<?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[We want to give her a chance. She needs to tell us where she really lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29666]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to give her a chance. She needs to tell us where she really lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39267]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52214]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A SOBA is a client/server application done right, ... It is a business application that is centered on Web services ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31351]]></link><description><![CDATA[A SOBA is a client/server application done right, ... It is a business application that is centered on Web services standards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, lay thy head upon my breast, And I will kiss thee into rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, lay thy head upon my breast, And I will kiss thee into rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12353]]></link><description><![CDATA[To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in beliefs, ideas and possessions. The sterile radical, too, is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burly, dozing humblebee, Where thou art is clime for me.  Let them sail for Porto Rique,   Far-off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burly, dozing humblebee, Where thou art is clime for me.  Let them sail for Porto Rique,   Far-off heats through seas to seek.    I will follow thee alone,     Thou animated torrid-zone!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you're going to be thinking tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you're going to be thinking tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of the few; and number not voices, but weigh them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22012]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fascism is a religious concept ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fascism is a religious concept]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Automotive demand carried the market through the recession years but must now cope with a modest downturn in late 2005 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Automotive demand carried the market through the recession years but must now cope with a modest downturn in late 2005 and across 2006. Thus, special quality bars will continue to see softer demand from this key market in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punch line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punch line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are really very happy to have them come back year after year. The public really enjoys them. They normally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39302]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are really very happy to have them come back year after year. The public really enjoys them. They normally bring 20 to 30 paintings every year. It's become expected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just hope it wasn't a one-off and that we're going to tail off again after this. Everything seemed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just hope it wasn't a one-off and that we're going to tail off again after this. Everything seemed to work well. I hope it lasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  Love ... is very noticeable as fervour and devotion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  Love ... is very noticeable as fervour and devotion and jubilation, and is yet not always the best thing; for sometimes it is not from love but is caused by nature that one has such taste and sweetness; or it may be a heavenly impression or it may be produced by the senses, and those who have most of this are not always the best. For even if it should be from God, our Lord gives this to such men in order to attract and charm them, and also to detach them from others. But if these same people later grow in love, they may not have so many feelings, and then it will become clear that they have love, if they remain wholly faithful to God without any such support.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60081]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot expect people to take seriously our belief in objective truth if, in our practice, we indicate only a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6204]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot expect people to take seriously our belief in objective truth if, in our practice, we indicate only a quantitative difference between all men who are in ecclesiastical structures or who use theological language. I do not mean that we should not have open dialogue with men; my words and practice emphasize that I believe love demands it. But I do mean that we should not give the impression in our practice that, just because they are expressed in traditional Christian terminology, all religious concepts are on a graduated, quantitative spectrum -- that, in regard to central doctrine, no chasm exists between right and wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's scary, but we're holding our own right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35409]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's scary, but we're holding our own right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dialectic is neither fiction or mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26487]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dialectic is neither fiction or mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and formal logic bear a relationship similar to that between higher and lower mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're establishing an e-mail list to let people know about the events. We're going to use the list to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34456]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're establishing an e-mail list to let people know about the events. We're going to use the list to let people know our First Friday happenings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Annuit coepis. [He (God) approves our undertakings.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Annuit coepis. [He (God) approves our undertakings.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like Christmas. Everything is real, but not as it seems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like Christmas. Everything is real, but not as it seems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4040]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65941]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44155]]></link><description><![CDATA[People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is obviously a direct driver of inflation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34923]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is obviously a direct driver of inflation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20255]]></link><description><![CDATA[It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20692]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health, And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health, And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53972]]></link><description><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48432]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you see a person, and you wonder why you don't spend more time with that person, because they're like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you see a person, and you wonder why you don't spend more time with that person, because they're like one of your favorite people. And then they say something and you remember why you don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings,  Nor as she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings,  Nor as she turns the giddy wheel around,   Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're fine to use. Just be sensible about the volume and amount of time you listen. If the person next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31791]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're fine to use. Just be sensible about the volume and amount of time you listen. If the person next to you can hear your music, it's too loud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11756]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said, "I helped skin Bob.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a man of the people, so this is a wonderful tribute; he loved America and it's fitting that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38044]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a man of the people, so this is a wonderful tribute; he loved America and it's fitting that the country recognizes him as a national treasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends, He hurts me most who lavishly commends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends, He hurts me most who lavishly commends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1021]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Beryl Coronet".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1021</guid></item></channel></rss>