<?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[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46196]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4706]]></link><description><![CDATA[If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A work of skill, surpassing sense, A labor of Omnipotence;  Though frail as dust it meet thine eye,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A work of skill, surpassing sense, A labor of Omnipotence;  Though frail as dust it meet thine eye,   He form'd this gnat who built the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We felt we could still be true to the open-source roots and at the same time go to a business ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40463]]></link><description><![CDATA[We felt we could still be true to the open-source roots and at the same time go to a business model that was proven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The step taken (by the EU) was not sufficient to start negotiation in other sectors, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31249]]></link><description><![CDATA[The step taken (by the EU) was not sufficient to start negotiation in other sectors,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The] doctrine of progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6740]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The] doctrine of progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. Its core was the conviction that in thus extending the range of western liberal culture and developing its assumptions, they were in effect establishing on earth that which would grow into the kingdom of God. Some put it sharply but un-Biblically: "building the Kingdom". That whole view exists today only as debris, for it has foundered on the rocks, not so much of human sin, as of the contradictions and complexities of the very western culture which was the substance of its belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My parents must have had tough decisions to make, but I was never called on to bear witness to their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53863]]></link><description><![CDATA[My parents must have had tough decisions to make, but I was never called on to bear witness to their anxiety. To some people that might sound like repression, but I think repression can be a positive value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears:  Pause where we may upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears:  Pause where we may upon the desert road,   Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48121]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a job's worth doing, it's too hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18730]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danny can't kick. It seems bizarre. I'm not prepared to risk him. But, hopefully, he will be able to sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Danny can't kick. It seems bizarre. I'm not prepared to risk him. But, hopefully, he will be able to sit on the bench.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1786]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a wise child that knows his own father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5993]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a wise child that knows his own father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (the special teams) did exactly what we asked them to do...we started out the game great, set the tempo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32851]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (the special teams) did exactly what we asked them to do...we started out the game great, set the tempo and it was just real fun from then on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not out of the realm of possibility that the second-quarter numbers could be strong enough to support the stock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32041]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not out of the realm of possibility that the second-quarter numbers could be strong enough to support the stock at a higher valuation, ... If you keep raising estimates, you probably could keep expanding the multiple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we see them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we see them in the hand of God, Who dispenses them; when we know that it is our loving Father who abases and distresses us; our sufferings will lose their bitterness and become even a matter of consolation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dignity belongs to the conquered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dignity belongs to the conquered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47893]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty--the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The total package. You get your full money's worth with a guy like that. He plays a lot, he goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The total package. You get your full money's worth with a guy like that. He plays a lot, he goes out there and doesn't back down. He blocks, he catches the ball, he runs with the ball - he does everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25461]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger always comes from frustrated expectations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger always comes from frustrated expectations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know that we can steer it sufficiently to sample another region of the crater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32594]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know that we can steer it sufficiently to sample another region of the crater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60279]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Appearing Sunday on CNN's] Reliable Sources, ... I tried to get a deal a year ago. I spoke to Mr. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34944]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Appearing Sunday on CNN's] Reliable Sources, ... I tried to get a deal a year ago. I spoke to Mr. Fitzgerald, the prosecutor, and he did not agree at that time to something that he later did agree to, which was to limit the scope of the questions he would ask, so as to assure that the only source he would effectively be asking about was Mr. Libby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1318]]></link><description><![CDATA[To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48443]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.   - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45231]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.   - Franklin J. Dickman,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58835]]></link><description><![CDATA[When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is only afraid of the people one cares for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5248]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is only afraid of the people one cares for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64314]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;  I saw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60477]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;  I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise   As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand:    A thousand years their cloudy wings expand     Around me, and a dying Glory smiles      O'er the far times, when many a subject land       Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines,        Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1249]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1245</guid></item></channel></rss>