<?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[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appals me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appals me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie a blunder free us,   And foolish notion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8649]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is what makes you smile when you're tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We work in lower Manhattan. This is New York. We're not afraid of attacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We work in lower Manhattan. This is New York. We're not afraid of attacks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46129]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in the work, not with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in the work, not with the hope of making a paradise (of the earth), but simply to make it more tolerable -- not to diminish the opposition between this world and the Kingdom of God, but simply to modify the opposition between the disorder of this world and the order of preservation that God wants it to have -- not to bring in the Kingdom of God, but so that the Gospel might be proclaimed in order that all men might truly hear the good news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only a holy grail as long as you don't find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66395]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only a holy grail as long as you don't find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  I saw full surely in this and in all, that ere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  I saw full surely in this and in all, that ere God made us he loved us; which love never slackened, nor ever shall be. And in this love he hath done all his works; and in this love he hath made all things profitable to us; and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning; but the love wherein he made us was in him from without beginning; in which love we have our beginning. And all this shall we see in God, without end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63830]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rose has but a Summer reign, The daisy never dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rose has but a Summer reign, The daisy never dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The T1 addresses this issue as a massively threaded processor that can handle more tasks on a single piece of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34796]]></link><description><![CDATA[The T1 addresses this issue as a massively threaded processor that can handle more tasks on a single piece of silicon. Customers can now do a lot more without adding hardware.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It can be very hard for children and teens to eat in healthy ways when they're inundated with this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30851]]></link><description><![CDATA[It can be very hard for children and teens to eat in healthy ways when they're inundated with this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always want to have more dancers in my company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always want to have more dancers in my company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family comes first. Maybe that\'s what makes me different from other guys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66852]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family comes first. Maybe that\'s what makes me different from other guys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25518]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far beyond the degree to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24473]]></link><description><![CDATA[No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far beyond the degree to which its leadership is representative. -Edgar Powell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. All the beings in the world. One should create such a determination that `I will lead all of them into nirvana'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is only patience. [Fr., Le Genie, c'est la patience.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is only patience. [Fr., Le Genie, c'est la patience.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is prudent to learn what to avoid from the misfortunes of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51621]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is prudent to learn what to avoid from the misfortunes of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic is the anatomy of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is the anatomy of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Friend is someone who will help you move; A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17003]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Friend is someone who will help you move; A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is encouraging to see a kid come up and do what he doing. He's got five home runs. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35269]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is encouraging to see a kid come up and do what he doing. He's got five home runs. That's more than the starting eight combined. You watch him in batting practice, and you know he is a special kind of hitter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are, to whom my satire seems too bold; Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough,  And something said of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54712]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are, to whom my satire seems too bold; Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough,  And something said of Chartres much too rough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issues that are important to voters (in Illinois) are Democratic issues. If the Republicans want to win back the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issues that are important to voters (in Illinois) are Democratic issues. If the Republicans want to win back the Governor's Mansion, they really have to put up a Jim Edgar-type candidate, a moderate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There would bee no great ones if there were no little ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There would bee no great ones if there were no little ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9210]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little gale will soon disperse that cloud And blow it to the source from whence it came.  Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57908]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little gale will soon disperse that cloud And blow it to the source from whence it came.  Thy very beams will dry those vapors up,   For every cloud engenders not a storm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all progress, adn the essay into a better world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist   But if the holy prophets had scruples against separating themselves from the church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist   But if the holy prophets had scruples against separating themselves from the church because of many great misdeeds, not of one man or another but of almost all the people, we claim too much for ourselves if we dare withdraw at once from the communion of the church just because the morals of all do not meet our standard, or even square with the profession of Christian faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. [It., D'uomo e il ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53811]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. [It., D'uomo e il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono  Scerne il dolor del fallo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back home, people are really, really friendly. We grew up playing the same games and doing the same things. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Back home, people are really, really friendly. We grew up playing the same games and doing the same things. It's different here because we don't have the same connection with kids. We're homesick most of the time, but we know we're here for a purpose and you try and make your dream happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27283]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   I have held many things in my hands, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From now to the first semester of 2006, our economy is still bumpy, thus the monetary sector would still be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30898]]></link><description><![CDATA[From now to the first semester of 2006, our economy is still bumpy, thus the monetary sector would still be tight. After the first semester of 2006, the economy will start moving. We will see whether or not the tight monetary policy needs to be relaxed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63599]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3591]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was good to get them under our belt. North Carolina wasn't really a close match. We owed them a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34551]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was good to get them under our belt. North Carolina wasn't really a close match. We owed them a little revenge there because we lost to them earlier in the year, so it was a big win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24053</guid></item></channel></rss>