<?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[Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. There is only one thing, which somebody once put into my head, that I dislike in sleep; it is, that it resembles death; there is very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all boil at different degrees ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19945]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all boil at different degrees]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19439]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29137]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was a whole person. Then they cut the person open, and in him is a little baby shark. And in the baby shark there isn't a person, because it would be too small. But there's a little doll or something, like a Johnny Combat little toy guy---something like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This group really shares the ball on offense and plays well together on defense. It's a wonderful group of kids ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35275]]></link><description><![CDATA[This group really shares the ball on offense and plays well together on defense. It's a wonderful group of kids with great character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51645]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44288]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amiable weakness of human nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amiable weakness of human nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Unknown Friends are the siblings, God never gave us. -Mencius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Unknown Friends are the siblings, God never gave us. -Mencius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27444]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60215]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The earnings) represent real progress, ... The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35755]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The earnings) represent real progress, ... The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and expenses came down. We threw off over $300 million in cash. All of those were in the right direction. So I think we're on our way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52361]]></link><description><![CDATA[You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200  The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. "Religion" means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to focus on three players on defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42262]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to focus on three players on defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was and is (what can there more be said?) On earth the first, in heaven the second maid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5623]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was and is (what can there more be said?) On earth the first, in heaven the second maid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5623</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[Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if we don't win another game, we beat Superman tonight. When they bring him in, everybody knows the game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if we don't win another game, we beat Superman tonight. When they bring him in, everybody knows the game is over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Willie is a veteran player who upgrades the depth of our defensive corps. He plays a solid defensive game and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Willie is a veteran player who upgrades the depth of our defensive corps. He plays a solid defensive game and will be a good fit for our hockey club as we prepare for the 2006 playoffs and a chance to compete for the Stanley Cup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10224]]></link><description><![CDATA["My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46831]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing life's end, having done kindly deeds. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23796]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing life's end, having done kindly deeds. But I have known more than one millionaire who became haunted by the realization that they had led selfish lives. -B. C. Forbes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why was I born with such contemporaries? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why was I born with such contemporaries?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/797]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57326]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History will judge the invasion of Iraq one of the greatest foreign policy misadventures of all time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23034]]></link><description><![CDATA[History will judge the invasion of Iraq one of the greatest foreign policy misadventures of all time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To drink away sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48551]]></link><description><![CDATA[To drink away sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asian governments are making significant progress in the fight against poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Asian governments are making significant progress in the fight against poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plus those guys don't have mascots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plus those guys don't have mascots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thorough preparation makes its own luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thorough preparation makes its own luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53069]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54551]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys when the storm is drawing near, Like the rolling of the ocean in the eventide of fear? 'Tis the people marching on]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58689]]></link><description><![CDATA[In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors should remember that if we do see companies start hitting estimates and not beating them, that wouldn't be such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors should remember that if we do see companies start hitting estimates and not beating them, that wouldn't be such a bad thing. It would mean there's less earnings management going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin,  And to the stack or the barn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8937]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin,  And to the stack or the barn door   Stoutly struts his dames before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15723</guid></item></channel></rss>