<?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[I had started writing the fourth Whit Mosley book, ... I was 40 pages into it, and then Dutton asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37558]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had started writing the fourth Whit Mosley book, ... I was 40 pages into it, and then Dutton asked me if I would consider writing a standalone. The series novel can do a lot to build a loyal readership, but the standalone is sometimes easier for the publisher to market to a broader audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6948]]></link><description><![CDATA["What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58100]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said he, "it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak, without its strength; it has all the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one body that knows more than anybody, and that is everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26218]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one body that knows more than anybody, and that is everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60235]]></link><description><![CDATA[What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. [Fr., La patrie est aux lieux ou l'ame est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. [Fr., La patrie est aux lieux ou l'ame est enchainee.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately it all comes down to money, ultimately it all comes down to lab capacity. One thing we are clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately it all comes down to money, ultimately it all comes down to lab capacity. One thing we are clear about is if that money were to pass (in Congress), thousands of lives will be saved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters-one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45050]]></link><description><![CDATA[When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters-one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It should be a pretty quiet day. We may see a little follow- through due to the strength of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30768]]></link><description><![CDATA[It should be a pretty quiet day. We may see a little follow- through due to the strength of the dollar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32129]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, ye saints, look here and wonder, See the place where Jesus lay;  He has burst His bands asunder; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, ye saints, look here and wonder, See the place where Jesus lay;  He has burst His bands asunder;   He has borne our sins away;    Joyful tidings,     Yes, the Lord has risen to-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where this could hurt the company is in its reputation of not being a great place to work. If left ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where this could hurt the company is in its reputation of not being a great place to work. If left unchecked, it could have an impact on Wal-Mart's image.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5128]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always great to get a little bit of redemption, not against the UNH players, but for myself. It's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42124]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always great to get a little bit of redemption, not against the UNH players, but for myself. It's a really satisfying feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65932]]></link><description><![CDATA[The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time moves in one direction, memory in another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time moves in one direction, memory in another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am by seeming otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27426]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am by seeming otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22501]]></link><description><![CDATA[When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58058]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes your heart beat, ... We love to blow the walls out ... Of all the guys who started ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29293]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes your heart beat, ... We love to blow the walls out ... Of all the guys who started out at Sun, we are one of the few rock 'n' roll groups left. We're survivors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32630]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numbers are like people; torture them enough and they'll tell you anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Numbers are like people; torture them enough and they'll tell you anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15696]]></link><description><![CDATA[A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To all proportioned terms he must dispense And make the sound a picture of the sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57296]]></link><description><![CDATA[To all proportioned terms he must dispense And make the sound a picture of the sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filledwith noble risks, is worth whole years of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22621]]></link><description><![CDATA[One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filledwith noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltrydecorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish watersthrough a marsh, without either honour or observation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17032]]></link><description><![CDATA[You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who excuses himself accuses himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4293]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who excuses himself accuses himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recognize the duty of governments to combat crime, but this is a knee-jerk response -- it shows that China's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41753]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recognize the duty of governments to combat crime, but this is a knee-jerk response -- it shows that China's 'Strike Hard' crime campaign mentality is still prevalent, at least in some parts of the country. There is no evidence that the death penalty deters crime more effectively than other punishments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll come back next week, see if we can lower our scores. We need to have them all have low ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30421]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll come back next week, see if we can lower our scores. We need to have them all have low scores on the same day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53920]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expected them to drive to the hoop. I think it might have been one of those instances where they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37573]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expected them to drive to the hoop. I think it might have been one of those instances where they were young kids and they have not been here before and they tensed up a little and took those 3-pointers. But, you look at that team and they are so well coached. My guys didn't mind being on defense at the end and I think they were confident and comfortable because they had been in that situation before. The experience of being in the championship game before definitely paid off for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19640]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry; "Oh, give us water or we die!"  A voice came o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45071]]></link><description><![CDATA["Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry; "Oh, give us water or we die!"  A voice came o'er the waters far,   "Just drop your bucket where you are."    And then they dipped and drank their fill     Of water fresh from mead and hill;      And then they knew they sailed upon       The broad mouth of the Amazon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in this world without learning is as a beast of the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24545]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in this world without learning is as a beast of the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion, That if by chance it be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15540]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion, That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble,  Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,   Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15540</guid></item></channel></rss>