<?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[What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46260]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To all proportioned terms he must dispense And make the sound a picture of the sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57296]]></link><description><![CDATA[To all proportioned terms he must dispense And make the sound a picture of the sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is a perennial spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is a perennial spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go ahead, make my day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go ahead, make my day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944   The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944   The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9863]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. [A morning sun and a wine-bred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13781]]></link><description><![CDATA[A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. [A morning sun and a wine-bred child and a Latin-bred woman seldom end well.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21679]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civil servant doesn't make jokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64200]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civil servant doesn't make jokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56290]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did not yell anything, he did not say anything, he just ran his truck over the crosses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31426]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did not yell anything, he did not say anything, he just ran his truck over the crosses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be closing...That doesn’t mean you’re always closing the deal, but it does mean that you need to be always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be closing...That doesn’t mean you’re always closing the deal, but it does mean that you need to be always closing on the next step in the process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in the contemplation of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in the contemplation of the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But above all things truth is victor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59799]]></link><description><![CDATA[But above all things truth is victor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show,  Not learning more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26472]]></link><description><![CDATA[What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show,  Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach,   Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet    Builds in the weather on the outward wall,     Even in the force and road of casualty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same lifeless dogmatism will commonly benumb them both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52053]]></link><description><![CDATA[When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same lifeless dogmatism will commonly benumb them both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4327]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never lie to someone who trusts you, and never trust someone who lies to you!! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never lie to someone who trusts you, and never trust someone who lies to you!!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love those who yearn for the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65921]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love those who yearn for the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45721]]></link><description><![CDATA[For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a three run error on the umpire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32147]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a three run error on the umpire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remedy for wrongs is to forget them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53274]]></link><description><![CDATA[But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. -Sir Hugh Walpoe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, lay thy head upon my breast, And I will kiss thee into rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, lay thy head upon my breast, And I will kiss thee into rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hard gives more then he that hath nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hard gives more then he that hath nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from the speedway to sit down to try to work out some of the issues. That's where we're at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46380]]></link><description><![CDATA[By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's not destroyed by Time's devouring hand? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59309]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's not destroyed by Time's devouring hand?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problems -- the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6345]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problems -- the meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She didn't seem to get flustered or frustrated about the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42013]]></link><description><![CDATA[She didn't seem to get flustered or frustrated about the situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just don't know how you make people get along, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just don't know how you make people get along,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class morality all the time . . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43108]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class morality all the time . . . . What is middle-class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief  That thou her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief  That thou her maid art far more fair than she.   Be not her maid, since she is envious.    Her vestal livery is but sick and green,     And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This storm is far from over. We can't take anything for granted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38114]]></link><description><![CDATA[This storm is far from over. We can't take anything for granted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19659]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19659</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[We're still working on a number that would give us a high degree of confidence in our sample, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41840]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still working on a number that would give us a high degree of confidence in our sample, but a minimum would probably be 1,000 samples across the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're moving sound closer and closer. It's really increasing pressure on the ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31794]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're moving sound closer and closer. It's really increasing pressure on the ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19355]]></link><description><![CDATA[History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19355</guid></item></channel></rss>