<?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[In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17610]]></link><description><![CDATA[In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet, cable TV, and computer games, account for much more of the trend away from books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37560]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet, cable TV, and computer games, account for much more of the trend away from books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until divers go down and actually examine the rigs and engineers can make estimates on the repair times, we just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until divers go down and actually examine the rigs and engineers can make estimates on the repair times, we just won't know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44095]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35197]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23531]]></link><description><![CDATA[We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where are we going, and why am I in this hand basket? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where are we going, and why am I in this hand basket?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His heart and hand both open and both free; For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows; Yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56071]]></link><description><![CDATA[His heart and hand both open and both free; For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows; Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15896]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19740]]></link><description><![CDATA[What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5951]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49648]]></link><description><![CDATA[No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got the looks that we wanted. The shots didn't fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41771]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got the looks that we wanted. The shots didn't fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46079]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and proneness to credulity. The urge to escape our real self ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52286]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and proneness to credulity. The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. The refusal to see ourselves as we are develops a distaste for facts and cold logic. There is no hope for the frustrated in the actual and the possible. Salvation can come to them only from the miraculous, which seeps through a crack in the iron wall of inexorable reality. They asked to be deceived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cock has great influence on this own dunghill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10051]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cock has great influence on this own dunghill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 Lord, forgive -- That I have dwelt too long on Golgotha, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 Lord, forgive -- That I have dwelt too long on Golgotha, My wracked eyes fixed On Thy poor, tortured human form upon the cross, And have not seen The lilies in Thy dawn-sweet garden bend To anoint Thy risen feet; nor known the ways Thy radiant spirit walks abroad with men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A state has the right to prohibit the killingof dogs and bears whether for film or for other purposes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9188]]></link><description><![CDATA[A state has the right to prohibit the killingof dogs and bears whether for film or for other purposes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43218]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the bitter waves of woe, Beaten and tossed about  By the sullen winds which blow   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57246]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the bitter waves of woe, Beaten and tossed about  By the sullen winds which blow   From the desolate shores of doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned that good-byes will always hurt, pictures will never replace having been there, memories good and bad will bring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1476]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned that good-byes will always hurt, pictures will never replace having been there, memories good and bad will bring tears, and words can never replace feelings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a fresh start for him. He doesn't have to think about the playoff race or anything. Everybody starts at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32568]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a fresh start for him. He doesn't have to think about the playoff race or anything. Everybody starts at zero. It's a great opportunity for us. We're getting older and it might be our last big tournament for our country. I think he's just going to enjoy the Olympic experience and make the most of the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know there's a Derby out there with my name on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43679]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know there's a Derby out there with my name on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51290]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel Brandon still has a chance to be a very good major league player. It was a question of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31651]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel Brandon still has a chance to be a very good major league player. It was a question of timing. His development and that of our team didn't align.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some flowers of Eden ye yet inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some flowers of Eden ye yet inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is a battle, not a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is a battle, not a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outside noisy, inside empty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Outside noisy, inside empty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstances]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians in general are far too eager to urge special exceptions when they hear these charges [of corruption in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians in general are far too eager to urge special exceptions when they hear these charges [of corruption in the church] preferred; far too ready to make out a case for themselves while they admit their application to others; far too ready to think that the cause of God is interested in the suppression of facts. The prophets should have taught us a different lesson. They should have led us to feel that it was a solemn duty, not to conceal, but to bring forward all the evidence which proves, not that one country is better than another, or one portion of the church better than another, but that there is a principle of decay, a tendency to apostasy in all, and that no comfort can come from merely balancing symptoms of good here against symptoms of evil there, no comfort from considering whether we are a little less contentious, a little less idolatrous than our neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44761]]></link><description><![CDATA[As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't understand people who don't like good production. It drives me crazy. We hear all the time from people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't understand people who don't like good production. It drives me crazy. We hear all the time from people who prefer the way our first records sounded, but if we had more money and time back then, we would have made them sound better. I always want our albums to sound more polished, as they say. Polished is the point for what we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'ld charm her with the magic of a switch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'ld charm her with the magic of a switch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much better to get wisdom than gold,    to choose understanding rather than silver! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33436]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much better to get wisdom than gold,    to choose understanding rather than silver!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33436</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[Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When health, affrighted, spreads her rosy wing, And flies with every changing gale of spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18915]]></link><description><![CDATA[When health, affrighted, spreads her rosy wing, And flies with every changing gale of spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a broken nest there are few whole eggs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15159]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15159</guid></item></channel></rss>