<?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[A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47340]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I did as good as I could. I'm a senior, so I'm happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42680]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I did as good as I could. I'm a senior, so I'm happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  This Christian claim [of universal validity] is naturally offensive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  This Christian claim [of universal validity] is naturally offensive to the adherents of every other religious system. It is almost as offensive to modern man, brought up in the atmosphere of relativism, in which tolerance is regarded almost as the highest of the virtues. But we must not suppose that this claim to universal validity is something that can quietly be removed from the Gospel without changing it into something entirely different from what it is... Jesus' life, his method, and his message do not make sense, unless they are interpreted in the light of his own conviction that he was in fact the final and decisive word of God to men... For the human sickness there is one specific remedy, and this is it. There is no other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves; and it will go near to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves; and it will go near to be thought so shortly. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight;  Farewell awhile to him and thee,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight;  Farewell awhile to him and thee,   My native land--Good Night!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the cups, And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,  The trumpet to the cannoneer without,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the cups, And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,  The trumpet to the cannoneer without,   The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to earth,    'Now the king drinks to Hamlet.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unlived life is not worth examining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unlived life is not worth examining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll probably trend a little bit lower [in the next couple of weeks]. A lot of the gains have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28345]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll probably trend a little bit lower [in the next couple of weeks]. A lot of the gains have been on positive comments made by companies like Dell and IBM, but I think a lot of this reflects market-share shifts rather than a recovery in the overall market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say;  Stops every fool that passes by,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say;  Stops every fool that passes by,   And frights the school-boy from his play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22496]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52046]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60159]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48590]]></link><description><![CDATA[They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. -- Orville Wright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15205]]></link><description><![CDATA[No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. -- Orville Wright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics than any other single misconception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics than any other single misconception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, isas one who plows but does not sow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, isas one who plows but does not sow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, "I swallowed it. So sue me.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was the right time for this merger. This combination is good for our employees, our customers and our stockholders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34077]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was the right time for this merger. This combination is good for our employees, our customers and our stockholders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came in wanting to focus on some of their guys but we couldn't recover from that first goal. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30828]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came in wanting to focus on some of their guys but we couldn't recover from that first goal. They have a couple of guys that that really flow that team. After they got that first goal, we kind of hit the panic button.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was like a battleground, helicopters, fire engines, my car door was crushed like an accordion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29431]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was like a battleground, helicopters, fire engines, my car door was crushed like an accordion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indecision is the graveyard of good intentions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indecision is the graveyard of good intentions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This material is relevant to debates we as Americans are having about the war in Iraq and intelligence reform, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42188]]></link><description><![CDATA[This material is relevant to debates we as Americans are having about the war in Iraq and intelligence reform, ... To keep it classified simply because it might embarrass the agency is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness is a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness is a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60931]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. -John Steinbeck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29981]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3534]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1853]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; butknowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; butknowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in spaceand indefinite in duration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sentinel angel sitting high in glory Heard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory:  "Have mercy, mighty angel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27338]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sentinel angel sitting high in glory Heard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory:  "Have mercy, mighty angel, hear my story!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a lot of interest in resources stocks and the sector looks set for a good move forward. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a lot of interest in resources stocks and the sector looks set for a good move forward. There are all the usual stories about overseas predators targeting Australian miners, which look cheap on a world-wide comparison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well done is better than well said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well done is better than well said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is praised by some, blamed by others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50245]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is praised by some, blamed by others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'llbe halfway there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'llbe halfway there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the step-mother of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the step-mother of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16936]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't think it was going to be kind of weird, but it (was). I was having fun. I love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31049]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't think it was going to be kind of weird, but it (was). I was having fun. I love those guys and I miss them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He got stronger as the game went on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32498]]></link><description><![CDATA[He got stronger as the game went on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48849</guid></item></channel></rss>