<?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 care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness is a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness is a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50080]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science." Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift"... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift"... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic git.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last two years it has been working for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40784]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last two years it has been working for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44977]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say we did well is an understatement. We really dominated the tournament. The champions we had ? not just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42147]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say we did well is an understatement. We really dominated the tournament. The champions we had ? not just from Mount Sinai ? I think are going to represent Division II at the tournament in a very positive fashion. We have some very tough kids and I think we're going to do well in the states.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The march of the human mind is slow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The march of the human mind is slow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50873]]></link><description><![CDATA[In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much of this world is based on illusion, temporariness, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35782]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much of this world is based on illusion, temporariness, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thingwell, you're needed by someone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thingwell, you're needed by someone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51975]]></link><description><![CDATA[So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47385]]></link><description><![CDATA[It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power- power to oppress others. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power- power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what he chooses to do with his life, not by what happens to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. [Lat., Non me pudet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. [Lat., Non me pudet fateri nescire quod nesciam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going down there, they're looking at me like I'm a veteran, even though I'm a rookie. I'm like, 'I'm still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going down there, they're looking at me like I'm a veteran, even though I'm a rookie. I'm like, 'I'm still a rookie!' But it was a good experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none: for salvation, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12799]]></link><description><![CDATA[We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none: for salvation, but it is far off from us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15688]]></link><description><![CDATA[We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Made no more bones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Made no more bones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46214]]></link><description><![CDATA[A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;  And this they knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18460]]></link><description><![CDATA[However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;  And this they knew and felt, at least the one,   The leader of the hand he had undone,--    Who, born for better things, had madly set     His life upon a cast, which linger'd yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/268]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort and remembered with nostalgia ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60306]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort and remembered with nostalgia]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi nimis ex vero traxere,  Acram sui memoriam relinquunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody saw anyone being handcuffed. Officer Gant was moving into a position of cover. He was coming around a planter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody saw anyone being handcuffed. Officer Gant was moving into a position of cover. He was coming around a planter with a tree in it. His view was partially obstructed when the shot was fired. Sgt. Reed was in the arrest process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a fearful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a fearful thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is True Evil in this World, it Lies in the Heart of Mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26240]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is True Evil in this World, it Lies in the Heart of Mankind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It'll take most of the quarter to ramp up production of the iMac, and we're unlikely to be able meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35148]]></link><description><![CDATA[It'll take most of the quarter to ramp up production of the iMac, and we're unlikely to be able meet expected demand for the quarter, ... We certainly hope more than half of the iMac sales this quarter will be the new iMacs. How much over half it goes will depend on supply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself -- and then a couple of more feet, just to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself -- and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19124]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a business decision. We just felt this was the right time for me to come in. There's no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38377]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a business decision. We just felt this was the right time for me to come in. There's no love lost, there's no harm. I'm coming in with an open mind and ready to play, no grudges at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The destruction of the poor is their poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The destruction of the poor is their poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12698</guid></item></channel></rss>