<?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[Do you wonder for what reason, Theodorus, notwithstanding your frequent requests and importunities, I have never presented you with my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you wonder for what reason, Theodorus, notwithstanding your frequent requests and importunities, I have never presented you with my works? I have an excellent reason; it is lest you should present me with yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61401]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If customers are able to reduce their water use, then Lake Decatur may not drop to a more critical level. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39690]]></link><description><![CDATA[If customers are able to reduce their water use, then Lake Decatur may not drop to a more critical level. If the lake level falls another foot, the city will have to implement mandatory water conservation measures, which have not been done since the drought of 1988.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53750]]></link><description><![CDATA[And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where liberty is, there is my country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where liberty is, there is my country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering throughour mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering throughour mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We'reespecially responsible for the one's we put there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26257]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62022]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the nuclear option. Actually, the nuclear option would be shutting down the plant. This is the neutron bomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30162]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the nuclear option. Actually, the nuclear option would be shutting down the plant. This is the neutron bomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15424]]></link><description><![CDATA[A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fine has been imposed because his duties don't allow him to be offering advice to the referee during the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35961]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fine has been imposed because his duties don't allow him to be offering advice to the referee during the course of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64353]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55766]]></link><description><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a series on God and the human condition:  Those old Greek gods are not just poetry and legend. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a series on God and the human condition:  Those old Greek gods are not just poetry and legend. In them the Ancients personified living realities -- intelligence, beauty, love, or lust, which are still at work in our hearts, and which fashion our persons. The language they speak is that of image and myth, which touches the person much more directly than the explicit language of science and the intellectual dialectic of the modern world. It is also the language of the Bible, of the parables of Christ, which the rationalist of today finds it so difficult to understand, of the Word of God which demands of us not a discussion but a personal decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people lose their ties to the land they grow corrupt. Inevitably, they grow corrupt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23980]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people lose their ties to the land they grow corrupt. Inevitably, they grow corrupt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbelief is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unbelief is blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ermine is going in the right direction. Someone needs to go through the park every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ermine is going in the right direction. Someone needs to go through the park every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53415]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22062]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest hurdle is those that have relevant information may be afraid to come forward, ... PC makers may have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39997]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest hurdle is those that have relevant information may be afraid to come forward, ... PC makers may have a lot of useful information, but if they rely on Microsoft, there may be some reluctance to come forward. Hopefully, this will show the government is serious and those companies will go forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, call back yesterday, bid time return! -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55821]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, call back yesterday, bid time return! -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22018]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I will squeeze her until you can hear the pips squeak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy!  Float near me; do not yet depart!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy!  Float near me; do not yet depart!   Dead times revive in thee:    Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art!     A solemn image to my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them. [Fr., C'est une ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them. [Fr., C'est une importune garde, du secret des princes, a qui n'en que faire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387   What art Thou then, my God? What, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387   What art Thou then, my God? What, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all changing; never new, never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the Proud, and they know it not; ever working, ever at rest; still gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and over-spreading; creating, nourishing, and maturing; seeking, yet having all things. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8923]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made my decision to come back when the doctors said I could do anything as long as I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40800]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made my decision to come back when the doctors said I could do anything as long as I don't hit my head. I like track a lot. I knew I wanted to keep going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13810]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's disconcerting, ... These are supposed to be the crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me de la crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me of forces. If their procurement officers were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39736]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's disconcerting, ... These are supposed to be the crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me de la crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me of forces. If their procurement officers were taking kickbacks, it could be happening anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom...refer[s] to a social relationship among people- namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom...refer[s] to a social relationship among people- namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57566]]></link><description><![CDATA[I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I do hate him as I hate the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18856]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I do hate him as I hate the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18856</guid></item></channel></rss>