<?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[In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2008]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49017]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,  Is better than life with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13071]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,  Is better than life with love forever,   And love is the sweetest thing on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To him that will, waies are not wanting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50008]]></link><description><![CDATA[To him that will, waies are not wanting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I can tell you is that we're continuing to gather information. I think Allen's attendance at the meeting reflects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31898]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I can tell you is that we're continuing to gather information. I think Allen's attendance at the meeting reflects the governor's desire to get all the input that he can possibly get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56901]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never had ill workeman good tooles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never had ill workeman good tooles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4397]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63939]]></link><description><![CDATA[All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune. [Lat., In omni adversitate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57238]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune. [Lat., In omni adversitate fortunae, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15223]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The investments we're making, and the way we're executing our growth strategies, continue to pay off. In 1998 we invested ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The investments we're making, and the way we're executing our growth strategies, continue to pay off. In 1998 we invested a record $7 billion in our businesses, and we continue to generate powerful revenue growth from sources such as data, wireless, Internet, enhanced calling features, and digital television.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a pretty paranoid guy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a pretty paranoid guy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19326]]></link><description><![CDATA[The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was messy, but he finished the game. There were moments when he was throwing the ball very well and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31329]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was messy, but he finished the game. There were moments when he was throwing the ball very well and there were times when he lost touch with the strike zone. I was impressed with how he came back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47395]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict which each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.  [Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18398]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.  [Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich der Sinn.   Es wachst der Mensch mit seinen grossern Zwecken.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage. -Confucius Analects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10401]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage. -Confucius Analects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's worth at least $2 million, but probably a great deal more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36922]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's worth at least $2 million, but probably a great deal more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.   - Ralph Waldo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55316]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64964]]></link><description><![CDATA[He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no forgiveness in nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63335]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no forgiveness in nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15860]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody knows how to love but few people know how to stay in love with one person forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody knows how to love but few people know how to stay in love with one person forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20918]]></link><description><![CDATA[No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carpe per diem - seize the check. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carpe per diem - seize the check.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. -Peter Ustinov. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. -Peter Ustinov.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear,  Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54908]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear,  Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire   In all things which our needful faith require.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64362]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57527]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5121]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57604</guid></item></channel></rss>