<?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[The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross   When scientists are honest, as most of them are, they are well aware ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross   When scientists are honest, as most of them are, they are well aware of the fact that their competence in science does not give them a clue to the problem of how their science should be used in the service of man. The sensitive visitor to the mesas of Los Alamos is almost sure to meditate on the experience of that gifted man, Klaus Fuchs. Though his work in the laboratories was outstanding, his decision concerning the use of what he knew was disastrous. What if, in addition to his scientific competence, the younger Fuchs had shared something of the Christian conviction of his father, Emil Fuchs? Much of the subsequent history of our earth might then have been different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40472]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9249]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51583]]></link><description><![CDATA[All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's getting better every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40723]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's getting better every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils,  Trapped in the spectrum of a dying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8765]]></link><description><![CDATA[No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils,  Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style:   A village like an instinct left to rust,    Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most acute social priority is for individuals to clean up their own mental and emotional messes. -Doc Childre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most acute social priority is for individuals to clean up their own mental and emotional messes. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity;  My riches are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity;  My riches are these poor habiliments,   Of which if you should here disfurnish me,    You take the sum and substance that I have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, which put a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:  But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We moved in the winter, so it was really bad. It was really depressing for me. It was really cold, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39358]]></link><description><![CDATA[We moved in the winter, so it was really bad. It was really depressing for me. It was really cold, and every day it was snowing. Joe went to school, and I had to stay in the house all the time, watching the snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42474]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19646]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm here now in Chicago doing my own show, and I think Golden Girls is shown three hours a day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm here now in Chicago doing my own show, and I think Golden Girls is shown three hours a day here, and everybody loves it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25193]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened. -Robert C. Murphy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a weakening trend showing up in the numbers since June. It does appear over the last few months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29642]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a weakening trend showing up in the numbers since June. It does appear over the last few months that we're hitting a soft patch of our own. I'm sure that's discouraging to those looking for a job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46581]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest qualities of character… must be earned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest qualities of character… must be earned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48901]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune. [Lat., In omni adversitate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57238]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune. [Lat., In omni adversitate fortunae, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise: At least be more than I was; and be sure  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise: At least be more than I was; and be sure  You credit anything the light gives life to   Before a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66511]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57574]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29957]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask of specific progress, I'd say we are committed to remain politically engaged, they had be prepared to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31257]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask of specific progress, I'd say we are committed to remain politically engaged, they had be prepared to add political impetus required to reach an agreement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make the most of the hemp seed and sow it everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make the most of the hemp seed and sow it everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58474]]></link><description><![CDATA[To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9734]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't know a woman until you have a letter from her ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27056]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't know a woman until you have a letter from her]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the very essence of democracy.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the very essence of democracy.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whistle, and she'll come to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whistle, and she'll come to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51586]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; And each brave foe was in his soul a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That good diffused may more abundant grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17851]]></link><description><![CDATA[That good diffused may more abundant grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes men are scared of me. You become a kind of an icon on television, and people are a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes men are scared of me. You become a kind of an icon on television, and people are a little bit unsure, careful. It's funny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46057</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[If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64122]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58217]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is holding up as well as you could imagine. But I can't discuss anything else until the board meeting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36036]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is holding up as well as you could imagine. But I can't discuss anything else until the board meeting tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16221]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16221</guid></item></channel></rss>