<?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[Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His breast with wounds unnumber'd riven, His back to earth, his face to heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57142]]></link><description><![CDATA[His breast with wounds unnumber'd riven, His back to earth, his face to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another lean unwashed artificer. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another lean unwashed artificer. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63208]]></link><description><![CDATA[But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And still the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting  On the pallid bust of Pallas  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52982]]></link><description><![CDATA[And still the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting  On the pallid bust of Pallas   Just above my chamber door;    And his eyes have all the seeming     Of a demon's that is dreaming,      And the lamplight o'er him streaming       Throws his shadow on the floor,        And my soul from out that shadow,         That lies floating on the floor,          Shall be lifted--nevermore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinons are like assholes, Everybody's got one! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinons are like assholes, Everybody's got one!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11720]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65366]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry  The morn's approach, and greet her with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24097]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry  The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's personality can be understood from the people they mingle with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46222]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's personality can be understood from the people they mingle with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and executewith vigor; to sketch out a map of possibilities; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22075]]></link><description><![CDATA[The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and executewith vigor; to sketch out a map of possibilities; and then to treat themas probabilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Near, so very near to God, Nearer I cannot be;  For in the person of his Son   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Near, so very near to God, Nearer I cannot be;  For in the person of his Son   I am as near as he.    So dear, so very dear to God,     More dear I cannot be;      The love wherewith he loves the Son -       Such is his love to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I wanted was a refund, but instead we got treated like criminals. They made my wife cry on her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36173]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I wanted was a refund, but instead we got treated like criminals. They made my wife cry on her honeymoon, and that's priceless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit;  'Twas Presbyterian true blue;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12627]]></link><description><![CDATA[For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit;  'Twas Presbyterian true blue;   For he was of that stubborn crew    Of errant saints, whom all men grant     To be the true Church Militant;      Such as do build their faith upon       The holy text of pike and gun;        Decide all controversies by         Infallible artillery;          And prove their doctrine orthodox,           By Apostolic blows and knocks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51566]]></link><description><![CDATA[When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when we love we are stuck loving someone who has no desire to change, or no desire to work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when we love we are stuck loving someone who has no desire to change, or no desire to work things out with us in an effort to make things better, or to keep the relationship on a track of growth and fulfillment. There comes a point in time in some relationships that we must realize the only option that we have to live a good life is to let what is weighing us down in life go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to say a month out what your league deserves, but we've got six teams playing pretty good basketball. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32547]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to say a month out what your league deserves, but we've got six teams playing pretty good basketball. This last month is going to be interesting for our league like it is for all leagues, but when it's all said and done, we'll have a number of teams that deserve attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If things on earth may be to heaven resembled, It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25623]]></link><description><![CDATA[If things on earth may be to heaven resembled, It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which to-day are fables to us! [Fr., Combien de choses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14981]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which to-day are fables to us! [Fr., Combien de choses nous servoient heir d'articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd'hui!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never in my life have I ever been accused of not talking. Dan and I both ad lib. Neither one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never in my life have I ever been accused of not talking. Dan and I both ad lib. Neither one of us can keep our mouth shut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe isso constituted as to maximize play. The best games ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22382]]></link><description><![CDATA[In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe isso constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in whichall goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those inwhich the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life isdesigned to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty anduncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. Wesurvive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want itany other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48102]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24733]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. [Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natura quam illa quae ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. [Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natura quam illa quae arte perfecta sunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You brain shall be your servant instead of your master, You will rule it instead of allowing it to rule ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10061]]></link><description><![CDATA[You brain shall be your servant instead of your master, You will rule it instead of allowing it to rule you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10379]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;  Purple ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;  Purple the sails, and so perfumed that   The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver,    Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made     The water which they beat to follow faster,      As amorous of their strokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result. [Lat., Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superae sibi vindicant potestates.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While top and bottom-line results did not meet our expectations for the quarter, we remain optimistic about our prospects for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40469]]></link><description><![CDATA[While top and bottom-line results did not meet our expectations for the quarter, we remain optimistic about our prospects for growth in the future. We remain committed to profitability, excluding non-cash charges, no later than the end of calendar 2001 and we anticipate revenue for fiscal 2001 to be approximately 2.25 times fiscal 2000 revenue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/247]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I strove with none; for none was worth my strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15359]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15533]]></link><description><![CDATA[February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5638]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Control your emotion or it will control you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Control your emotion or it will control you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is a second self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is a second self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just frees you to be more honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39264]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just frees you to be more honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overwhelmingly, they're male, and overwhelmingly, they're white. But they cross the societal spectrum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overwhelmingly, they're male, and overwhelmingly, they're white. But they cross the societal spectrum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I absolutely believe that an audit is warranted; 20 years is too long, ... There have been a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31135]]></link><description><![CDATA[I absolutely believe that an audit is warranted; 20 years is too long, ... There have been a lot of allegations about this board, but the key word is 'allegations.' We need to, hopefully through an audit, see if the allegations have any merit. I'm not necessarily digging for any unethical behavior, but after 20 years, I think we should take a look.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So well she acted all and every part By turns--with that vivacious versatility,  Which many people take for want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5643]]></link><description><![CDATA[So well she acted all and every part By turns--with that vivacious versatility,  Which many people take for want of heart.   They err--'tis merely what is call'd mobility,    A thing of temperament and not of art,     Though seeming so, from its supposed facility;      And false--though true; for surely they're sincerest       Who are strongly acted on by what is nearest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen,  Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one word in America that says it all, and that word is, 'You never know.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57668]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one word in America that says it all, and that word is, 'You never know.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let yourself be controlled by these three things: your past, people, and money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let yourself be controlled by these three things: your past, people, and money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's a great leader. She's a bundle of energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38143]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's a great leader. She's a bundle of energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4490</guid></item></channel></rss>