<?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[In 1998-99, enterprise software companies were actually harmed by shift to Internet computing because they didn't have products to offer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30312]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 1998-99, enterprise software companies were actually harmed by shift to Internet computing because they didn't have products to offer in that category. They are now just beginning to enjoy the product cycle in Internet-architected software. In addition, there is a broad shift to e-business throughout the economy and a heightened appreciation of the value of e-commerce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first of April, some do say Is set apart for All Fools' day;  But why the people call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first of April, some do say Is set apart for All Fools' day;  But why the people call it so,   Nor I, nor they themselves, do know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray you all, If you have hitherto concealed this sight,  Let it be tenable in your silence still. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray you all, If you have hitherto concealed this sight,  Let it be tenable in your silence still.   And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,    Give it an understanding but no tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While this amount may seem large, it pales in comparison to the estimated $100 billion spent each year on bottled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34505]]></link><description><![CDATA[While this amount may seem large, it pales in comparison to the estimated $100 billion spent each year on bottled water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get the card, it's a shock. People at age 50 don't feel ready to begin a new stage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40899]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get the card, it's a shock. People at age 50 don't feel ready to begin a new stage of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try to mix in a little fun here and there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30834]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try to mix in a little fun here and there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.   - Philip James Bailey, Festus ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.   - Philip James Bailey, Festus]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face?  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/145]]></link><description><![CDATA[What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face?  How shall I charm the interval that lowers   Between this time and that sweet time of grace?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was just so mature about it. I use that same system for all my players now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36869]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was just so mature about it. I use that same system for all my players now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're trying to avoid is someone who can't afford a $20 co-pay from leaving a pharmacy without getting their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38936]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're trying to avoid is someone who can't afford a $20 co-pay from leaving a pharmacy without getting their medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14275]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a baaaadd man!! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a baaaadd man!!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is a virtue, if you don't mind being lonely ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is a virtue, if you don't mind being lonely]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20686]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not always measured in smiles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not always measured in smiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36771]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Come to me, darling; I'm lonely without thee; Daytime and nighttime I'm dreaming about thee." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12860]]></link><description><![CDATA["Come to me, darling; I'm lonely without thee; Daytime and nighttime I'm dreaming about thee."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51586]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knavery's now its own reward. [Lat., His nunc praemium est qui recta prava faciunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knavery's now its own reward. [Lat., His nunc praemium est qui recta prava faciunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unix is the answer, but only if you phrase the question very carefully. Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unix is the answer, but only if you phrase the question very carefully. Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are. Unix: It's not just 'User-Unfriendly', it's 'Proactively User-Hostile' !]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Sin is not only manifested in certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom -- unaccompanied by any vicious act -- are serious sins. They are expressions of man's separation from God, as the ultimate good, meaning, and end of human existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make it count because you can never bring back the hands of time.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make it count because you can never bring back the hands of time..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, who in less than three decades killed or maimed nearly a hundred million men, women, and children and brought untold suffering to a large portion of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  A Christian and an unbelieving poet may both be equally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  A Christian and an unbelieving poet may both be equally original and draw on resources peculiar to themselves, but with this difference. The unbeliever may take his own temperament and experience, just as they happen to stand, and consider them worth communicating simply because they are his. To the Christian his own temperament and experience, as mere fact, and as merely his, are of no value or importance whatsoever: he will deal with them, if at all, only because they are the medium through which, or the position from which, something universally profitable appeared to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day,  Naked and featherless, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day,  Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous,   Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream  Of Helicon; we therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream  Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose   Those made not poets, but the poets those.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home. [Lat., Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, eum ipsum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home. [Lat., Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, eum ipsum se intueri oportet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really not an invalid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really not an invalid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24891]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas the night before Christman, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring,--not even a mouse:  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8642]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas the night before Christman, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring,--not even a mouse:  The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,   In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. [Fr., Le premier pas, mon fils, que l'on fait dans le monde,  Est celui dont depend le reste de nos jours.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday. (atage 85). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday. (atage 85).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart,  Utters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart,  Utters another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57893]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18414</guid></item></channel></rss>