<?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[During Apollo, there was no incentive to make things less expensive, only to win and beat the Soviet Union, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34595]]></link><description><![CDATA[During Apollo, there was no incentive to make things less expensive, only to win and beat the Soviet Union, ... That same philosophy that allowed us to win the space race slowed us down after the space race. The same people were in charge, the same philosophy was there. There was no incentive to make it economical or commercially feasible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46304]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was greek to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24074]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was greek to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He only does it to annoy you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50448]]></link><description><![CDATA[He only does it to annoy you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even miracles take a little time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even miracles take a little time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19382]]></link><description><![CDATA[[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person's fate is their own temper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58883]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person's fate is their own temper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assurance is two-thirds of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assurance is two-thirds of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A meeting between two beings who complete one another, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26822]]></link><description><![CDATA[A meeting between two beings who complete one another, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23373]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once upon a time you could wander around one country, then the next and then maybe you'd go to England ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once upon a time you could wander around one country, then the next and then maybe you'd go to England or wherever. Now they all want you to do it at the same time and you can't. It's just not physically possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5772]]></link><description><![CDATA[A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are born equal but they are also born different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are born equal but they are also born different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young.  As angels are, ripening through endless years, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young.  As angels are, ripening through endless years,   On one he leans: some call her Memory,    And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet,     With deep mysterious accords: the other,      Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams       A light divine and searching on the earth,        Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields,         Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew,          Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp           Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked            But for Tradition; we walk evermore             To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment, the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15110]]></link><description><![CDATA[A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54215]]></link><description><![CDATA[I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which two are as near one another as extreme wisdom and folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hall-Dale had done it with four of those mobile lighting stations for field hockey. So I called Kennebec Rental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hall-Dale had done it with four of those mobile lighting stations for field hockey. So I called Kennebec Rental.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There cannot be two kinds of medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41458]]></link><description><![CDATA[There cannot be two kinds of medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2653]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret is out. There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret is out. There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bliss itself is not worth having, If we're by compulsion blest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bliss itself is not worth having, If we're by compulsion blest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49096]]></link><description><![CDATA[All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54172]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now they come back with 39 counts. So this appears to be punitive. This appears to be retaliatory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now they come back with 39 counts. So this appears to be punitive. This appears to be retaliatory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so close to Mexico, your Spanish needs to be great, better than great. It has to be perfect. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39246]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so close to Mexico, your Spanish needs to be great, better than great. It has to be perfect. You have to have excellent knowledge of the game and knowledge of the language. If not, the people will let you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The challenge, which it's aggressively taken on with the Target2010 project, is to shape its explosive growth by generating quality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29369]]></link><description><![CDATA[The challenge, which it's aggressively taken on with the Target2010 project, is to shape its explosive growth by generating quality jobs and opportunities for its citizens versus quantity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66734]]></link><description><![CDATA[The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While I think the dangers of a member of the committee being blackmailed are somewhat exaggerated in political discourse, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33663]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I think the dangers of a member of the committee being blackmailed are somewhat exaggerated in political discourse, it would still be a prudent discussion for the minority leader to have with Mr. Condit, ... It can very well be that one would want to err on the side of prudence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out,  Even to a full disgrace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out,  Even to a full disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cellsthey occupied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cellsthey occupied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11543</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[You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62390]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford  Is spotless reputation. That away,   Man are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53894]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford  Is spotless reputation. That away,   Man are but gilded loam or painted clay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a man bespake a think, Which when the owner home did bring,  He that made it did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60068]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a man bespake a think, Which when the owner home did bring,  He that made it did refuse it:   And he that brought it would not use it,    And he that hath it doth now know     Whether he hath it yea or no.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/140</guid></item></channel></rss>