<?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[From the corporate perspective, open source is a means, not an end, and if you confuse those you're going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34574]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the corporate perspective, open source is a means, not an end, and if you confuse those you're going to have problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18904]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56852]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tortured for the Republic. [Lat., Strangulatus pro republica.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tortured for the Republic. [Lat., Strangulatus pro republica.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But now our fate from unmomentous things, may rise like rivers out of little springs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11324]]></link><description><![CDATA[But now our fate from unmomentous things, may rise like rivers out of little springs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fans don't boo nobodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fans don't boo nobodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39413]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are very, very concerned and are far more knowledgeable in this area than the authors appear to be. This is not the last word ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â definitely not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got ships for all different types of people and all different sizes, just like the hotel industry. There's some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42714]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got ships for all different types of people and all different sizes, just like the hotel industry. There's some people that love hotels like Bellagio, and others -- I'm staying in a hotel right now with I think six rooms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5214]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53221]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44255]]></link><description><![CDATA[For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that pure thinking will do more to educate a man than any other activity he can engage in. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that pure thinking will do more to educate a man than any other activity he can engage in. To afford sympathetic entertainment to abstract ideas, to let one idea beget another, and that another, till the mind teems with them; to compare one idea with others, to weigh, to consider, evaluate, approve, respect, correct, refine; to join thought with thought like an architect till a whole edifice has been created within the mind; to travel back in imagination to the beginning of the creation and then to leap swiftly forward to the end of time; to bound upward through illimitable space and downward into the nucleus of an atom; and all this without so much as moving from our chair or opening the eyes--this is to soar above all the lower creation and come near to the angels of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14803]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my 26 years I haven't run into a baby who was rolled over on in bed, or who suffocated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33572]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my 26 years I haven't run into a baby who was rolled over on in bed, or who suffocated next to mom. Possibly it happens, but it happens a lot more often with moms who are bottle-feeding and have babies in cribs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20034]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is knowing how far to go too far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is knowing how far to go too far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to know the past to understand the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45658]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to know the past to understand the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37529]]></link><description><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental consequences to students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59984]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958  We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958  We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62058]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. [Fr., La vertu d'un coeur noble est la marque certaine.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. [Fr., La vertu d'un coeur noble est la marque certaine.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After 30 years of devastation, we are starting from nothing and any move such as this helps the reconstruction of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40051]]></link><description><![CDATA[After 30 years of devastation, we are starting from nothing and any move such as this helps the reconstruction of Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3122]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again  Thinking of thee, still thee, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/153]]></link><description><![CDATA[With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again  Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain,   And memory, like a drop that, night and day,    Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been a high level of interest by the casinos that's only going to intensify after today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38243]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been a high level of interest by the casinos that's only going to intensify after today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolution is not a dinner party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolution is not a dinner party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was one of those things where, if the IT department isn't asking the right questions, then the business side ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32475]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was one of those things where, if the IT department isn't asking the right questions, then the business side is probably not providing the right answers. Then you've got to back step and redesign things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing.   - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing.   - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/88]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/88</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's out there. You can't be quite as selective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31234]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's out there. You can't be quite as selective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power ought to serve as a check to power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power ought to serve as a check to power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another. [Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another. [Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50110</guid></item></channel></rss>