<?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[There are two sides to every question, because, when there are no longer two sides it ceases to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52748]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two sides to every question, because, when there are no longer two sides it ceases to be a question]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime rot and consume themselves in little time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime rot and consume themselves in little time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8943]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66191]]></link><description><![CDATA[A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You kick against the goad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51760]]></link><description><![CDATA[You kick against the goad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, please save me from your followers! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47699]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, please save me from your followers!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft as some song divine, thy story flows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft as some song divine, thy story flows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you  His absolute 'shall'? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you  His absolute 'shall'?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27623]]></link><description><![CDATA[In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53585]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65059]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47363]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our new HD4000U brings widescreen imaging to business and professional environments to complement the latest presentation tools and laptops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our new HD4000U brings widescreen imaging to business and professional environments to complement the latest presentation tools and laptops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your own star! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your own star!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a bundle of untruths ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40869]]></link><description><![CDATA[a bundle of untruths]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14145]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All we lacked was a goal. We played well and controlled the play as we wanted, but we just couldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30998]]></link><description><![CDATA[All we lacked was a goal. We played well and controlled the play as we wanted, but we just couldn't break them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30998</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[We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25237]]></link><description><![CDATA[We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since you go where all have gone before, why do you torment your your disgraceful life with such mean ambitions, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since you go where all have gone before, why do you torment your your disgraceful life with such mean ambitions, O miser? [Lat., Abiturus illuc priores abierunt,  Quid mente caeca torques spiritum?   Tibi dico, avare.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the new arms race. Companies have become addicted to incentives and states have forgotten how to attract investment without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31271]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the new arms race. Companies have become addicted to incentives and states have forgotten how to attract investment without offering them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the lessons I have learned is that clients understand the need for X-ray inspection, but sometimes have difficulty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37426]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the lessons I have learned is that clients understand the need for X-ray inspection, but sometimes have difficulty integrating the function into their operations. With the changeover to lead-free assemblies, the need for X-ray inspection services will become more critical, and so will the need for manufacturers to understand how to integrate these tools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian Mission is thus anchored in dogma, is a result of what ordinary Christians believe. It is God's plan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian Mission is thus anchored in dogma, is a result of what ordinary Christians believe. It is God's plan, God's activity; but because God became man and took up manhood into Himself, it is God's will embodied in active obedience on the part of the Christian individual, the Christian group within the Church, and the Christian Church as a whole -- we are all involved in it, all of us, in our various callings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21038]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If 899 matches go out, the900th is enough to set the world aflame.(paraphrased from imperfectmemory of poster)http://www.vahini.org/downloads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22707]]></link><description><![CDATA[If 899 matches go out, the900th is enough to set the world aflame.(paraphrased from imperfectmemory of poster)http://www.vahini.org/downloads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption is a malady not only effecting developing countries, but also the developed world, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption is a malady not only effecting developing countries, but also the developed world,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft has stepped up to the plate in a way we've never seen before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has stepped up to the plate in a way we've never seen before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power  Upon a shining ore, and called ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power  Upon a shining ore, and called it gold;   Before whose image bow the vulgar great,    The vainly rich, the miserable proud,     The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings,      And with blind feelings reverence the power       That grinds them to the dust of misery.        But in the temple of their hireling hearts         Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn          All earthly things but virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19512]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not swear at all; Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,  Which is the god of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not swear at all; Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,  Which is the god of my idolatry,   And I'll believe thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a beautiful thriller, very, very well written, ... I don't go to work unless I feel I really have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29596]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a beautiful thriller, very, very well written, ... I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29596</guid></item></channel></rss>