<?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["Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the "boss" which must be changed?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4758]]></link><description><![CDATA["Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the "boss" which must be changed?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When any volume of this blend comes in contact with one-half of 1 percent (of its own volume) of water, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33795]]></link><description><![CDATA[When any volume of this blend comes in contact with one-half of 1 percent (of its own volume) of water, a condition called 'phase separation' occurs. For 10,000 gallons (of blend), that's 50 gallons of water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The November meeting is a very crucial one. It is a turning point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35724]]></link><description><![CDATA[The November meeting is a very crucial one. It is a turning point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66874]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28079]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means forcorrecting our misperceptions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traffic is like a bad dog. It isn't important to look both ways when crossing the street. It's more important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traffic is like a bad dog. It isn't important to look both ways when crossing the street. It's more important to not show fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most managers were trained to be the thing they mostdespise, bureaucrats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most managers were trained to be the thing they mostdespise, bureaucrats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closest distance between two people is a goodlaugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22729]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closest distance between two people is a goodlaugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light.  The airs that hover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light.  The airs that hover in the summer sky   Are all asleep to-night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust;  His soul is with the saints, I trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust;  His soul is with the saints, I trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61768]]></link><description><![CDATA[By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see these guys on TV all the time and you always wonder if I could play in the majors. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31503]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see these guys on TV all the time and you always wonder if I could play in the majors. You get a chance to do it and are actually doing it. You see they are just like you, that they put their pants on one leg at a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16570]]></link><description><![CDATA[That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52468]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it. [Ger., Wer dem Publicum dient, ist ein armes Thier;  Er qualt sich ab, niemand bedankt sich dafur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And sanguine hope through every storm of life, Shoots her bright beams, and calms the internal strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51854]]></link><description><![CDATA[And sanguine hope through every storm of life, Shoots her bright beams, and calms the internal strife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3258]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most wondrous book! bright candle of the Lord! Star of Eternity! The only star  By which the bark of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most wondrous book! bright candle of the Lord! Star of Eternity! The only star  By which the bark of man could navigate   The sea of life, and gain the coast of bliss    Securely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58945]]></link><description><![CDATA[What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27088]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5226]]></link><description><![CDATA[History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[If something better] is out there, then we'll keep them, ... If not, let's scrap it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28710]]></link><description><![CDATA[[If something better] is out there, then we'll keep them, ... If not, let's scrap it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43105]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51152]]></link><description><![CDATA[He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves -- blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52121]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. [Lat., Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum  Rara ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. [Lat., Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum  Rara juventus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43668]]></link><description><![CDATA[One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. [Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4139]]></link><description><![CDATA[A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. [Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12512]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's wrestling well. Both those kids (he beat) are pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38929]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's wrestling well. Both those kids (he beat) are pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, when you've got guys like Ken Griffey Jr. in our stadium, in our locker room, I've got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35174]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, when you've got guys like Ken Griffey Jr. in our stadium, in our locker room, I've got to talk to them. I'm just seizing the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have no idea what's going on in industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36012]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have no idea what's going on in industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689 Continuing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689 Continuing a short series on Romans 8: Romans 8:14,16. Ephesians 1:13,14. The Witnessing and Sealing Spirit Why should the children of a king   Go mourning all their days? Great Comforter, descend and bring   Some tokens of thy grace. Dost though not dwell in all thy saints,   And seal the heirs of heaven? When wilt thou banish my complaints,   And shew my sins forgiven? Assure my conscience of her part   In the Redeemer's blood; And bear thy witness with my heart,   That I am born of God. Thou are the earnest of his love,   The pledge of joys to come; And thy soft wings, celestial Dove,   Will safe convey me home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and taxes are both certain... but death isn't annual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and taxes are both certain... but death isn't annual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11428</guid></item></channel></rss>