<?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 probably dominated for 70 minutes out of 90 tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38426]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably dominated for 70 minutes out of 90 tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worcester County has great potential for growing grapes. We're still trying to figure the absolute best grapes and we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worcester County has great potential for growing grapes. We're still trying to figure the absolute best grapes and we have experiments under way, but you can grow everything on the Eastern Shore and we're very encouraged by whites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best you can beat any given momentis yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34408]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best you can beat any given momentis yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only your friends steal your books ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only your friends steal your books]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His was the sort of career that made the Recording Angel think seriously about taking up shorthand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60554]]></link><description><![CDATA[His was the sort of career that made the Recording Angel think seriously about taking up shorthand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies,  To make the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8905]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies,  To make the shifting clouds be what you please,   Or let the easily persuaded eyes    Own each quaint likeness issuing from the mould     Of a friend's fancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee,  In unreprov'd pleasures free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee,  In unreprov'd pleasures free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin,  Mein Herz ist schwer.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19047]]></link><description><![CDATA[My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin,  Mein Herz ist schwer.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death to all fanatics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death to all fanatics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conform and be dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conform and be dull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60241]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wish for death is a coward's part. [Lat., Timidi est optare necem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10492]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wish for death is a coward's part. [Lat., Timidi est optare necem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time,  That we no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time,  That we no more our verse would scrawl,   For Shakespeare he had said it all!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  If man is man and God is God, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4961]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he is leading them away from their unwanted selves. Surrender to a leader is not a means to an end but a fulfillment. Whither they are led is of secondary importance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can read this, thank a teacher. -Anonymous teacher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13541]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can read this, thank a teacher. -Anonymous teacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[there's nothing to go back to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40062]]></link><description><![CDATA[there's nothing to go back to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is not well. I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come!  Till then sit still, my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58413]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is not well. I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come!  Till then sit still, my soul. Foul deeds will rise,   Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47050]]></link><description><![CDATA[A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don't drink too much. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17646]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man proposes, and God disposes. [It., Ordina l'uomo, e dio dispone.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man proposes, and God disposes. [It., Ordina l'uomo, e dio dispone.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste makes waste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste makes waste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The T1 addresses this issue as a massively threaded processor that can handle more tasks on a single piece of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34796]]></link><description><![CDATA[The T1 addresses this issue as a massively threaded processor that can handle more tasks on a single piece of silicon. Customers can now do a lot more without adding hardware.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17460]]></link><description><![CDATA[My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know your selfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know your selfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is influence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17489]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With thee conversing I forget all time: All seasons and their change, all please alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10101]]></link><description><![CDATA[With thee conversing I forget all time: All seasons and their change, all please alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3055]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20555]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather be a dog and bay the moon Than such a Roman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54412]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather be a dog and bay the moon Than such a Roman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a trip to Mexico [in 1984]... I fell ill... The illness was protracted... I suffered a mild depression... When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8413]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a trip to Mexico [in 1984]... I fell ill... The illness was protracted... I suffered a mild depression... When [an episcopal priest] prayed for my recovery, I choked up and wept. The only prayer I knew word for word was the Pater Noster. On that day and in the days after it, I found myself repeating the Lord's Prayer, again and again, and meaning every word of it. Quite suddenly, when I was awake one night, a light dawned on me, and I realized what had happened... After many years of affirming God's existence and trying to give adequate reasons for that affirmation, I found myself believing in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48481]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[she explains, ''but I think they really need to go back to their core constituents. I'd like to focus on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41631]]></link><description><![CDATA[she explains, ''but I think they really need to go back to their core constituents. I'd like to focus on being the orchestra of the city of Baltimore and figure out how to give everyone in the community access to art music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18922]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centres of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43262]]></link><description><![CDATA[He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21308]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32015]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64247</guid></item></channel></rss>