<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea hath fish for every man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16058]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea hath fish for every man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20009]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me. But it can keep him from lynching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47629]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me. But it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is just during the two week spring recess...[when Congress resumes] he's going to push for the bill and hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31773]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is just during the two week spring recess...[when Congress resumes] he's going to push for the bill and hope that the bill will come up for a vote, and then he'll be working toward that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the devil with those who published before us. [Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24537]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the devil with those who published before us. [Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you can imagine is real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you can imagine is real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is the art of concealing your sources ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is the art of concealing your sources]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madame Blaize,  Who never wanted a good word--   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madame Blaize,  Who never wanted a good word--   From those who spoke her praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is . . . a lot of crossed off names in an address book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is . . . a lot of crossed off names in an address book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As he cobbled and hammered from morning till dark, With the footgear to mend on his knees,  Stitching patches, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56210]]></link><description><![CDATA[As he cobbled and hammered from morning till dark, With the footgear to mend on his knees,  Stitching patches, or pegging on soles as he sang,   Out of tune, ancient catches and glees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14300]]></link><description><![CDATA[States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52718]]></link><description><![CDATA[More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a major victory in the war against caviar criminals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37864]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a major victory in the war against caviar criminals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274   In addition to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274   In addition to the general situations in which men find themselves today, there are those things in personal life which have always tested faith: the inexplicable tragedies and injustices; the suffering of innocent people, especially of children; the seeming uselessness of prayer, and so forth. It is surely life itself that makes against belief in most cases. It is the contradiction in real life between any image of God as good -- whether God is "above", "beneath", or "within" -- that makes men atheists. Yet how few books and how few sermons touch on this basic problem! Our theological libraries are crammed with books devoted to every aspect of textual and higher criticism of the Bible; but of genuine theological thinking about the things which drive religion from men's hearts, there is appallingly little to be found. The archaeology of Christian origins seems largely to have replaced genuine theology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872   Infant Baptism... has been a witness for the Son of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872   Infant Baptism... has been a witness for the Son of Man and the universality of His Kingdom, like no other. It has taught parents that to bring children into the world is not a horrible crime. It has led them to see Christ and His redemption of humanity through all the mists of our teachings and our qualifications. It has explained the nature of His Kingdom to the hearts even of the poorest. Christ has preached at the fonts, when we have been darkening counsel in the pulpits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23933]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is what works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is what works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17406]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60135]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All swol'n with chafing, down Adonis sits, Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast;  And now the happy season once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59491]]></link><description><![CDATA[All swol'n with chafing, down Adonis sits, Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast;  And now the happy season once more fits   That lovesick Love by pleading may be blest;    For lovers say the heart hath treble wrong     When it is barred the aidance of the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In other words, business travelers are behaving like leisure travelers to qualify for a better price. That puts the airlines, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42418]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In other words, business travelers are behaving like leisure travelers to qualify for a better price. That puts the airlines, particularly the ailing network airlines, in a tight spot.] Profits are elusive, ... Airlines either need to raise fares, or the price of oil has to come down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think doing everything just right is not as important a message these days. It's not as salient a message ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28981]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think doing everything just right is not as important a message these days. It's not as salient a message as doing everything with style and panache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to set boundaries and say no. The biggest challenge with part-time work is that the work creeps to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37764]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to set boundaries and say no. The biggest challenge with part-time work is that the work creeps to full time. Nobody else is going to manage that for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11625]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23914]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every monarch is subject to a mightier one. [Lat., Omnes sub regno graviore regnum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every monarch is subject to a mightier one. [Lat., Omnes sub regno graviore regnum est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is just another muscle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22628]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is just another muscle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65005]]></link><description><![CDATA[The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The SEC has been closer to the Mountain West, Conference USA, and the Big East than it has been to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37652]]></link><description><![CDATA[The SEC has been closer to the Mountain West, Conference USA, and the Big East than it has been to either the Big 12 or the Pac-10, ... Arizona State has posted more non-conference wins versus the current BCS Top 25 (No. 9 Iowa and No. 25 UTEP) by itself than the entire SEC.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I definitely can see him playing in the big leagues. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I definitely can see him playing in the big leagues. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any alleged Christianity which fails to express itself in cheerfulness, at some point, is clearly spurious. The Christian is cheerful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any alleged Christianity which fails to express itself in cheerfulness, at some point, is clearly spurious. The Christian is cheerful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sovereignty, are never ultimate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You go where you would normally go in your place of business, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31558]]></link><description><![CDATA[You go where you would normally go in your place of business,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne    Certain brief sentences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne    Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. •Jean Rostand    I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was like, here comes a joke. Here's the joke. I just told a joke! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35155]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was like, here comes a joke. Here's the joke. I just told a joke!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having that guy in the lineup makes a difference. He's going to scare some people. I was definitely surprised by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having that guy in the lineup makes a difference. He's going to scare some people. I was definitely surprised by the double. He missed so much time and on his first at-bat ? boom! He's a special player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10896</guid></item></channel></rss>