<?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[Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Below the current, the economy has been improving far more than the market reality would indicate. And all things considered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Below the current, the economy has been improving far more than the market reality would indicate. And all things considered, the market is really behaving quite well today [Thursday]. But there's still tremendous anxiety; the market is held hostage to individual corporate news and accountability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every reformation must have its victims. You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every reformation must have its victims. You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2967]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have Dick to thank for adding the word 'regionalism' to our vocabulary. During his 12-year tenure with the Chamber, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have Dick to thank for adding the word 'regionalism' to our vocabulary. During his 12-year tenure with the Chamber, he has been a powerful voice for regional cooperation and collaboration with outstanding results. His accomplishments are numerous, but this will almost certainly be his lasting legacy to our region.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64511]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23710]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly, it was apparent to me that RLX was likely to exploit the confidential and proprietary information and trade secrets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly, it was apparent to me that RLX was likely to exploit the confidential and proprietary information and trade secrets of Compaq that RLX acquired by its hiring of key Compaq personnel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/189]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58963]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63815]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we see a speck in a brother's eye, we must first see if there is a log in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6745]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we see a speck in a brother's eye, we must first see if there is a log in our own eye; perhaps that speck in our brother's eye is only a reflection of the beam in our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8857]]></link><description><![CDATA[If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57548]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet reluctant amorous delay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet reluctant amorous delay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't think he would play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't think he would play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54629]]></link><description><![CDATA[We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[some people who have same-sex attraction have changedand instead have successfully actualized their heterosexual potential and are now ex-gay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35614]]></link><description><![CDATA[some people who have same-sex attraction have changedand instead have successfully actualized their heterosexual potential and are now ex-gay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His breast with wounds unnumber'd riven, His back to earth, his face to heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57142]]></link><description><![CDATA[His breast with wounds unnumber'd riven, His back to earth, his face to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1259]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our graphs are based on starting with chaos ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â meaning we have a blast of news, and we say to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our graphs are based on starting with chaos ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â meaning we have a blast of news, and we say to our algorithms, find some order in this. We're creating these from scratch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20110]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's allowed me to really learn a lot about fund-raising throughout the metropolitan area, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39542]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's allowed me to really learn a lot about fund-raising throughout the metropolitan area,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63940]]></link><description><![CDATA[No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never any peace for those who resist God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7786]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never any peace for those who resist God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a great relief. The guys stayed in the program and stood through my hard times. There is a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39669]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a great relief. The guys stayed in the program and stood through my hard times. There is a lot of satisfaction knowing that we made it through the hard times without me as head coach and that everything is OK.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56916]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate the eye before the eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  If, when God sends judgments upon others, we do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  If, when God sends judgments upon others, we do not take warning and example by them; if instead of reflecting upon ourselves and questioning our ways we fall to censuring others; if we will pervert the meaning of God's providences and will not understand the design and intention of them; then we leave God no other way to awaken us to a consideration of our evil ways but by pouring down his wrath upon our heads, so that he may convince us that we are sinners by the same argument from whence we have concluded others to be so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abilene is a good team, and they beat us. We made some mistakes, and they took advantage of them like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abilene is a good team, and they beat us. We made some mistakes, and they took advantage of them like a good team will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby,  Knowing that with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby,  Knowing that with the shadow of his wings   He can at pleasure stint their melody:    Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56614]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44141]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44141</guid></item></channel></rss>