<?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[Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53704]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19397]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manny:'Thats wat you do in a herd, you look out for each other.' Sid:'I dont know about you guys but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manny:'Thats wat you do in a herd, you look out for each other.' Sid:'I dont know about you guys but we are the weirdest herd I have ever seen.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15778]]></link><description><![CDATA[This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9008]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. [Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. [Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit in altum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How empty is theory in the presence of fact ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59105]]></link><description><![CDATA[How empty is theory in the presence of fact]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What an alteration of honour has Desperate want made! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51373]]></link><description><![CDATA[What an alteration of honour has Desperate want made!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3293]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. -Troilus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. -Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said I'm so proud of my daughter, and I love you and dad so much. That was the last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39305]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said I'm so proud of my daughter, and I love you and dad so much. That was the last conversation I had. I didn't get to hold him in my arms before he left. It just hurts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46666]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good finds good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good finds good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46665]]></link><description><![CDATA[In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their clubs into shape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1907]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They dance, they revel, and they sing, Till the rude turrets shake and ring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51110]]></link><description><![CDATA[They dance, they revel, and they sing, Till the rude turrets shake and ring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556   One of the catchwords in contemporary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556   One of the catchwords in contemporary Protestantism is that religion must aid man in "becoming human" or even "truly human" -- whatever that means -- and the "model" is Christ. Take the "obvious things" about Christ as listed by a contemporary minister:  He was a popular and controversial preacher; He gathered a group of followers; He spent most of his time with the disinherited; He taught with authority; He never married; He never (so far as we know) held a job; He did not participate in public affairs; He did not have income, property, or an address; He was in bitter and frequent conflict with the religious and political authorities; He seemed to expect that the world would be eminently, radically, and supernaturally transformed; He attacked the traditions and values of his own people; He practically forced the authorities to prosecute and execute him. There is nothing exclusively religious, much less Christian, in this description, which, with a few exceptions, might apply also to Socrates or to "Che" Guevara. I asked many socially oriented ministers why they were Christians at all. Some said through faith, and some said that Christianity gave them courage and the motivation to endure (but so do other beliefs). Some said they hardly knew and that, if another, more acceptable, ideology came along, they would embrace it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These guys are going to be the first people that play in the Wells Fargo Arena in a game that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32790]]></link><description><![CDATA[These guys are going to be the first people that play in the Wells Fargo Arena in a game that matters. It's something they'll remember and take with them the rest of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian clearly understands that Jesus does not reveal all that is signified by the word "God", but only as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian clearly understands that Jesus does not reveal all that is signified by the word "God", but only as much as could be revealed through a perfect human personality living in absolute obedience to God's will. The knowledge of God that men have by virtue of Jesus' revelation is quite enough for men to live by in this life, and to live gloriously and thankfully by, Christians maintain -- the knowledge that God the Creator, the Almighty and Eternal, the Lord of history, is man's Heavenly Father, and that love might well be, and indeed is, the ultimate meaning of human existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could create two Lawns over from the applicants who weren't selected and still have a fantastic community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37741]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could create two Lawns over from the applicants who weren't selected and still have a fantastic community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It pays to plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46664]]></link><description><![CDATA[It pays to plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64383]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever the results of the referendum are ... it is a civilized step that aims to put Iraq on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever the results of the referendum are ... it is a civilized step that aims to put Iraq on the path of true democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15459]]></link><description><![CDATA[You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him gives me a sort of right to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, Advanced a stage or two upon that road  Which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, Advanced a stage or two upon that road  Which you must travel in the steps they trod.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20254]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57074]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46663]]></link><description><![CDATA[When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46133]]></link><description><![CDATA[One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50425]]></link><description><![CDATA[A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, my conscience will be against it, ... I'm asking for a chance to look at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, my conscience will be against it, ... I'm asking for a chance to look at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59149]]></link><description><![CDATA[People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[October's foliage yellows with his cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44901]]></link><description><![CDATA[October's foliage yellows with his cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16870</guid></item></channel></rss>