<?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[Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387   What art Thou then, my God? What, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387   What art Thou then, my God? What, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all changing; never new, never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the Proud, and they know it not; ever working, ever at rest; still gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and over-spreading; creating, nourishing, and maturing; seeking, yet having all things. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60175]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will keep looking for problems now, so that when we finish this plant it will be safe and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31435]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will keep looking for problems now, so that when we finish this plant it will be safe and it will operate as designed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is a wordthat is hardly ever spokenDeceit is a wordthat makes hearts brokenLove is a wordspoken many, many timesHate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is a wordthat is hardly ever spokenDeceit is a wordthat makes hearts brokenLove is a wordspoken many, many timesHate is a wordthat brings out prejudiced crimesTrying is a wordactions taken that are confusingGiving-up is a wordnot or winning but of losingBeginning is a wordthat means a new startForever is a word that doesn't play its partBreeze is a wordtalking about the windFresh is a wordtelling how to begin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13698]]></link><description><![CDATA[With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Main chance. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Main chance. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19990]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome theobstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome theobstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more thanthe intelligence quotient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, there was one fellow that wanted to give me a good swift kick in the rear end for not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, there was one fellow that wanted to give me a good swift kick in the rear end for not getting our work done,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise;  Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise;  Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade,   Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread,    Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display,     To guard their beauties from the sunny ray;      Or sweating slaves support the shady load,       When eastern monarchs show their state abroad;        Britain in winter only knows its aid,         To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and watch me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/414]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and watch me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.") [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57340]]></link><description><![CDATA[To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.") [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to Jesus, by far the most important thing about praying is to keep at it... Be importunate, Jesus says ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6763]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to Jesus, by far the most important thing about praying is to keep at it... Be importunate, Jesus says -- not, one assumes, because you have to beat a path to God's door before he'll open it, but because until you beat the path maybe there's no way of getting to your door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We vote too much. We deliberate too little. We have brought within the scope of the federal jurisdiction a vast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47177]]></link><description><![CDATA[We vote too much. We deliberate too little. We have brought within the scope of the federal jurisdiction a vast number of subjects that do not belong here, but are nevertheless here. What we need to do is to stop passing laws. We have enough laws now to govern the world for the next ten thousand years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We found the austere conditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33746]]></link><description><![CDATA[We found the austere conditions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15846]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45325]]></link><description><![CDATA[And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation- guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation- guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has proven to be a very effective [model]. It is a single point for education, enablement--what I call kicking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33852]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has proven to be a very effective [model]. It is a single point for education, enablement--what I call kicking the tires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59852]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GM takes no position on the matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28667]]></link><description><![CDATA[GM takes no position on the matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a good poet's made, as well as born, And such wast thou! Look how the father's face  Lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55325]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a good poet's made, as well as born, And such wast thou! Look how the father's face  Lives in his issue; even so the race   Of Shakespeare's mind and manner brightly shine    In his well-turned and true-filed lines;     In each of which he seems to shake a lance,      As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48224]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will the highways on the Internet become more few? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will the highways on the Internet become more few?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52189]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is not the doctor. It is the disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is not the doctor. It is the disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4038]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's weird that people get rewarded for being the millionth fan, or visitor, and the first one gets nothing. Thank ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36909]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's weird that people get rewarded for being the millionth fan, or visitor, and the first one gets nothing. Thank you for not appreciating my work before 999,999 people, here's a gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43965]]></link><description><![CDATA[All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,-- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, butas a group decide nothing can be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21189]]></link><description><![CDATA[A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, butas a group decide nothing can be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave To tell us this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2788]]></link><description><![CDATA[There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave To tell us this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never seek your value from your father's accomplishments, your real value lies in what you achieve. That's what defines you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never seek your value from your father's accomplishments, your real value lies in what you achieve. That's what defines you and that's what you will be remembered by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David's outstanding experience and expertise in business banking will be a tremendous asset to our business clients and Bremer employees. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36957]]></link><description><![CDATA[David's outstanding experience and expertise in business banking will be a tremendous asset to our business clients and Bremer employees. He is the ideal person for this position, and I am thrilled to welcome David to Bremer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20024]]></link><description><![CDATA[God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/75]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/75</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be our own before we can be another's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26298]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be our own before we can be another's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn. [Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43045]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn. [Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,  Discovered in his fraud, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,  Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16637</guid></item></channel></rss>