<?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[...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62681]]></link><description><![CDATA[...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had better stop writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41086]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had better stop writing for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of the valley has been at or below freezing for the last three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of the valley has been at or below freezing for the last three days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66720]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Continuing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Continuing a short series on prayer:  Even if all the things that people prayed for happened -- which they do not -- this would not prove what Christians mean by the efficacy of prayer. For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them. Invariable "success" in prayer would not prove the Christian doctrine at all. It would prove something more like magic -- a power in certain human beings to control, or compel, the course of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1229]]></link><description><![CDATA[As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. -Mahatma Gandhi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. (Solanio:) I would she were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17890]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. (Solanio:) I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapped ginger or made her neighbors believe she wept for the death of a third husband.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11499]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By words the mind is winged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4711]]></link><description><![CDATA[By words the mind is winged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59019]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The still small voice of gratitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18155]]></link><description><![CDATA[The still small voice of gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet thanks I must you con That you are thieves professed, that you work not  In holier shapes; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet thanks I must you con That you are thieves professed, that you work not  In holier shapes; for there is boundless theft   In limited professions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to see a band in New York. The lead singer got on the microphone, and he said How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44422]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to see a band in New York. The lead singer got on the microphone, and he said How many of you people feel like human beings tonight? Then he said How many of you feel like animals? And everyone cheered after the animals part. But the thing is, I cheered after the human being part because I did not know that there was a second part to the question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tigress, robb'd of young, a lioness, Or other interesting beast of prey,  Are similes at hand for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48719]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tigress, robb'd of young, a lioness, Or other interesting beast of prey,  Are similes at hand for the distress   Of ladies who cannot have their own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17926]]></link><description><![CDATA[None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In addition to the costs of the software itself, organizations will encounter other up-front costs, including those resulting from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29662]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition to the costs of the software itself, organizations will encounter other up-front costs, including those resulting from the need for new hardware, administrator and end-user training, configuration and deployment of the new operating system, compatibility-testing, and possible re-engineering of application software,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18152]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, ... But the dance speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, ... But the dance speaks to everyone. ... Otherwise it wouldn't work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53760]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23198]]></link><description><![CDATA[O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9162]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52007]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -Victor Hugo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it is not reason that governs love. [Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53103]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it is not reason that governs love. [Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We couldn't pull a few out but they were all close games and during each one of those losses we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39632]]></link><description><![CDATA[We couldn't pull a few out but they were all close games and during each one of those losses we felt that we could have won the game. Knowing that is a great sign because we can make some small adjustments and hopefully change it for the next game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45214]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26553]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meton: With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle four-cornered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meton: With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle four-cornered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both man and womankind belie their nature When they are not kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both man and womankind belie their nature When they are not kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54645]]></link><description><![CDATA[A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2668]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;  Though every prospect pleases,   And only man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62308]]></link><description><![CDATA[What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;  Though every prospect pleases,   And only man is vile;    In vain with lavish kindness     The gifts of God are strown;      The heathen in his blindness       Bows down to wood and stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  Though natural men, who have induced secondary and figurative consideration, have found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  Though natural men, who have induced secondary and figurative consideration, have found out this... emblematical use of sleep, that it should be a representation of death, God, who wrought and perfected his work, before Nature began, (for Nature was but his Apprentice, to learn in the first seven days, and now is his foreman, and works next under him) God, I say, intended sleep only for the refreshing of man by bodily rest, and not for a figure of death, for he intended not death itself then. But Man having induced death upon himself, God hath taken Man's Creature, death, into his hand, and mended it, and whereas it hath in itself a fearfull form and aspect, so that Man is afraid of his own Creature, God presents it to him, in a familiar, in an assiduous, in an agreeable and acceptable form, in sleep, that so when he awakes from sleep and says to himself, shall I be no otherwise when I am dead, than I was even now, when I was asleep, he may be ashamed of his waking dreams, and of his Melancholique fancying out a horrid and an affrightful figure of that death which is so like sleep. As then we need sleep to live out our threescore and ten years, so we need death, to live that life which we cannot out-live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man does his best, what else is there? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13642]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man does his best, what else is there?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46437]]></link><description><![CDATA[I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These faces in the mirrors Are but the shadows and phantoms of myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14862]]></link><description><![CDATA[These faces in the mirrors Are but the shadows and phantoms of myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52151]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris  Si scelus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris  Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are many counsellors there is safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are many counsellors there is safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48913</guid></item></channel></rss>