<?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[Backward, flow backward, O full tide of years! I am so weary of toil and of tears,  Toil without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Backward, flow backward, O full tide of years! I am so weary of toil and of tears,  Toil without recompense--tears all in vain,   Take them and give me my childhood again.    I have grown weary of dust and decay,     Weary of sowing for others to reap;      Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avarice is the vice of declining years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avarice is the vice of declining years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14897]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, wouldst thou have me turn pelican, and feed thee out of my own vitals? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46006]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, wouldst thou have me turn pelican, and feed thee out of my own vitals?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50934]]></link><description><![CDATA[One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst  Of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62506]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst  Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23360]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease,  Ah! little do you think upon   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease,  Ah! little do you think upon   The dangers of the seas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is theend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is theend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We brought a very competitive team and thought we could win. People didn't take us seriously in the seeding meeting. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39243]]></link><description><![CDATA[We brought a very competitive team and thought we could win. People didn't take us seriously in the seeding meeting. I think our effort will gain respect for our program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Charcoal-Burner and the FullerA CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Charcoal-Burner and the FullerA CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that they should be far better neighbors and that their housekeeping expenses would be lessened. The Fuller replied, The arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you would immediately blacken again with your charcoal. Moral: Like will draw like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But something may be done that we will not; And sometimes we are devils to ourselves  When we will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58903]]></link><description><![CDATA[But something may be done that we will not; And sometimes we are devils to ourselves  When we will tempt the frailty of our powers,   Presuming on their changeful potency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17872]]></link><description><![CDATA[If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men have more consideration for themselves than for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51733]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men have more consideration for themselves than for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give God thy heart, thy service, and thy gold; The day wears on, and time is waxing old.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give God thy heart, thy service, and thy gold; The day wears on, and time is waxing old.   - Unattributed Author,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes underpressure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57670]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes underpressure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look back, and smile on perils past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look back, and smile on perils past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who focused onthe shock of shardsas the phoenix birdburst from his shellnearly missed the sightof his wondrous maiden flightas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who focused onthe shock of shardsas the phoenix birdburst from his shellnearly missed the sightof his wondrous maiden flightas he soared up and awayand out of sight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2146]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is there so much controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who would be willing to test ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is there so much controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who would be willing to test any drug they could come up with]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one success-to be able to spend your lifein your own way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22392]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one success-to be able to spend your lifein your own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the twelfth day I left it, my Unix gave to me: Twelve boards a-blowing; Eleven chips a-smoking; Ten ports ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60261]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the twelfth day I left it, my Unix gave to me: Twelve boards a-blowing; Eleven chips a-smoking; Ten ports a-jamming; Nine floppies frying; Eight gettys dying; Seven blown partitions; Six bad controllers; Five core dumps; Four bad blocks; Three heads crashed; Two faulty tapes; And a burnt-out V.D.T.  On the thirteenth day I started adapting my Nintendo for the VME bus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kid is unbelievable, ... I've never seen anything like it, in the NFL, or whatever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33509]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kid is unbelievable, ... I've never seen anything like it, in the NFL, or whatever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if we've made a statement, but it's enjoyable. This tournament kind of emulates the state tournament, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31954]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if we've made a statement, but it's enjoyable. This tournament kind of emulates the state tournament, so we can learn from this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20788]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During my most recent visit two weeks ago, I was struck by the destruction that still remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34078]]></link><description><![CDATA[During my most recent visit two weeks ago, I was struck by the destruction that still remains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is no difference, there is only indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that makes his bed ill, lies there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49377]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that makes his bed ill, lies there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53997]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45172]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oddly, the hottest heterosexual women can engage in public lesbian activity, or girl-girl activity, without threatening their heterosexual identity at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oddly, the hottest heterosexual women can engage in public lesbian activity, or girl-girl activity, without threatening their heterosexual identity at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who stops being better stops being good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2282]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who stops being better stops being good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Detroit is doing a great job pulling all the elements together. It's our version of the Winter Olympics, and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Detroit is doing a great job pulling all the elements together. It's our version of the Winter Olympics, and it is a Winter Olympics year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor. There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice  Proposing with the Prince and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor. There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice  Proposing with the Prince and Claudio.   Whisper her ear and tell her, I and Ursley    Walk in the orchard, and our whole discourse     Is all of her. Say that thou overheard'st us;      And bid her steal into the pleached bower,       Where honeysuckles, ripened by the sun,        Forbid the sun to enter--like favorites,         Made proud by princes, that advance their pride          Against that power that bred it. There will she hide her           To listen our propose. This is thy office.            Bear thee well in it and leave us alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6207]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had taken refuge from that place,   And not with Thee. For we against creation's bars had beat   Like prisoned eagles, through great worlds had sought Though but a foot of ground to plant our feet,   Where Thou wert not. And only when we found in earth and air,   In heaven or hell, that such might nowhere be That we could not flee from Thee anywhere,   We fled to Thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20452]]></link><description><![CDATA[My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benevolence is a commitment to achieving the values derivable from life with other people in society, by treating them as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benevolence is a commitment to achieving the values derivable from life with other people in society, by treating them as potential trading partners, recognizing their humanity, independence, and individuality, and the harmony between their interests and ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52002</guid></item></channel></rss>