<?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[Is not the winding up witnesses, And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?  For witnesses, like watches, go  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not the winding up witnesses, And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?  For witnesses, like watches, go   Just as they're set, too fast or slow;    And where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd,     'Tis ten to one that side is cast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43260]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to talk and to do yogic breathing exercisesat the same time. Kissing, talking, eating, breathing..must drive carefully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/202]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to talk and to do yogic breathing exercisesat the same time. Kissing, talking, eating, breathing..must drive carefully in each others' corridors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This relationship is based on a firm belief in shared values and in principles that we defend and that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39087]]></link><description><![CDATA[This relationship is based on a firm belief in shared values and in principles that we defend and that we proclaim and that we assume.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...there is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47337]]></link><description><![CDATA[...there is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstinence is easier than temperance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstinence is easier than temperance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42841]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. [It., Oh! ben provvide il cielo,  Ch' uom per ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. [It., Oh! ben provvide il cielo,  Ch' uom per delitto mai lieto non sia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best fishing in troubled waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Best fishing in troubled waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Some callers] aren't paying their electric (bill) in order to get their medicine, ... aren't getting their medicine in order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33610]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Some callers] aren't paying their electric (bill) in order to get their medicine, ... aren't getting their medicine in order to pay their electric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edwards commented as he signed an extension to his contract. We have good young players in the program and strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Edwards commented as he signed an extension to his contract. We have good young players in the program and strong schedules in the coming years. The future looks bright for BYU football. I also want to get a number of projects off the ground before I retire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't bring back the past. It's gone. All you can do is let go, move on, and make better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62904]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't bring back the past. It's gone. All you can do is let go, move on, and make better memories for the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These survey results clearly demonstrate that many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy. The Freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32807]]></link><description><![CDATA[These survey results clearly demonstrate that many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy. The Freedom Museum is designed to inspire people to understand and value their freedoms. The Freedom Museum will present freedoms in not merely a historical context, but in modern day examples, allowing people young and old to relate to modern day freedom debates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16651]]></link><description><![CDATA[When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/680]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48568]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back in the Saddle Again ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Back in the Saddle Again]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the results of the team are indicative of decisions that were made by the board two years ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41797]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the results of the team are indicative of decisions that were made by the board two years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47273]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O ye who teach the ingenuous youth of nations-- Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain;  I pray ye flog ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48754]]></link><description><![CDATA[O ye who teach the ingenuous youth of nations-- Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain;  I pray ye flog them upon all occasions,   It mends their morals--never mind the pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moments of complete apathy are the best for new creations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moments of complete apathy are the best for new creations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48090]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62347]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to allcreative endeavors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to allcreative endeavors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the addition of Web access to our free package of basic services and the planned acceleration of our highly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31395]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the addition of Web access to our free package of basic services and the planned acceleration of our highly successful subscriber acquisition program, we hope to be providing Web access to more individuals than any ISP or online service other than America Online before too much longer,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is knowing how far to go too far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is knowing how far to go too far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're paid by companies. Having said that, I think the Internet is the best thing that ever happened for consumer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37003]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're paid by companies. Having said that, I think the Internet is the best thing that ever happened for consumer affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He allows very readily, that the eyes and footsteps of the master are things most salutary to the land. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1950]]></link><description><![CDATA[He allows very readily, that the eyes and footsteps of the master are things most salutary to the land. [Lat., Oculos et vestiga domini, res agro saluberrimas, facilius admittit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. -Matthew Arnold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. -Matthew Arnold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look upon you as a gem of the old rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41408]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9887]]></link><description><![CDATA[A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1305]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lost our bona fide closer and our No. 1 guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41375]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lost our bona fide closer and our No. 1 guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has snuck into laboratories and zoos, found people with monkeys as pets. The story is amazing because of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37454]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has snuck into laboratories and zoos, found people with monkeys as pets. The story is amazing because of the extent he's gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just to make certain that I wasn't missing anything, as we see a lot of people running around talking about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just to make certain that I wasn't missing anything, as we see a lot of people running around talking about the basis for all these values, I went back and reread the New Testament the other day, from one side to the other, and make certain that I hadn't missed anything. You know what? In the three years of Jesus Christ's mission, of his ministry, there is no mention whatsoever — or even a hint — that you ought to be taking health care or educational opportunity away from children in order to give to the richest people in the world. None whatsoever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27308]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27308</guid></item></channel></rss>