<?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[I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33731]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.  [Ger., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.  [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte,   Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old goths never die, they just need less makeup ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old goths never die, they just need less makeup]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53990]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age--I missed it coming and going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8357]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.  [Ger., Auch die Kultur, die alle Welt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.  [Ger., Auch die Kultur, die alle Welt beleckt,   Hat auf den Teufel sich erstreckt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is my vocation, Hal; 't is no sin for a man to labour in his vocation. -King Henry IV. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55838]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is my vocation, Hal; 't is no sin for a man to labour in his vocation. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2848]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280 JESUS, the infinite I AM, With God essentially the same, With him enthroned above all height, As God of God, and Light of Light, Thou art by thy great Father known, From all eternity his Son. Thou only dost the Father know, And wilt to all thy followers show, Who cannot doubt thy gracious will His glorious Godhead to reveal; Reveal him now, if thou art he, And live, eternal Life, in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6470]]></link><description><![CDATA[If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to say that we are compelled to abandon only a "particular theory of inspiration..." We must go on to say that that "particular theory of inspiration" is the theory of the apostles and of the Lord, and that in abandoning it we are abandoning them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally I feel we've got the cart before the horse. We need to identify: Do we need to move the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally I feel we've got the cart before the horse. We need to identify: Do we need to move the town clerk's office?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One swallow alone does not make the summer. [Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58432]]></link><description><![CDATA[One swallow alone does not make the summer. [Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16378]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With what knot shall I bind this Proteus, who is ever shifting his ground? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50396]]></link><description><![CDATA[With what knot shall I bind this Proteus, who is ever shifting his ground?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder you work, the luckier you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder you work, the luckier you get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can directly measure water ice, and then we can fly right through the plume. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32593]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can directly measure water ice, and then we can fly right through the plume.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16648]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20607]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In other words, business travelers are behaving like leisure travelers to qualify for a better price. That puts the airlines, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42418]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In other words, business travelers are behaving like leisure travelers to qualify for a better price. That puts the airlines, particularly the ailing network airlines, in a tight spot.] Profits are elusive, ... Airlines either need to raise fares, or the price of oil has to come down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The party that would play games with out stability and progress does not deserve to govern Spain, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The party that would play games with out stability and progress does not deserve to govern Spain,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day I sat thinking, almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly: cheer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2273]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day I sat thinking, almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly: cheer up, things could get worse. So I cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26831]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59521]]></link><description><![CDATA[What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27070]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is where we learn that he had two daughters... his two daughters, Sylvia and Regina. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35439]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is where we learn that he had two daughters... his two daughters, Sylvia and Regina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. [Lat., Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi aestimo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. [Lat., Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi aestimo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And this be the vocation fit, For which the founder fashioned it;  High, high above earth's life, earth's labor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4126]]></link><description><![CDATA[And this be the vocation fit, For which the founder fashioned it;  High, high above earth's life, earth's labor   E'en to the heaven's blue vault to soar.    To hover as the thunder's neighbor,     The very firmament explore.      To be a voice as from above       Like yonder stars so bright and clear,        That praise their Maker as they move,         And usher in the circling year.          Tun'd be its metal mouth alone           To things eternal and sublime.            And as the swift wing'd hours speed on             May it record the flight of time!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Developers can start working with the code. Before UIMA, there was no easy way to (collaborate on) search. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Developers can start working with the code. Before UIMA, there was no easy way to (collaborate on) search.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lady ConductorShe raised her baton....and Beethoven answeredJohn C Lehman Jr 1955 to 1989. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lady ConductorShe raised her baton....and Beethoven answeredJohn C Lehman Jr 1955 to 1989.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan "Adoption, not abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan "Adoption, not abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said to the brown, brown thrush: "Hush, hush!  Through the wood's full strains I hear   Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said to the brown, brown thrush: "Hush, hush!  Through the wood's full strains I hear   Thy monotone deep and clear,    Like a sound amid sounds most fine."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24662]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is what you are in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is what you are in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then westward ho! Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then westward ho! Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59128]]></link><description><![CDATA[No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14397</guid></item></channel></rss>