<?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 travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65240]]></link><description><![CDATA[One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66680]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living from hand to mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living from hand to mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45800]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear  The living degradation we may know   If we do dread death for a sacred cause?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And with unwearied fingers drawing out The lines of life, from living knowledge hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58025]]></link><description><![CDATA[And with unwearied fingers drawing out The lines of life, from living knowledge hid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62671]]></link><description><![CDATA[What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go far -- too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go far -- too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain. The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom.(New coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets, when asked how he pronounced his name, 1966) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tom.(New coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets, when asked how he pronounced his name, 1966)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the past 15 years or so, ... there has been a shift of some academics who view McCarthy as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the past 15 years or so, ... there has been a shift of some academics who view McCarthy as crude but his cause correct that communists needed to be weeded out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33231]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own environmental department, for example, what do you do? Do you spit in its eye, or do you make sure that what they do actually has some substance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51412]]></link><description><![CDATA[So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep.  Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56161]]></link><description><![CDATA[She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep.  Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;   She guards them from the steep.    She feeds them on the fragrant height,     And folds them in for sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now they'll say that the public chamber is the expression of civil society -- and all the rest of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now they'll say that the public chamber is the expression of civil society -- and all the rest of us are marginal. Gradually people will forget that we exist. And to make that happen more quickly, that completely senseless bill has been passed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20240]]></link><description><![CDATA[How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âit's that the area experiencing intense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30385]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âit's that the area experiencing intense shaking was much, much greater. We don't know if the next rupture will look like 1906 earthquake, but we know that many of the same areas hit hard in 1906, like San Francisco, Santa Rosa, and the Santa Cruz mountains will be hit hard again in the next large earthquake on the San Andreas Fault .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35738]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just can't get there. Maybe they see something we don't see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31191]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just can't get there. Maybe they see something we don't see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think I could have called my career complete without racing in IROC. You always compete against the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think I could have called my career complete without racing in IROC. You always compete against the best of the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All places are distant from heaven alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19083]]></link><description><![CDATA[All places are distant from heaven alike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I'm not enjoying it, I will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I'm not enjoying it, I will leave football.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15548]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it stays at this level for about six months or so, you will see the prices of other products ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34735]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it stays at this level for about six months or so, you will see the prices of other products and services increase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. -Henry David Thoreau.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19293]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41190]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? It seems purposeless. Our question of the why of evil assumes the view that the world has a purpose, and what we want to know is how suffering fits into and advances this purpose. The modern view is that suffering has no purpose because nothing that happens has any purpose: the world is run by causes, not by purposes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the hours you put in, but what youput into the hours thatcount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22610]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the hours you put in, but what youput into the hours thatcount.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change afact, then you are residing on another planet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21487]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change afact, then you are residing on another planet with a different realitysystem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaulteth not itself, is not puffed up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaulteth not itself, is not puffed up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The celebration of unbounded individualism means, beyond some point, the acceptance of force- either private (crime, riot, vigilanteism) or public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The celebration of unbounded individualism means, beyond some point, the acceptance of force- either private (crime, riot, vigilanteism) or public (authoritarianism).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues  With a new colour as it gasps away,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues  With a new colour as it gasps away,   The last still loveliest, till--'tis gone--and all is gray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to keep the speed and stability of a longer ski but make it a lot more maneuverable. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to keep the speed and stability of a longer ski but make it a lot more maneuverable. It's just all about the surface area. All of our skis are shorter than most, but they have the same surface area -- and that's what determines the speed and stability, the actual amount of ski on the snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10098]]></link><description><![CDATA[His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die?  Here's thirty thousand Cornish men   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45782]]></link><description><![CDATA[And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die?  Here's thirty thousand Cornish men   Will know the reason why!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45782</guid></item></channel></rss>