<?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[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statisticians probably do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statisticians probably do it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?  Torn, trampled under feet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?  Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost,   Star-eyed intelligence?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government has an arsenal of pressure points. Individually, he might have tried each of these cases, but the culmination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government has an arsenal of pressure points. Individually, he might have tried each of these cases, but the culmination of looking at multiple trials is burdensome for any defendant. The government only has to win one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't play what's there, play what's not there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't play what's there, play what's not there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose,  Who shall tell what brightest thought   Out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose,  Who shall tell what brightest thought   Out of darkness grows?    Who, through what funereal pain,     Souls to love and peace attain?   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5302]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finality of the inventory correction is not only great for Intel but the entire semiconductor market. Investors had been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32036]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finality of the inventory correction is not only great for Intel but the entire semiconductor market. Investors had been assuming that the first quarter would be the bottom but it's nice to see real evidence of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61557]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can always tell when a man is well informed. His views are pretty much like your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1935]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can always tell when a man is well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62769]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60313]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65491]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We might not need Barry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34859]]></link><description><![CDATA[We might not need Barry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61014]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then they began to sing That extremely lovely thing,  "Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then they began to sing That extremely lovely thing,  "Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is alwways the first handicap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58647]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is alwways the first handicap to any creative functioning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Joan of Arc, Visionary, 1431 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Joan of Arc, Visionary, 1431 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933   I would have the whole of my experience one continued sense -- first, of my nothingness, and dependence on God; second, of my guiltiness and desert before Him; third, of my obligations to redeeming love, as utterly overwhelming me with its incomprehensible extent and grandeur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are making investments now so they need our advice as to how to go about doing it. So an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32873]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are making investments now so they need our advice as to how to go about doing it. So an agreement is urgent for us in the U.S..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9415]]></link><description><![CDATA[All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane -- if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground -- ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[rnAll my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64651]]></link><description><![CDATA[rnAll my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.rnAbraham LincolnrnNature, Mind, ThoughtrnI destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.rnAbraham LincolnrnFriends, DestroyrnI'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.rnAbraham LincolnrnBack, Walk, SlowrnI do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete.  For none upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12877]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete.  For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;   The best as the worst are futile here:    We wake at the self-same point of the dream,--     All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12230]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in the glances of his eye A penetrating keen and sly  Expression found its home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51084]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in the glances of his eye A penetrating keen and sly  Expression found its home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream's, like a meteor, to the troubled air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream's, like a meteor, to the troubled air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From fibers of pain and hope and trouble And toil and happiness,--one by one,--  Twisted together, or single or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11128]]></link><description><![CDATA[From fibers of pain and hope and trouble And toil and happiness,--one by one,--  Twisted together, or single or double,   The varying thread of our life is spun.    Hope shall cheer though the chain be galling;     Light shall come though the gloom be falling;      Faith will list for the Master calling       Our hearts to his rest,--when the day is done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are the pauses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are the pauses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58365]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44066]]></link><description><![CDATA[By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10546]]></link><description><![CDATA[We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It didn't take long. I saw early on that he was a guy who was going to be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33172]]></link><description><![CDATA[It didn't take long. I saw early on that he was a guy who was going to be able to play for us, with his talent and abilities, and he had worked hard to get in shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55865]]></link><description><![CDATA[What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51864]]></link><description><![CDATA[How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the documents he inadvertently left behind was a draft of a document proclaiming himself as president once again, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35866]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the documents he inadvertently left behind was a draft of a document proclaiming himself as president once again,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43030]]></link><description><![CDATA[The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60076</guid></item></channel></rss>