<?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[The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we are guided, in part, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we are guided, in part, by ideas that are relevant to another world. ... We do many things that are unnecessary, some that are unwise, and a few that are insane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52265]]></link><description><![CDATA[One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes.Children, savages, and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who comes with Summer to this earth And owes to June her day of birth,  With ring of Agate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who comes with Summer to this earth And owes to June her day of birth,  With ring of Agate on her hand,   Can health, wealth, and long life command.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or very foolish imagine otherwise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26151]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity.  The August-born without this stone   'Tis said must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity.  The August-born without this stone   'Tis said must live unloved and lone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is happy agony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is happy agony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.) [Lat., Ne laterum laves.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.) [Lat., Ne laterum laves.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60281]]></link><description><![CDATA[In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of morality to the country's well-being: Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.... And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.... Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the best gain is to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the best gain is to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes me feel good to walk through there and know that some of the things that Negro League players ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36249]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes me feel good to walk through there and know that some of the things that Negro League players played for has been preserved, and people can go in there, and look at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They found holes everywhere. Actually, they didn't have to find holes, because they hit the ball right to us and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35405]]></link><description><![CDATA[They found holes everywhere. Actually, they didn't have to find holes, because they hit the ball right to us and we still missed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3301]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59192]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own sensitivity with the suffering of one's fellow human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within.  So those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within.  So those in this world who would rise and shine   Should seek internal excellence to win.    And though 'tis true that falsehood and despair     Meet in my name, yet bear it still in mind      That where they meet they perish. All is fair       When they are gone and nought remains behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By nature all people are alike, but by education become different ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13376]]></link><description><![CDATA[By nature all people are alike, but by education become different]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  When you hear someone saying unworthy and hard words of you, then it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  When you hear someone saying unworthy and hard words of you, then it is given to you to drink medicine for your soul from the cup of the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great acts are made up of small deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great acts are made up of small deeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am determined to see the job through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am determined to see the job through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this change in the mood on Argentina, investors are buying Brazilian stocks almost indiscriminately as everything here is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35002]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this change in the mood on Argentina, investors are buying Brazilian stocks almost indiscriminately as everything here is so cheap now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach Bruce Weber told me in a meeting that all I have to do is play pretty well. The rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach Bruce Weber told me in a meeting that all I have to do is play pretty well. The rest of the guys are doing well now. It takes a lot of pressure off Dee and especially myself. Luther and Deron and all the assists and rebounds and all the points that were lost, somebody has to make them up. In reality, you can't do all that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is best known in not knowing him. [Ger., Deus scitur melius nesciendo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17675]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is best known in not knowing him. [Ger., Deus scitur melius nesciendo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are all kinds of forms that have to be filled in on the typewriter. I don't know why, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37016]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are all kinds of forms that have to be filled in on the typewriter. I don't know why, but universities are one of the worst for insisting on forms. There is absolutely no sense to it. They insist on putting all the information into a little box.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different....I'd rather be completely fucking mental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54670]]></link><description><![CDATA[If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different....I'd rather be completely fucking mental.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all seem to be doing OK. Seventh-graders are seventh-graders and don't know to put their pants on right, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30353]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all seem to be doing OK. Seventh-graders are seventh-graders and don't know to put their pants on right, but we're taking care of that. It's a challenge for all of us to travel to Bowie only so far as we can't just walk out the back door and start working.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country. [Lat., Servare cives, major ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45813]]></link><description><![CDATA[To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country. [Lat., Servare cives, major est virtus patriae patri.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19366]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good memory is one that can remember the day's blessings and forget the day's troubles ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4306]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good memory is one that can remember the day's blessings and forget the day's troubles]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In seeking to kill my humble self and four of my brothers, the whole world has discovered the extent of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29803]]></link><description><![CDATA[In seeking to kill my humble self and four of my brothers, the whole world has discovered the extent of America's lies and failures, and the extent of its savagery in fighting Islam and Muslims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who first comes to this world below With drear November's fog and snow  Should prize the Topaz' amber hue-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who first comes to this world below With drear November's fog and snow  Should prize the Topaz' amber hue--   Emblem of friends and lovers true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our offense was pretty good. We did look rusty at times but credit Lead-Deadwood's defense for some of that, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our offense was pretty good. We did look rusty at times but credit Lead-Deadwood's defense for some of that, ... We did add some new offense so it is expected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steve is different, wants to be different, wants not to compete (with the same type of products) but to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steve is different, wants to be different, wants not to compete (with the same type of products) but to be different,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We used to say that Memorial Day started the season. Now, Presidents' Day is considered the start of the season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33864]]></link><description><![CDATA[We used to say that Memorial Day started the season. Now, Presidents' Day is considered the start of the season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10483]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science, it doesn't matter if you're wrong, as long as you're not stupid. In business, it doesn't matter if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14182]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science, it doesn't matter if you're wrong, as long as you're not stupid. In business, it doesn't matter if you're stupid, so long as you're not wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22897</guid></item></channel></rss>