<?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[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact. Many grown-ups will obstinately persist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact. Many grown-ups will obstinately persist, if only now and then, in composing small strings of sentences in their heads and achieving at least momentary logic. This probably cannot be prevented, but we have learned how to minimize the consequences by arranging that such grown-ups will be unable to pursue that logic very far. If they were at home in the technology of writing, there's no telling how much social disorder they would cause by thinking things out at length.Our schools have chosen to cut this danger off as close to the root as possible, thus taking measures to preclude not only the birth of thought but its conception. They give the pill to even the youngest children, but just to be on the safe side, they give it to everybody else, too, especially all would-be schoolteachers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9072]]></link><description><![CDATA[English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say. -Garrison Keillor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10548]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day" Yeah, looks like He rushed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963   I do not think I am fanciful in discerning among some of those who most earnestly plead against the Christian social movement a feeling that there is something fundamentally intractable, inscrutable, mysterious about the world, and that no more can be hoped for than an heroic protest in the name of Christ, made in obedience but with no sort of hope that anything can come of it. I hope I am not wrong in saying that there is nothing Christian in such an attitude. It savours of the Paganism that saw behind the world a kind of ironical malice; that made Polycrates throw his ring into the sea, and called the Furies the Kindly Ones, if haply they might be so appeased.   But we stand outside this world of darkness, for we have learnt that all things were created by the eternal Word, who is Christ Jesus. We know, in the Pauline phrase, that it is in Him that the whole universal order of things consists or holds together. Those who have come to know that, know in consequence that they are in their Father's house. It is a big house, and they have begun to explore only a little of it. It has great reaches, and some of them are still shadowy. But it is His house, all of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28054]]></link><description><![CDATA[With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3434]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24675]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American newspapers write about the information economy. In contrast, Europeans speak of an 'information society.' They (the Europeans) believe business ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36667]]></link><description><![CDATA[American newspapers write about the information economy. In contrast, Europeans speak of an 'information society.' They (the Europeans) believe business is there to be taxed, and to support the election of politicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61085]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without music would be a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without music would be a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61356]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53257]]></link><description><![CDATA[You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upon closer inspection many of the allegedly negative implications of rising international trade and investment for jobs, wages and living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Upon closer inspection many of the allegedly negative implications of rising international trade and investment for jobs, wages and living standards are belied by the evidence,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16355]]></link><description><![CDATA[In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the things he has begun to do, and continues to do, is focus on Asia. The stock market ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42105]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the things he has begun to do, and continues to do, is focus on Asia. The stock market is going to be stable, you are not going to be able to have high-powered growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only gift is a portion of thyself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only gift is a portion of thyself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Good are better made by Ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/697]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Good are better made by Ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By many indignities we come to dignities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50973]]></link><description><![CDATA[By many indignities we come to dignities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26010]]></link><description><![CDATA[As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  It is generally true that all that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much virtue in Herbs, little in men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much virtue in Herbs, little in men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14617]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them thence,  So sweet is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9925]]></link><description><![CDATA[When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them thence,  So sweet is zealous contemplation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are no better than you should be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27856]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are no better than you should be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (Israelis) destroyed our homes and our mosques, ... Today it is our turn to destroy theirs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28334]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (Israelis) destroyed our homes and our mosques, ... Today it is our turn to destroy theirs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a long product portfolio transition, we forecast that Bristol-Myers could return to a period of sustained high teens earnings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31186]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a long product portfolio transition, we forecast that Bristol-Myers could return to a period of sustained high teens earnings per share growth in 2007-2010.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were attempting to put on Raimant from naked bodies won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2734]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were attempting to put on Raimant from naked bodies won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams in life are like mirages in the desert where you can never reach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams in life are like mirages in the desert where you can never reach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1721]]></link><description><![CDATA[So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Independence now: and Independence forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Independence now: and Independence forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24634]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   Can we believe that God ever modifies His action in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   Can we believe that God ever modifies His action in response to the suggestions of man? For infinite wisdom does not need telling what is best, and infinite goodness needs no urging to do it. But neither does God need any of those things that are done by finite agents, whether living or inanimate. He could, if He chose, repair our bodies miraculously without food; or give us food without the aid of farmers, bakers, and butchers; or knowledge without the aid of learned men; or convert the heathen without missionaries. Instead, He allows soils and weather and animals and the muscles, minds, and wills of men to cooperate in the execution of His will. "God", says Pascal, "instituted prayer in order to lend to His creatures the dignity of causality." But it is not only prayer; whenever we act at all, He lends us that dignity. It is not really stranger, nor less strange, that my prayers should affect the course of events than that my other actions should do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We experienced a steady increase in 1394-equipped products throughout 2005, and foresee continued expansion this year as developers demand the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34587]]></link><description><![CDATA[We experienced a steady increase in 1394-equipped products throughout 2005, and foresee continued expansion this year as developers demand the proven quality-of-service, high bandwidth, and peer-to-peer features that the 1394 standard delivers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the cups, And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,  The trumpet to the cannoneer without,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the cups, And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,  The trumpet to the cannoneer without,   The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to earth,    'Now the king drinks to Hamlet.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In bed we laugh, in bed we cry; And born in bed, in bed we die;  The near approach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In bed we laugh, in bed we cry; And born in bed, in bed we die;  The near approach a bed may show   Of human bliss to human woe.    [Fr., Theatre des ris et des pleurs     Lit! ou je nais, et ou je meurs,      Tu nous fais voir comment voisins       Sont nos plaisirs et chagrins.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66782]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is constancy of purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is constancy of purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One stroke fells not an oke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49699]]></link><description><![CDATA[One stroke fells not an oke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61549]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. -King Henry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55882]]></link><description><![CDATA[To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55882</guid></item></channel></rss>