<?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[How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48635]]></link><description><![CDATA[How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:  So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth,   and thy want as an armed man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave.  I see the Rhine in his native ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave.  I see the Rhine in his native wild   Is still a mighty mountain child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   He said to Judas when he betrayed Him: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   He said to Judas when he betrayed Him: "Friend, wherefore art thou come?" Just as if He had said: "Thou hatest me, and art mine enemy, yet I love thee, and am thy friend." ... As though God in human nature were saying: "I am pure, simple goodness, and therefore I cannot will or desire or rejoice in, or do or give anything but goodness. If I am to reward thee for thy evil and wickedness, I must do it with goodness, for I am and have nothing else."   ... Theologia Germanica  June 7, 2002   Some will not believe in miracles because the laws of nature work uniformly. But their uniformity is undisturbed by human operations; the will of man wields, without cancelling, these mighty forces which surround us: and why may not the will of God do the same?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60678]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23632]]></link><description><![CDATA[There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28502]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've heard they've had signs up about Cuero for the last three weeks, ... We're excited about playing this game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38309]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've heard they've had signs up about Cuero for the last three weeks, ... We're excited about playing this game but not to the point where we do not know what we're doing. We just have to go into the game with intensity and remain focused on our goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A manufacturing district . . . sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighborhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A manufacturing district . . . sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighborhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3011]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is your government which is seizing the people of Iraq and killing them. It is your government which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29800]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is your government which is seizing the people of Iraq and killing them. It is your government which is supporting the rotten governments in our countries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jean Harlow [Hollywood's sexy actress] kept calling Margot Asquith by her first name, or kept trying to: she pronounced it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jean Harlow [Hollywood's sexy actress] kept calling Margot Asquith by her first name, or kept trying to: she pronounced it Margot. Finally Margot set her right. `No, no, Jean. The t is silent as in Harlow.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23212]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61553]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life isn't stable. Stability is unnatural. The only stable society is the police state. You can have a free society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life isn't stable. Stability is unnatural. The only stable society is the police state. You can have a free society or you can have a stable society. You can't have both. Take your choice. As for me, I'll choose a free, organic society over a rigid, artificial society any day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playing safe is only playing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playing safe is only playing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36462]]></link><description><![CDATA[In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that looseth his due, gets not thankes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that looseth his due, gets not thankes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the highly competitive consumer electronics industry, and particularly the rising digital television market, it is critical for a company ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42640]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the highly competitive consumer electronics industry, and particularly the rising digital television market, it is critical for a company to get product to market quickly. At the same time, companies must uniquely differentiate consumer electronic products in the highly competitive marketplace. Streamlining the development process and reducing the cost of bringing high quality products to market is essential to the future success of leading CE manufacturers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18227]]></link><description><![CDATA[An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What garlic is to food, insanity is to art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28090]]></link><description><![CDATA[What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63283]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17836]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To create an improved new habitat in a remote area where the prairie dog can thrive without any human interference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38594]]></link><description><![CDATA[To create an improved new habitat in a remote area where the prairie dog can thrive without any human interference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13620]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rally is hard and unfortunately this year there were some accidents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41114]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rally is hard and unfortunately this year there were some accidents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steadypurpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steadypurpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're paid by companies. Having said that, I think the Internet is the best thing that ever happened for consumer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37003]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're paid by companies. Having said that, I think the Internet is the best thing that ever happened for consumer affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One real world is enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62221]]></link><description><![CDATA[One real world is enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9303]]></link><description><![CDATA[An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are like fine wine. They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to the mind and then they turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are like fine wine. They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to the mind and then they turn full-bodied with age until they go sour and vinegary and give you a headache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She lovede Right fro the firste sighte. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25791]]></link><description><![CDATA[She lovede Right fro the firste sighte.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am personally proud to fight for the cause of open government in the state of Texas, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am personally proud to fight for the cause of open government in the state of Texas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This man - what's his name? - the number 10, the small one who doesn't play in the Real Madrid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31029]]></link><description><![CDATA[This man - what's his name? - the number 10, the small one who doesn't play in the Real Madrid first team - said that if Poland beat Azerbaijan 8-0, England should score at least eight and he'd score five of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16825]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8204]]></link><description><![CDATA[No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3234]]></link><description><![CDATA[What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century  Thanksgiving (U.S.)  Here [Mark11:27-33] they discerned a flaw, a heresy; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century  Thanksgiving (U.S.)  Here [Mark11:27-33] they discerned a flaw, a heresy; and they would force Him either to make a fatal claim, or else to moderate His pretensions at their bidding, which would promptly restore their lost influence and leadership. Nor need we shrink from confessing that our Lord was justly open to such reproach, unless He was indeed Divine, unless He was deliberately preparing His followers for that astonishing revelation, soon to come, which threw the Church upon her knees in adoration of her God manifest in flesh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20454]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're not adults. They're kids. There's a lot of reasons why Connecticut shouldn't be so far behind the rest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28203]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're not adults. They're kids. There's a lot of reasons why Connecticut shouldn't be so far behind the rest of the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They work their way down the line and everything is made to the customer's specifications. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31676]]></link><description><![CDATA[They work their way down the line and everything is made to the customer's specifications.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31676</guid></item></channel></rss>