<?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[Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45208]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/361]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love Salt Lake City, but I love you and the life of work before me still better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42242]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love Salt Lake City, but I love you and the life of work before me still better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet. (the Devil and Shakespeare.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1928]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortune.... Ah, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43341]]></link><description><![CDATA['Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortune.... Ah, you can be had.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63693]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55489]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A billion here and a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A billion here and a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10554]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had more opportunities. Maybe it could have been like 63-55. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30589]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had more opportunities. Maybe it could have been like 63-55.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39154]]></link><description><![CDATA[When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold good in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold good in this case, Jesus is undoubtedly an historical person. If he is not an historical person, the only alternative is that there is no such thing as history at all -- it is delirium, nothing else; and a rational being would be better employed in the collection of snuff-boxes. And if history is impossible, so is all other knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21172]]></link><description><![CDATA[My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3176]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems  To lie before us like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems  To lie before us like a land of dreams,   So various, so beautiful, so new,    Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,     Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out through, and his Frailty find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27519]]></link><description><![CDATA[As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out through, and his Frailty find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you must flie, flie well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49523]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you must flie, flie well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6021]]></link><description><![CDATA[All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else fee will  Would not admit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else fee will  Would not admit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5229]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot to take in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29072]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot to take in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15655]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superstition was that disability of any sort was the mark of the devil. The phrases are in languages throughout ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superstition was that disability of any sort was the mark of the devil. The phrases are in languages throughout Europe: the devil's hoof, the devil's horn mark. It reaches back to early Christianity and the middle ages. Where a child was born out of wedlock, the church cooked up the impression that you'd done something sinful, and something dreadful would result. You will still find, particularly in Greece, people doing a little sign when they see a very badly disabled child ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ it needs warding off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50921]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Dune, "Litany Against Fear", 1965.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27662]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   Almighty and most merciful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   Almighty and most merciful Father, by Whose providence my life has been prolonged, and Who has granted me now to begin another year of probation, vouchsafe me such assistance of Thy Holy Spirit, that the continuance of my life may not add to the measure of my guilt, but that I may so repent of the days and years passed in neglect of the duties which Thou hast set before me, in vain thoughts, in sloth, and in folly, that I may apply my heart to true wisdom, by diligence redeem the time lost, and by repentance, obtain pardon, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we that have but span-long life, The thicker must lay on the pleasure;  And since time will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44509]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we that have but span-long life, The thicker must lay on the pleasure;  And since time will not stay,   We'll add night to the day,    Thus, thus we'll fill the measure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he coulddo it so well that no one could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he coulddo it so well that no one could find fault with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22088</guid></item></channel></rss>