<?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[Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down;  The voice I hear this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down;  The voice I hear this passing night was heard   In ancient days by emperor and clown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/653]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54867]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture,  Of its own essence parcel pure.--   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2767]]></link><description><![CDATA[So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture,  Of its own essence parcel pure.--   From grave simplicities a dress,    And reticent demureness,     And love encinctured with reserve;      Which the woven vesture would subserve.       For outward robes in their ostents        Should show the soul's habiliments.         Therefore I say,--Thou'rt fair even so,          But better Fair I use to know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was most annoying to me as I returned as a tourist with my granddaughter is how seriously you all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41615]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was most annoying to me as I returned as a tourist with my granddaughter is how seriously you all take yourselves. Now, I know it is the capital of the free world and a lot of people there have major important jobs but most don't!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hit felt up high and that's why I lost my cool. I didn't think I'd get all those penalties, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37377]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hit felt up high and that's why I lost my cool. I didn't think I'd get all those penalties, but I feel pretty bad about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well rooted. Because if it means anything it means the in-sanctity of species which are not human.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing secure unlesse suspected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing secure unlesse suspected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky,  The dew shall weep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky,  The dew shall weep thy fall to-night;   For thou must die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it followthat electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged,models deposed, tree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21323]]></link><description><![CDATA[If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it followthat electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged,models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line (marrying Nate with minimal motivation in season three) became a little bit of a diversion - and that happens. It happens in every show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment. That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louisiana should be able to apply the word ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂadmirableÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â to her dream of a modern medical teaching facility. Yet, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Louisiana should be able to apply the word ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂadmirableÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â to her dream of a modern medical teaching facility. Yet, when a dream transcends to desire and intention is conquered by cupidity, ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂadmirabilityÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â is reduced to depravity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest...The greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52425]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest...The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the words of Jesus and the memories about him, there shines forth a self-authenticating portrait of a real person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind the words of Jesus and the memories about him, there shines forth a self-authenticating portrait of a real person in all his human uniqueness, an impression which is accessible alike to the layman and to the expert, to believer and non-believer. No reader of the gospel story can fail to be impressed by Jesus' humble submission to the will of his God on the one hand, and his mastery of all situations on the other; by his penetrating discernment of human motives and his authoritative demand of radical obedience on the one hand, and his gracious, forgiving acceptance of sinners on the other. There is nothing, either in the Messianic hopes of pre-Christian Judaism or in the later Messianic beliefs of the early Christian Church to account for this portrait. It is characterized by an originality and freshness which is beyond the power of invention. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joy late coming late departs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joy late coming late departs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11418]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are proud to play even a small part in helping our industries provide emergency shelter for the victims of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40602]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are proud to play even a small part in helping our industries provide emergency shelter for the victims of this tragedy. It appears that most of the shelters ordered by FEMA have now been produced, but we do expect to see some carryover into 2006. In addition, industry sales in 2006 may increase due both to the need to replenish dealer lots that were depleted while manufacturers diverted their production capabilities to filling FEMA orders, and the permanent rebuilding of the hurricane-stricken areas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40602</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[The CS5343 provides higher performance than the CS5330A/1A yet it is smaller and more cost effective compared to the CS5340/41. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The CS5343 provides higher performance than the CS5330A/1A yet it is smaller and more cost effective compared to the CS5340/41.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody in this room cares about kids and nobody wants to trash the Constitution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody in this room cares about kids and nobody wants to trash the Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not the time to take our time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64203]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not the time to take our time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22535]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency to work up a subjective state which, if we succeeded, we should describe as "faith", with the idea that this will somehow ensure the granting of our prayer. We have probably all done this as children. But the state of mind which desperate desire working on a strong imagination can manufacture is not faith in the Christian sense. It is a feat of psychological gymnastics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although the last, not least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although the last, not least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brands make a powerful impact on people, especially in today's world of ever-increasing consumer choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brands make a powerful impact on people, especially in today's world of ever-increasing consumer choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19444]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only paradise is paradise lost ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only paradise is paradise lost]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentration is the secret of strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentration is the secret of strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For many are called, but few are chosen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6052]]></link><description><![CDATA[For many are called, but few are chosen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weavethe web of life; he is merely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weavethe web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web,he does to himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme warm temperatures early on and wet, heavy rains could change that. That's what usually causes flooding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extreme warm temperatures early on and wet, heavy rains could change that. That's what usually causes flooding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got mass merchants who are expanding their toy space and using it to drive total store volume. These discounters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42482]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got mass merchants who are expanding their toy space and using it to drive total store volume. These discounters are not worried about the margins they make on toys. How can you compete against that?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23381]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I do no good action here, merely for the interpretation of good men, though that be one good and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8284]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I do no good action here, merely for the interpretation of good men, though that be one good and justifiable reason of my good actions: so I must do nothing for my salvation hereafter, merely for the love I bear to mine own soul, though that also be one good and justifiable reason of that action; but the primary reason in both, as well as the actions that establish a good name, as the actions that establish eternal life, must be the glory of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big trick in putting is not method the secret of putting is domination of the nerves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big trick in putting is not method the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,  By winding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,  By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46753</guid></item></channel></rss>