<?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[Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24788]]></link><description><![CDATA[The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me someone who has been picked by the Democratic Party, and then all of us can put our dollars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me someone who has been picked by the Democratic Party, and then all of us can put our dollars into that one race,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16672]]></link><description><![CDATA[To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was deeply and fundamentally Irish. But we know that at one point he also became French. He loved France, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29429]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was deeply and fundamentally Irish. But we know that at one point he also became French. He loved France, he chose to live here, he wrote in French. It's why we're here, French and Irish together, to pay tribute to this great man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -and both commonly succeed, and are right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest exceeding poor man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55574]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest exceeding poor man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47977]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47422]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol's a big problem which we need to solve and if that means going to primary schools then we've got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol's a big problem which we need to solve and if that means going to primary schools then we've got to consider it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called, ''Keep tomorrow dark,'' and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) ''Cheat the Prophet.'' The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26969]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1030]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ought to consider the business which occurs in the daily order of Providence as the work which God appoints ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7537]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ought to consider the business which occurs in the daily order of Providence as the work which God appoints me; and I should apply myself to it in a manner worthy of God, namely, with exactness and with tranquility. I ought not to neglect anything or be passionately vehement about anything, for it is dangerous to do the work of the Lord negligently, on the one hand; or, on the other, to appropriate it to ourselves by self-love and false zeal. In this latter case, our actions arise from a principle of self-will: we are eager and anxious for the success, and that under the pretense of seeking the glory of God. O, God, grant me Thy grace to enable me to be faithful in action and resigned in success! My only business is to do Thy will, and to do it as Thy will, not forgetting Thee in the performance of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36826]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sad part is, we voted for him because we believed him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33462]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sad part is, we voted for him because we believed him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get Estates may venture more. Little Boats must keep near Shore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get Estates may venture more. Little Boats must keep near Shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is through dying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is through dying to concern for self that we are born to new life with God and others; in such dying and rebirth, we find that life is lent to be spent; and in such spending of what we are lent, we find there is an infinite supply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be clear. We are about open and full communications. We don't get involved when it comes to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be clear. We are about open and full communications. We don't get involved when it comes to editing scientific information.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is reason gone mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is reason gone mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rain in the Ukrainefalls mainlynot on the plains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rain in the Ukrainefalls mainlynot on the plains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By magic numbers and persuasive sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57290]]></link><description><![CDATA[By magic numbers and persuasive sound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66437]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461  If we would put some slight stress on ourselves at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461  If we would put some slight stress on ourselves at the beginning, then afterwards we should be able to do all things with ease and joy. It is a hard thing to break through a habit, and a yet harder thing to go contrary to our own will. Yet, if thou overcome not slight and easy obstacles, how wilt thou overcome greater ones? Withstand thy will at the beginning, and unlearn an evil habit, lest it lead thee little by little into worse difficulties. Oh, if thou knewest what peace to thyself thy holy life should bring, ... and what joy to others, methinketh thou wouldst be more zealous for spiritual profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9554]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14762]]></link><description><![CDATA[America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Form'd by thy converse, happily steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Form'd by thy converse, happily steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21046]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manny is a strange guy. Outward, he's happy-go-lucky. On the inside, he's got a lot of conspiracy theories going on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manny is a strange guy. Outward, he's happy-go-lucky. On the inside, he's got a lot of conspiracy theories going on. Obviously, Manny might be one of those guys when he's 50 years old he might be in his house with all the blinds shut and looking out and the CIA is after him. You don't know, man. You don't know what's going on his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goal is to continue to have a very broad presence on network television. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goal is to continue to have a very broad presence on network television.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I;  And fast I gather, bit by bit.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I;  And fast I gather, bit by bit.   The scattered drift-wood, bleached and dry,    The wild waves reach their hands for it.     The wild wind raves, the tide runs high,      As up and down the beach we flit,       One little sand-piper and I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that makes him so good and why he does very well at both levels, club and country, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31660]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that makes him so good and why he does very well at both levels, club and country, is the fact he does very well with his opportunities,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24299]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16717]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About 150 families were killed, and hundreds of families were deported from there, and they destroyed the village, they destroyed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29839]]></link><description><![CDATA[About 150 families were killed, and hundreds of families were deported from there, and they destroyed the village, they destroyed the orchards,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to have a professionalism, to do drills that these guys didn't get when they were kids. Simple ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to have a professionalism, to do drills that these guys didn't get when they were kids. Simple things, like how to hold a stick properly and defensive coverage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation: Everyone's illusion of wealth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation: Everyone's illusion of wealth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19362</guid></item></channel></rss>