<?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 first half we did a good job. The third quarter, they got fatigued. This was our second game of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40790]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half we did a good job. The third quarter, they got fatigued. This was our second game of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they can stay where they are and can have air and water, (then) stay where they are. We're just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40484]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they can stay where they are and can have air and water, (then) stay where they are. We're just at the point where we cannot meet the needs of our citizens right now, particularly water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56302]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,  Where it draws ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26715]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,  Where it draws blood so cataplasm so rare,   Collected from all simples that have virtue    Under the moon, can save the thing from death     That is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point      With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,       It may be death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou will scare be a man before thy mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou will scare be a man before thy mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much of human life is lost in waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61076]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much of human life is lost in waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or colleges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or colleges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66172]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46887]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258   Have you stopped seeing great things happen in your life? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258   Have you stopped seeing great things happen in your life? Perhaps you have stopped believing that God can work in a mighty way even in our generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But all's to no end, for the time will not mend Till the King enjoys his own again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54493]]></link><description><![CDATA[But all's to no end, for the time will not mend Till the King enjoys his own again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. [Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4139]]></link><description><![CDATA[A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. [Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are exploring moving beyond silicon-based chips to significantly boost the performance of PCs. Silicon chips will continue to improve, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38301]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are exploring moving beyond silicon-based chips to significantly boost the performance of PCs. Silicon chips will continue to improve, but we need to look ahead decades into the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire; Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow  Of bragging horror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire; Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow  Of bragging horror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abused patience turns to fury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abused patience turns to fury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to be off the bottom by then, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39343]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to be off the bottom by then,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real war will never get in the books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real war will never get in the books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To warm their little loves the birds complain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4230]]></link><description><![CDATA[To warm their little loves the birds complain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14820]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56134]]></link><description><![CDATA[I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale,  And love the high embowed roof, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25062]]></link><description><![CDATA[But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale,  And love the high embowed roof,   With antique pillars massy proof,    And storied windows richly dight;     Casting a dim religious light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The third floor is a total loss. We're worried about the structural integrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The third floor is a total loss. We're worried about the structural integrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not a life, 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5888]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not a life, 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25258]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47261]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whom the Lord liveth he correcteth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48595]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whom the Lord liveth he correcteth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is warme, thinkes all so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49370]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is warme, thinkes all so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think this is following in a long line of great San Francisco nuttiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37066]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this is following in a long line of great San Francisco nuttiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[San Diego customers will pay 10 percent of the cost of this project, and yet 100 percent of the benefits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37895]]></link><description><![CDATA[San Diego customers will pay 10 percent of the cost of this project, and yet 100 percent of the benefits of this project will stay in San Diego.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For hope is but the dream of those that wake. -Matthew Prior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19811]]></link><description><![CDATA[For hope is but the dream of those that wake. -Matthew Prior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61209]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it. -All 's Well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55713]]></link><description><![CDATA['T were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21386]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14757]]></link><description><![CDATA[After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty: for beauty is simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5718]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty: for beauty is simply Reality seen with the eyes of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[laws to allow companies to use their profits gained in the United States to build plants overseas and then file ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35589]]></link><description><![CDATA[laws to allow companies to use their profits gained in the United States to build plants overseas and then file bankruptcy just in the United States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,  Ye trees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,  Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,   Say, is not absence death to those who love?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Christ the Lord is risen to-day," Sons of men and angels say.  Raise your joys and triumphs high;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13153]]></link><description><![CDATA["Christ the Lord is risen to-day," Sons of men and angels say.  Raise your joys and triumphs high;   Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66381</guid></item></channel></rss>