<?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[When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15799]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56875]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66269]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ring flies a long way because it's so thin, ... It's sailed as far as 1,333 feet, a Guinness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ring flies a long way because it's so thin, ... It's sailed as far as 1,333 feet, a Guinness world record.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned Things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statistician, psychologist, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. the psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20972]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In July 2004 we made two undercover purchases of crack cocaine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29251]]></link><description><![CDATA[In July 2004 we made two undercover purchases of crack cocaine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63302]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fifty-acre parcels are generally not that available in Silicon Valley. You can't buy 50 acres, you have to piece it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fifty-acre parcels are generally not that available in Silicon Valley. You can't buy 50 acres, you have to piece it together. So if you're Apple and you're going to go through the trouble of putting it together, you might as well pick an area you want to stay in, as opposed to one further away where you might save money but it will be just as difficult to assemble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5435</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[Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart loves, but moods have no loyalty. Moods should be heard but never danced to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart loves, but moods have no loyalty. Moods should be heard but never danced to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we thought it would improve our relationship, we would get married tomorrow, but as it is, nearly 7 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30062]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we thought it would improve our relationship, we would get married tomorrow, but as it is, nearly 7 years after we got engaged, we are content to wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing. -King Henry VIII. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12789]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve, When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60001]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve, When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!   - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47943]]></link><description><![CDATA[So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!   - Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew,  For we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew,  For we're booming down on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail,   We're sagging south on the Long Trail, the trail that is always new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All we're saying is, let small business have a choice. Right now they barely have one or two choices in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29056]]></link><description><![CDATA[All we're saying is, let small business have a choice. Right now they barely have one or two choices in the small-group market. Let employers choose what they think is best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that there is no reason to doubt but that the blessed spirits above, who continually "behold the face ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that there is no reason to doubt but that the blessed spirits above, who continually "behold the face of their Father", are still writing after this copy which is here propounded to us, and endeavouring to be "perfect as their Father which is in heaven is perfect", still aspiring after a nearer and more perfect resemblance of God, whose goodness and mercy is far beyond and before that of any creature, that they may be for ever approaching nearer to it and yet never overtake it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is first in time has the prior right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50551]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is first in time has the prior right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given this is a swan song for Greenspan, I think it's going to be one more of these global topics. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given this is a swan song for Greenspan, I think it's going to be one more of these global topics. There will be very little if anything that will give us any insight into monetary policy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sinning is the best part of repentance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sinning is the best part of repentance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It fooled him, how many other people are getting fooled? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35082]]></link><description><![CDATA[It fooled him, how many other people are getting fooled?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. •Anonymous    Many an opportunity is lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. •Anonymous    Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [Lat., Discite quam parvo liceat producere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [Lat., Discite quam parvo liceat producere vitam,  Et quantum natura petat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  First in a series on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  First in a series on God and the human condition:  Suffering is sometimes a mystery. We must affirm both the mystery and God. The paradox remained, but now, at least, Job knew that it belonged there -- that it is built into the moral and physical orders, and into the very nature of God as He has permitted us humans to perceive Him. In a world where the universal principle is cause/effect, the book of Job reminds us that the principle is a reflection of the mysterious, self-revealing God. It is subsumed under Him, however, and He cannot be subsumed under it. The God-speeches remind us that a Person, not a principle, is Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year, the offense, we weren't able to put up that many points. This year we have weapons like Derrick ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year, the offense, we weren't able to put up that many points. This year we have weapons like Derrick Williams, Justin King, Michael Robinson at quarterback. I'm anxious to see how that turns out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57841]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our batting let us down but we need to come back and do better in the remaining matches. India are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our batting let us down but we need to come back and do better in the remaining matches. India are playing very well at the moment but we need to encourage each other to do better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54812]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58014]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shun security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shun security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33287</guid></item></channel></rss>