<?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[He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. [Lat., Fit in dominatu servitus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56583]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. [Lat., Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.  There is a crack in everything.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.  There is a crack in everything.   That's how the light gets in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. -Isak Dinesen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64907]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of the smallest situations are the biggest to some people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of the smallest situations are the biggest to some people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in,  When our angels stand in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26927]]></link><description><![CDATA[When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in,  When our angels stand in a waiting hush,   Remember the Marne and Ferdinand Foch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we not all members of the same Body and partakers of the same Spirit and heirs of the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are we not all members of the same Body and partakers of the same Spirit and heirs of the same blessed hope of eternal life? ... Why do we not, as becomes brethren, dwell together in unity, but are so apt to quarrel and break out into heats, to crumble into sects and parties, to divide and separate from one another upon every trifling occasion? Give me leave... in the name of our dear Lord ... to recommend to you this new commandment of his, that ye love one another. Which is almost a new commandment still, and hardly the worse for wearing, so seldom is it put on, and so little hath it been practiced among Christians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apt Alliteration's artful aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apt Alliteration's artful aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hate other people without hating your self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18836]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hate other people without hating your self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59244]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. All the beings in the world. One should create such a determination that `I will lead all of them into nirvana'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some years, we see the boating season just being delayed, and they might be able to make it up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34135]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some years, we see the boating season just being delayed, and they might be able to make it up later in the year. Based on the tone of the last earnings call, I?m not expecting to see a spike for them in the third quarter. The next big question is: What is 2006 going to look like in terms of how the boating season shapes up and how successful will these new initiatives be that the management is waiting on?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8352]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12811]]></link><description><![CDATA[So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  It is clear that he does not pray, who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  We must never speak to simple, excitable people about "the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  We must never speak to simple, excitable people about "the Day" without emphasizing again and again the utter impossibility of prediction. We must try to show them that that impossibility is an essential part of the doctrine. If you do not believe our Lord's words, why do you believe in His return at all? And if you do believe them, must you not put away from you, utterly and forever, any hope of dating that return?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the fans aren't enjoying this points race this year they're not paying attention. This is like a toe-to-toe heavyweight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36094]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the fans aren't enjoying this points race this year they're not paying attention. This is like a toe-to-toe heavyweight fight. Kurt has the best car right now. I can't seem to put any space between us. He's been storming up behind us in the points. I had to win just to hold him off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Scientists investigate that which already is;Engineers create that which has never been.'' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13892]]></link><description><![CDATA["Scientists investigate that which already is;Engineers create that which has never been.'']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That loss forced us to concentrate on the satellites. And from my perspective, the satellites are where the action is. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31982]]></link><description><![CDATA[That loss forced us to concentrate on the satellites. And from my perspective, the satellites are where the action is. That's where the big surprises came.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like her because she smiles at me and means it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like her because she smiles at me and means it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, simpleton, do you mix your verses with mine? What have you to do, foolish man, with writings that convict ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, simpleton, do you mix your verses with mine? What have you to do, foolish man, with writings that convict you of theft? Why do you attempt to associate foxes with lions, and make owls pass for eagles? Though you had one of Ladas's legs, you would not be able, blockhead, to run with the other leg of wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would that I were low laid in my grave: I am not worth this coil that 's made for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would that I were low laid in my grave: I am not worth this coil that 's made for me. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60389]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme il veut l'etre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to predict the future is to invent it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20821]]></link><description><![CDATA[The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining the finite irrational numbers is wholly disimilar to, and I might even say in priciple the same as, my method described above of introducing trasfinite numbers. One can say unconditionally: the transfinite numbers stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers; they are like each other in their innermost being; for the former like the latter are definite delimited forms or modifications of the actual infinite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of their saddles into the dirt--and thereby hangs a tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of their saddles into the dirt--and thereby hangs a tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66615]]></link><description><![CDATA[The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander thanI now am. Just as the sky ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21600]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander thanI now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its presentperfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfectand not deficient because I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and Iam not deficient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15885]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves.  Sense is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves.  Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound;   When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam;    Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine.   - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58530]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine.   - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're pretty much on schedule, ... We are talking to some people right now, but mergers are unpredictable. ... We'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38506]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're pretty much on schedule, ... We are talking to some people right now, but mergers are unpredictable. ... We'd like to see a transaction in the early part of 2006, but whether we will or not, frankly, depends on the sellers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been relying very heavily on my instincts as of late, and my songwriting has come to depend on my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3371]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been relying very heavily on my instincts as of late, and my songwriting has come to depend on my ability to surrender to the inspiration whenever it strikes. When I clear my mind and let the music take over, my hands seem to move on their own, and my voice utters words I haven't premeditated. This is pure instinct. It's like riding a wave. You just take a deep breath, hop on, and hang on as long as you can. That's basically how I songwrite when I'm composing impromptu pieces. It's a lot like channeling. Or free associating. And it's super fun, because anything can happen! It's pure creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10644]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Fell was reposing himself in the hay, A reptile concealed bit his leg as he lay;  But, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46868]]></link><description><![CDATA[While Fell was reposing himself in the hay, A reptile concealed bit his leg as he lay;  But, all venom himself, of the wound he made light,   And got well, while the scorpion died of the bite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42800</guid></item></channel></rss>