<?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[We've had bad luck with our kids--they've all grown up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had bad luck with our kids--they've all grown up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55330]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38535]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why wasn't someone on top of this years ago? I don't have an answer to that. The step decline ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why wasn't someone on top of this years ago? I don't have an answer to that. The step decline ... got people's attention. That made it possible to start looking at this in great detail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists, nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists, nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of the Slavs will turn us from our aim of protecting and extending German influence all the world over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49269]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    In questions of this sort there are two things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49083]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3328]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has never hoped can never despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12019]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has never hoped can never despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. Itis a constant state of awareness of oneness with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. Itis a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your ignorance cramps my conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your ignorance cramps my conversation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. -David Tyson Gentry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16934]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. -David Tyson Gentry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9627]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity is the sin of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity is the sin of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He enters the port with a full sail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51799]]></link><description><![CDATA[He enters the port with a full sail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16714]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55521]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; Yet man is born ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More than likely, I'm going to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40718]]></link><description><![CDATA[More than likely, I'm going to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most water conservation measures can save our customers money both in the short and long runs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most water conservation measures can save our customers money both in the short and long runs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26620]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14549]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's still a lot of softball to be played. We would like for the tournament to be here but our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37542]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's still a lot of softball to be played. We would like for the tournament to be here but our goal is to qualify for the tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He attempts to use language which he does not know. [Lat., Negatas artifex sequi voces.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25131]]></link><description><![CDATA[He attempts to use language which he does not know. [Lat., Negatas artifex sequi voces.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All we ask is to be let alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20728]]></link><description><![CDATA[All we ask is to be let alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get rid of the volatility factor the stock option expense creates, the earnings growth was actually very good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38454]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get rid of the volatility factor the stock option expense creates, the earnings growth was actually very good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just couldn't get everyone doing their normal thing. And our shots weren't falling either. With a solid team like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33374]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just couldn't get everyone doing their normal thing. And our shots weren't falling either. With a solid team like that, you can't afford to be off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on sin:  Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on sin:  Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation or hell, is the permanent choice of the not-God. God does not (in the monstrous old-fashioned phrase) "send" anybody to hell; hell is that state of the soul in which its choice becomes obdurate and fixed; the punishment (so to call it) of that soul is to remain eternally in that State which it has chosen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said,  This is my own, my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said,  This is my own, my native land!   Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,    As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,     From wandering on a foreign strand!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17237]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3539</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[A.I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30587]]></link><description><![CDATA[A.I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30587</guid></item></channel></rss>