<?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[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50174]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was at Euphorbus at the siege of Troy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was at Euphorbus at the siege of Troy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make. -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897 To die of love, O martyrdom most blest!   For this I long, this is my heart's desire; My exile ends; I soon will be at rest.   Ye Cherubim, lend, lend to me your lyre! O dart of Seraphim, O flame of love,   Consume me wholly; hear my ardent cry! Jesu, make real my dream! Come Holy Dove!   Of love I die!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people in America believe that if you are pro-choice that means pro-abortion. It doesn't. I don't want abortion. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people in America believe that if you are pro-choice that means pro-abortion. It doesn't. I don't want abortion. Abortion should be the rarest thing in the world. I am actually personally opposed to abortion. But I don't believe that I have a right to take what is an article of faith to me and legislate it to other people. That's not how it works in America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism. If you come near them and see what conceits they entertain--they are abstractionists, and spend their days and nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application, and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, whitelight. It's God. No, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, whitelight. It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God. In a booming voice, He says: "THIS IS A SIGN. USE LINUX, THE FREE UNIX SYSTEM FOR THE 386."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It happens a lot with English bulldogs, a breed known to have difficulty giving birth. They frequently have to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It happens a lot with English bulldogs, a breed known to have difficulty giving birth. They frequently have to have a Caesarean section.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every game we have to show up to play. The whole conference has really strengthened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every game we have to show up to play. The whole conference has really strengthened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25487]]></link><description><![CDATA[In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winged mimic of the woods! thou motley fool! Who shall thy gay buffoonery describe?  Thine ever-ready notes of ridicule ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winged mimic of the woods! thou motley fool! Who shall thy gay buffoonery describe?  Thine ever-ready notes of ridicule   Pursue thy fellows still with jest and jibe:    Wit, sophist, songster, Yorick of thy tribe;     Thou sportive satirist of Nature's school;      To thee the palm of scoffing we ascribe,       Arch-mocker and mad abbot of misrule!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mmmmmmmmmm....You can almost smell the burning pork...Hey you ever thrown rocks at cops? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mmmmmmmmmm....You can almost smell the burning pork...Hey you ever thrown rocks at cops?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who runs behind truck is exhausted, he who runs in front of truck is tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46475]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who runs behind truck is exhausted, he who runs in front of truck is tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consolidation is not a goal in itself and must bring an advantage for investors, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consolidation is not a goal in itself and must bring an advantage for investors,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great necessities call forth great leaders. -Abigail Adams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great necessities call forth great leaders. -Abigail Adams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17572]]></link><description><![CDATA[For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65482]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred -- may not even be encumbrances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6016]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him laugh, who is on the right side of the hedge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him laugh, who is on the right side of the hedge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After I graduated, I was like, OK, what do I do now? ... And nothing was as great as playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40114]]></link><description><![CDATA[After I graduated, I was like, OK, what do I do now? ... And nothing was as great as playing in a band with R.L. So I just called and said, 'What if I just moved to Kansas City?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm excited for Terry (Posey) and those players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33948]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm excited for Terry (Posey) and those players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity. (after a game his team lost to the New York Nets) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57603]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity. (after a game his team lost to the New York Nets)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With foreheads villanous low. -The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56087]]></link><description><![CDATA[With foreheads villanous low. -The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good intentions are not good enough.......... ultimately we are measured by our actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good intentions are not good enough.......... ultimately we are measured by our actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The windy satisfaction of the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The windy satisfaction of the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19864]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest,  Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6907]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love. For love does not measure by a merchant's scales, not with a surveyor's chain. It hath a delicacy... unknown in any handling of material substance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say man rules the universe, That subject shore and main  Kneel down and bless the empery   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43208]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say man rules the universe, That subject shore and main  Kneel down and bless the empery   Of his majestic reign;    But a sovereign, gentler, mightier,     Man from his throne has hurled,      For the hand that rocks the cradle       Is the hand that rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call this The World Is Yours, ... It costs $1 million. Other jewelers thought I was losing my mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36905]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call this The World Is Yours, ... It costs $1 million. Other jewelers thought I was losing my mind making it, that I'm going to get stuck with it. But already we have sold four of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One stop. As bad as we played those last four minutes, we still had a shot to win it with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30264]]></link><description><![CDATA[One stop. As bad as we played those last four minutes, we still had a shot to win it with one stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Department has refused to allow the firm to tell its story to a grand jury, in violation of both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29658]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Department has refused to allow the firm to tell its story to a grand jury, in violation of both Department policy and the basic precepts of fundamental fairness,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23602]]></link><description><![CDATA[He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22793]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. -Sheila Graham.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He needn't reach the stars..stars' light reaches him..He needn't climb to God.Inside him .. Elohim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13650]]></link><description><![CDATA[He needn't reach the stars..stars' light reaches him..He needn't climb to God.Inside him .. Elohim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to urge all system builders ? indeed, all Partners ? not to supply naked PCs. It is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42596]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to urge all system builders ? indeed, all Partners ? not to supply naked PCs. It is a risk to your customers and a risk to your business ? with specifically 5 percent fewer opportunities to market software and services.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46575]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31369</guid></item></channel></rss>