<?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[We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26818]]></link><description><![CDATA[We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet:  One little hour! and then, away they speed   On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam,    To meet no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very eager to get started. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40236]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very eager to get started.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To think is to practice brain chemistry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22453]]></link><description><![CDATA[To think is to practice brain chemistry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4276]]></link><description><![CDATA[My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.  The French ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5020]]></link><description><![CDATA[In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.  The French are with equal advantage content--   So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, it is good to be "alone".... but that doesn't make us lonely. It is not a matter of being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, it is good to be "alone".... but that doesn't make us lonely. It is not a matter of being present "with" someone, it is a matter of being present " to" someone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor souls are apt to think that all those whom they read of or hear of to be gone to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor souls are apt to think that all those whom they read of or hear of to be gone to heaven, went thither because they were so good and so holy... Yet not one of them, not any man that is now in heaven (Jesus Christ alone excepted), did ever come thither any other way but by forgiveness of sins. And that will also bring us higher, though we come short of many of them in holiness and grace...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has his besetting sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has his besetting sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an achievement of all Iraqis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34843]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an achievement of all Iraqis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeeres know more then bookes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeeres know more then bookes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25130]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the water is below the pickup tube, then it picks up the phase-separated layer of ethanol, water and gasoline, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33798]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the water is below the pickup tube, then it picks up the phase-separated layer of ethanol, water and gasoline, and the engine will run very poorly, if at all, on that mixture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. [Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51654]]></link><description><![CDATA[The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. [Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16720]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40642]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other than that, there isn't much movement in the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other than that, there isn't much movement in the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62359]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the voice of strange command Calling you still, as friend calls friend,  With love that cannot brook ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43303]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the voice of strange command Calling you still, as friend calls friend,  With love that cannot brook delay,   To rise and follow the ways that wend    Over the hills and far away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52296]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tetchy and wayward. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tetchy and wayward. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are like Slinkies - not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are like Slinkies - not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a good effort by everyone. We're not the best team in the league, obviously, but we hung pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30667]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a good effort by everyone. We're not the best team in the league, obviously, but we hung pretty good. They just hung longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been given some information that confirms the presence of Syrian intelligence agents still operating inside Lebanon. This includes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42610]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been given some information that confirms the presence of Syrian intelligence agents still operating inside Lebanon. This includes the infiltration by Syria of the Lebanese security forces, some of whom are acting for Syria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've heard they've had signs up about Cuero for the last three weeks. We're excited about playing this game but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38308]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've heard they've had signs up about Cuero for the last three weeks. We're excited about playing this game but not to the point where we do not know what we're doing. We just have to go into the game with intensity and remain focused on our goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led!  Art thou that huntress of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led!  Art thou that huntress of the silver bow   Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread    Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below,     Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow,      Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the quality of our inner lives I do not mean something characterized by ferocious intensity and strain. I mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8388]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the quality of our inner lives I do not mean something characterized by ferocious intensity and strain. I mean rather such a humble and genial devotedness as we find in the most loving of the saints. I mean the quality which makes contagious Christians, makes people catch the love of God from you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54829]]></link><description><![CDATA[If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47799]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54132]]></link><description><![CDATA[A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29492]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18687]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64938]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest exceeding poor man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55574]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest exceeding poor man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Owner Red McCombs has a track record for dumping teams -- he owned both the NBA's Spurs and Nuggets at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30865]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Owner Red McCombs has a track record for dumping teams -- he owned both the NBA's Spurs and Nuggets at various times -- and his stadium situation just isn't going to get resolved in the Twin Cities. Even some of his fellow owners have him No. 1 on the relocation list.] I think Red might sell, ... He's been known to sell before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacred to the memory of printing, the art preservative of all arts. This was first invented about the year 1440. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacred to the memory of printing, the art preservative of all arts. This was first invented about the year 1440. [Lat., Memoriae sacrum  Typographia   Ars artium omnium    Conservatrix     Hic primum inventa      Circa annum mccccxl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...ideas have a tendency to live lives of their own, and having become a part of tradition, they are very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52062]]></link><description><![CDATA[...ideas have a tendency to live lives of their own, and having become a part of tradition, they are very difficult to root out. When summarized in a few neat words or phrases, these gems of wisdom become substitutes for thought, and gradually take on much of the status of revealed truth. Occasionally, some iconoclast sees fit to challenge one of them, and a brief flurry ensues, after which things go on about as before. It is easy to think of plenty of ideas that are passing, if they have not already passed, beyond the stage of effective discussion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22410]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharon came back very strong. Their first goal was a bit of a wake-up call that we were not finished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sharon came back very strong. Their first goal was a bit of a wake-up call that we were not finished yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39455</guid></item></channel></rss>