<?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[One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66753]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people\'s minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5125]]></link><description><![CDATA[And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee goes not out of his way, that goes to a good Inne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee goes not out of his way, that goes to a good Inne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doth the moon care for the barking of a dog? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doth the moon care for the barking of a dog?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lost it in the sun!(after fumbling a grounder.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lost it in the sun!(after fumbling a grounder.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65675]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some rougher realities about being a writer in Montana, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40107]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some rougher realities about being a writer in Montana,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51809]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors are being cautiously optimistic. There's a desire to put money back into the market based on a feeling that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors are being cautiously optimistic. There's a desire to put money back into the market based on a feeling that the worst of the economy may be behind us, ... However, there's not enough evidence of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters to Young Men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60781]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is the shell of the soul, and dress the husk of that shell; but the husk often tells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is the shell of the soul, and dress the husk of that shell; but the husk often tells what the kernel is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52135]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Production is the only answer to inflation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Production is the only answer to inflation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9260]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there 's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44108]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory; a matter of staying power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory; a matter of staying power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will file a legal complaint against all of those people behind this conference, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39787]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will file a legal complaint against all of those people behind this conference,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66028]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While I plan, and plan, my hair Is gray before I know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51725]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I plan, and plan, my hair Is gray before I know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crescit eundo [It grows as it goes] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crescit eundo [It grows as it goes]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is the parent of all psychology ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is the parent of all psychology]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46585]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17959]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's part of our culture and firm belief that smart, talented local bankers make the best decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's part of our culture and firm belief that smart, talented local bankers make the best decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15769]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26604]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, but they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, but they have a pluck and a spirit that makes you fall in love with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. - Unkempt Thoughts, 1962. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. - Unkempt Thoughts, 1962.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is fear of one's self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is fear of one's self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Syllables govern the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Syllables govern the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had them lay on the ground until the sheriff's department got there, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38671]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had them lay on the ground until the sheriff's department got there,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that Spanish people are showing again their strength, their solidarity, and the common effort in order to overcome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39085]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that Spanish people are showing again their strength, their solidarity, and the common effort in order to overcome the atrocities of pain and terrorism,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:   A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:   A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever excused his way to success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14467]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever excused his way to success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We needed defensive stops. But then again, to get on the board, you need to execute and move the ball ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29066]]></link><description><![CDATA[We needed defensive stops. But then again, to get on the board, you need to execute and move the ball around and run our motion like we usually do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29066</guid></item></channel></rss>