<?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[It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46141]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that brings good newes knockes hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dictate of the light says: "Know yourself and what you are." The dark replies, "By all means, but then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45134]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dictate of the light says: "Know yourself and what you are." The dark replies, "By all means, but then become afraid."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine words dresse ill deedes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine words dresse ill deedes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The war for liberty never ends. One day liberty has to be defended against the power of wealth, on another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The war for liberty never ends. One day liberty has to be defended against the power of wealth, on another day against the intrigues of politicians, on another against the dead hand of bureaucrats, on another against the patrioter and the militarist, on another against the profiteer, and then against the hysteria and the passions of the mobs, against obscurantism and stupidity, against the criminal and against the overrighteous. In this campaign every civilized man is enlisted till he dies, and he only has known the full joy of living who somewhere and at some time has struck a decisive blow for the freedom of the human spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War will cease when men refuse to fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27657]]></link><description><![CDATA[War will cease when men refuse to fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those have most power to hurt us, that we love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those have most power to hurt us, that we love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Favour will as surely perish as life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Favour will as surely perish as life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am just elated that this part is over, and I feel the U.S. Supreme Court did justice in recognizing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31343]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am just elated that this part is over, and I feel the U.S. Supreme Court did justice in recognizing the feelings and the needs of people who have terminal illness, to be able to use that process in a compassionate and dignified manner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see with the naked eye unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The play bill which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The play bill which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24180]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres. [Lat., Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud  Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25414]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry, because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The EU executive will] at technical...level find out what the truth is in these stories, ... In that sense, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35209]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The EU executive will] at technical...level find out what the truth is in these stories, ... In that sense, we will check the accuracy of those reports..then further define our stance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas faked a late steal and the pitcher bit by throwing to first. It's actually a play we practiced on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thomas faked a late steal and the pitcher bit by throwing to first. It's actually a play we practiced on for about a half hour the day before the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issues of redistricting using the 2000 Census doesn't seem likely to me to be successful. The political gerrymandering is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issues of redistricting using the 2000 Census doesn't seem likely to me to be successful. The political gerrymandering is going to be the primary issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  Jesus calls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  Jesus calls us not only to repentance, to the "letting go" of the false gods we come to him with; but he goes one more difficult step farther: he also calls us to believe in him alone as the decisive, absolutely unique, once and for all, full revelation of God to man. This is extremely difficult for us, because Jesus was careful to give men no external guarantee that he was, in fact, God in the flesh. Otherwise, he realized, we would not be worshipping him, but would only be worshipping or trusting in the guarantee, whatever it might be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was not born for Courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20031]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was not born for Courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poppy opes her scarlet purse of dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poppy opes her scarlet purse of dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14839]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best ad is a good product. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52663]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best ad is a good product.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - and never knowing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   The Bible is like a telescope. If a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13411]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60112]]></link><description><![CDATA[America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47770]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air. [Fr., Les Anglais, nation trop fiere  S'arrogent l'empire des mers;   Les Francais, nation legere,    S'emparent de celui des airs.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1610]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic and in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire's arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion's cure lives not In these confusions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion's cure lives not In these confusions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adventure is worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adventure is worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big results require big ambitions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big results require big ambitions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42277]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5975]]></link><description><![CDATA[A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are shifting further and further to the higher end of the weight spectrum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41069]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are shifting further and further to the higher end of the weight spectrum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it takes an expert to point out the obvious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it takes an expert to point out the obvious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you'vemolded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you'vemolded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when you'vemade your new skills strong through hard use. All of a sudden these newconcepts stopped churning within you, and a new reality is born: You andthe concepts are one. They have literally become you. You have becomethem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53056]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To create an improved new habitat in a remote area where the prairie dog can thrive without any human interference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38594]]></link><description><![CDATA[To create an improved new habitat in a remote area where the prairie dog can thrive without any human interference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38594</guid></item></channel></rss>