenticity:   "Prayer in the Name of Christ", though it is essentially a mystical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on authenticity:   "Prayer in the Name of Christ", though it is essentially a mystical phrase, also contains a surface meaning which is very valuable to those who grasp and apply it. The more Jesus becomes our standard and inspiration in prayer, the more confident we may be of a favorable hearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52646]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1223]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16425]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11122]]></link><description><![CDATA[My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was like, bing, bing, bing. They threw some big punches, and we just didn't respond like we have all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33248]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was like, bing, bing, bing. They threw some big punches, and we just didn't respond like we have all year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And let him be sure to leave other men their turns to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57327]]></link><description><![CDATA[And let him be sure to leave other men their turns to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we had the slowest bus driver in Pennsylvania. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37572]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we had the slowest bus driver in Pennsylvania.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knute Rockne liked bad loser. He said good losers lose too often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knute Rockne liked bad loser. He said good losers lose too often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses?  Nature, oppress'd and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56607]]></link><description><![CDATA[What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses?  Nature, oppress'd and harrass'd out with care,   Sinks down to rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;  An' what he thought 'e ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46641]]></link><description><![CDATA[When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;  An' what he thought 'e might require,   'E went an' took--the same as me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a few problems at the start, but that is usual. This team has never played together before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40201]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a few problems at the start, but that is usual. This team has never played together before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62180]]></link><description><![CDATA[What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With men all is impossible; but with God all things are possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48589]]></link><description><![CDATA[With men all is impossible; but with God all things are possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48589</guid></item></channel></rss>