<?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[Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goal is to help everyone be involved in the full life of the church, not just Sunday morning services. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goal is to help everyone be involved in the full life of the church, not just Sunday morning services.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment at least ... that long magic moment before we wake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21569]]></link><description><![CDATA[From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The notion of terror to overcome terrorism, violence to overcome violence, is counterproductive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The notion of terror to overcome terrorism, violence to overcome violence, is counterproductive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,  As if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6126]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,  As if Theocritus in Sicily   Had come upon the Figure crucified,    And lost his gods in deep, Christ-given rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many. [Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many. [Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly 60 percent of those teachers eligible for retirement do not do so because of uncertainty about pensions and health ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearly 60 percent of those teachers eligible for retirement do not do so because of uncertainty about pensions and health care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there,  Many a monk and many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there,  Many a monk and many a friar,   Many a knight and many a squire,    With a great many more of lesser degree,--     In sooth a goodly company;      And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee.       Never, I ween,        Was a prouder seen,         Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams,          Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He heard the convent bell, Suddenly in the silence ringing  For the service of noonday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4116]]></link><description><![CDATA[He heard the convent bell, Suddenly in the silence ringing  For the service of noonday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to find out what is exactly happening. We have all heard about this then we have to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35208]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to find out what is exactly happening. We have all heard about this then we have to see if it is confirmed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgivernourselves. For the things we didn't do. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62901]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgivernourselves. For the things we didn't do. The things we should have done. I think forgiving yourself is more important than forgiving anyone else and it's often the hardest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus doux des ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus doux des plaisirs.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows--  The best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows--  The best I had, a princess wrought it me--   And I did never ask it you again;    And with my hand at midnight held your head,     And like the watchful minutes to the hour,      Still and anon cheered up the heavy time,       Saying, 'What lack you?' and 'Where lies your grief?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48957]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small heart hath small desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49077]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small heart hath small desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16420]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66744]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self and begin a new life. They try to realize this desire either by finding a new identity or by blurring and camouflaging their individual distinctness; and both these ends are reached by imitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't even considered it. We are, right now, trying to make sure everyone who lives within the reservation boundaries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37298]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't even considered it. We are, right now, trying to make sure everyone who lives within the reservation boundaries is taken care of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20551]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53615]]></link><description><![CDATA[A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the last of earth! I am content. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24114]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the last of earth! I am content.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A burnt child dreads the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14728]]></link><description><![CDATA[A burnt child dreads the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14839]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is definitely true that having a common foe does give you something to shoot at. I'm just hoping that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34577]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is definitely true that having a common foe does give you something to shoot at. I'm just hoping that we don't fall into a pattern of simply playing catch-up with Microsoft, which is a danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  Our Christian experience must agree with the Bible. We will be taught by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  Our Christian experience must agree with the Bible. We will be taught by the Bible and fed by the Bible. But we do not believe in Christ because He is in the Bible: we believe in the Bible because Christ is in us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27142]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11989]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirty days hath November, April, June, and September,  February hath xxviii alone,   And all the rest have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thirty days hath November, April, June, and September,  February hath xxviii alone,   And all the rest have xxxi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look for in-line fourth-quarter financial results and more upbeat guidance for 2006 than Amgen provided at this time last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41858]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look for in-line fourth-quarter financial results and more upbeat guidance for 2006 than Amgen provided at this time last year for 2005.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I kick myself a little bit because I'm always worried. I'm trying to put my insecurities away in the sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I kick myself a little bit because I'm always worried. I'm trying to put my insecurities away in the sense of just letting things take their course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is above the law, you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is above the law, you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the ink of our sweat we will find it yet, The song that is fit for men! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57218]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the ink of our sweat we will find it yet, The song that is fit for men!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weariness comes from work not done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12425]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weariness comes from work not done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65046]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're basically looking at a 21st-century fence, not a 19th-century fence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37279]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're basically looking at a 21st-century fence, not a 19th-century fence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of losing isn't hard to masters; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of losing isn't hard to masters; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go too far is as bad as to fall short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22739]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go too far is as bad as to fall short.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23594]]></link><description><![CDATA[To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23594</guid></item></channel></rss>