<?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[Alone!--That worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;  Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone!--That worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;  Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known,   Of hope laid waste, knells in that word--Alone!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52072]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10597]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13974]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From hyperborean skies Embodied dark, what clouds of vandals rise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56518]]></link><description><![CDATA[From hyperborean skies Embodied dark, what clouds of vandals rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fears vanish as the danger approaches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r, Can give the heart a cheerful hour  When health is lost. Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r, Can give the heart a cheerful hour  When health is lost. Be timely wise;   With health all taste of pleasure flies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're doing everything we can to keep him ready for whatever the future brings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're doing everything we can to keep him ready for whatever the future brings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9846]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 When night comes, list thy deeds; make plain the way 'Twixt heaven and thee; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 When night comes, list thy deeds; make plain the way 'Twixt heaven and thee; block it not with delays;  But perfect all before thou sleep'st: then say:  There's one sun more strung on my Bead of days. What's good, score up for joy; the bad, well scanned.  Wash off with tears, and get thy Master's hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27902]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. [Matthew 7:7-8].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't think it was a mistake to open early for Katrina victims, and if we have to close for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41494]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't think it was a mistake to open early for Katrina victims, and if we have to close for a month to regroup, I'll be glad to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59435]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that there's a lot of passion with these people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that there's a lot of passion with these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52588]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64792]]></link><description><![CDATA[My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just a blessing to be back for another year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just a blessing to be back for another year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death.... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, who could have ever foretold that that little retrousse nose would change the laws of an empire. [Fr., Ah, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, who could have ever foretold that that little retrousse nose would change the laws of an empire. [Fr., Ah, qui jamais autoir pu dire  Que ce petit nez retrousse   Changerait les lois d'un empire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you speak insults you will hear them also. [Lat., Contumelian si dices, audies.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22845]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you speak insults you will hear them also. [Lat., Contumelian si dices, audies.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's enough maturity in the offerings from Salesforce.com now that it will open up a market opportunity beyond the early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35289]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's enough maturity in the offerings from Salesforce.com now that it will open up a market opportunity beyond the early adopters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If cats could talk, they wouldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5326]]></link><description><![CDATA[If cats could talk, they wouldn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos results when the world changes faster than people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos results when the world changes faster than people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56791]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two ill meales make the third a glutton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two ill meales make the third a glutton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just plain racism, ... What else can you call it? It's not like all 25 players are Latinos, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34252]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just plain racism, ... What else can you call it? It's not like all 25 players are Latinos, so you can't blame it all on the Latino players. It's just stupidity. It's definitely sad that there are still stupid people like that guy out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not quite where we want to be right now. But we'll give them everything we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36105]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not quite where we want to be right now. But we'll give them everything we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65512]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44961]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16414]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. [Lat., Causarum ignoratio in re nova mirationem facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20402]]></link><description><![CDATA[In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. [Lat., Causarum ignoratio in re nova mirationem facit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been blessed with very, very good weather and the wholesale price has gone down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been blessed with very, very good weather and the wholesale price has gone down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical. What Paul cares about is plain enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical. What Paul cares about is plain enough to the true heart, however far from plain to the man whose desire to understand goes ahead of his obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let nothing pass which will advantage you; Hairy in front, Occasion's bald behind.  [Lat., Rem tibi quam nosces aptam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let nothing pass which will advantage you; Hairy in front, Occasion's bald behind.  [Lat., Rem tibi quam nosces aptam dimittere noli;   Fronte capillata, post est occasio calva.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17914</guid></item></channel></rss>