<?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 rich man in his castle, / The poor man at his gate, / God made them, high or lowly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31242]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich man in his castle, / The poor man at his gate, / God made them, high or lowly, / And ordered their estate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trenchant blade Toledo trusty. For want of fighting was grown rusty,  And ate into itself for lack  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trenchant blade Toledo trusty. For want of fighting was grown rusty,  And ate into itself for lack   Of somebody to hew and hack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either team can win on any given night. It depends on who's hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either team can win on any given night. It depends on who's hot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42040]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the fawn just died. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41802]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the fawn just died.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14908]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Latin America is finishing the year on a very strong tone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Latin America is finishing the year on a very strong tone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13687]]></link><description><![CDATA[each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh--  To figure in the Catalogue,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh--  To figure in the Catalogue,   And woo the public eye.    Something I must invent and paint;     But oh my wit is not      Like one of those kind substantives       That answer Who and What?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can definitely relate to a few things in the song. Going mudding on a dirt road, going to football ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37317]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can definitely relate to a few things in the song. Going mudding on a dirt road, going to football games, I did a few of those things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him and mind the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics is written for mathematicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics is written for mathematicians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many of our DREAMS at first seem Impossible, then they seem Improbable, and then when we Summon the Will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61582]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many of our DREAMS at first seem Impossible, then they seem Improbable, and then when we Summon the Will, they soon become Inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people are the ones who are entitled to choose who occupies elected office, not the party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people are the ones who are entitled to choose who occupies elected office, not the party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[as we have said all along, the company is not spinning off AOL, but is focused on returning AOL to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34166]]></link><description><![CDATA[as we have said all along, the company is not spinning off AOL, but is focused on returning AOL to a growth track.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, on the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, on the other hand, laughs with demonic mirth, is possessed of a sardonic wit, and his eyes hold a glint of wicked bemusement. The farthest God, in his popular image, ever strays from sobriety is a beneficent smile. Satan sniggers with fiendish scorn at God, who sits in his ivory tower emitting nary a chuckle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic is in the eye of the logician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is in the eye of the logician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll have to wait and see what the results and lessons learned from the Genesis mishap reviews are to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll have to wait and see what the results and lessons learned from the Genesis mishap reviews are to see how they will affect Mars Sample Return designs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming of a to-morrow, which to-morrow Will be as distant then as 'tis to-day.   - Lope Felix de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming of a to-morrow, which to-morrow Will be as distant then as 'tis to-day.   - Lope Felix de Vega Carpio ("Tome Burguillos"),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If operating systems are weapons, Solaris is a world-war-two German railway gun with a cracked breech block. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57114]]></link><description><![CDATA[If operating systems are weapons, Solaris is a world-war-two German railway gun with a cracked breech block.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm more computer handy now. I've learned a lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm more computer handy now. I've learned a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear  As will disperse itself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear  As will disperse itself through all the veins   That the life-weary taker may fall dead,    And that the trunk may be discharged of breath     As violently as hasty powder fired      Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The European Commission has no legal power to avoid the enacting of some measures on a national level because this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The European Commission has no legal power to avoid the enacting of some measures on a national level because this is not illegal,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24499]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47061]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of mind, when out of view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of mind, when out of view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wee leave more to do when wee dye, then wee have done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wee leave more to do when wee dye, then wee have done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46365]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country is the common parent of all. [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country is the common parent of all. [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50996]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looks like they're going to get a stadium built in L.A., and I'm sure they'll be a team ready ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30872]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looks like they're going to get a stadium built in L.A., and I'm sure they'll be a team ready to move there, too,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a faction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly Katrina eliminated boating activities in that part of the Gulf Coast, but for West Marine, 15 stores were directly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly Katrina eliminated boating activities in that part of the Gulf Coast, but for West Marine, 15 stores were directly affected by the hurricane. Last year, they had 60 stores in the path of major hurricanes, and it affected earnings by about a penny. At least with respect to the hurricanes, it should be less (of an impact) than what happened last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14263]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the time of year finances are on people's mind. And this is the time to think about that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39604]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the time of year finances are on people's mind. And this is the time to think about that and make small changes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send;  He gave to misery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send;  He gave to misery (all he had) a tear,   He gain'd from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46461</guid></item></channel></rss>