<?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[There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54793]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows little who tells his wife all he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61569]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows little who tells his wife all he knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Move him into the sun —Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always it woke him, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Move him into the sun —Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always it woke him, even in France,Until this morning and this snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a blow-out quarter, they did an incredible job. They blew away the consensus (forecast), and first-quarter guidance looks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42675]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a blow-out quarter, they did an incredible job. They blew away the consensus (forecast), and first-quarter guidance looks good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's clear from extensive research is that most people do not get digestive changes from eating Olean snacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36052]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's clear from extensive research is that most people do not get digestive changes from eating Olean snacks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else  But what your jealousies awake, I tell you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23171]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else  But what your jealousies awake, I tell you   'Tis rigor and not law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blind person, in reality, is the only person who can truly see. They know first hand what true love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25906]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blind person, in reality, is the only person who can truly see. They know first hand what true love is, without the use of eyes, but with the heart. And that is the truest form of love, and they harness it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56904]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49374]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this particular! Some of them speak not. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this particular! Some of them speak not. They are books in which not a line is written, save perhaps a date.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young Timothy Learnt sin to fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young Timothy Learnt sin to fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15565]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a language spoken by everyone but understood only by heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a language spoken by everyone but understood only by heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call it a wardrobe. It's a magic place where children find out that the world is a place of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call it a wardrobe. It's a magic place where children find out that the world is a place of infinite possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity makes even the timid brave. [Lat., Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity makes even the timid brave. [Lat., Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  Let a clergyman but intend to please ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  Let a clergyman but intend to please God in all his actions, as the happiest and best thing in the world, and then he will know that there is nothing noble in a clergyman but a burning zeal for the salvation of souls; nor anything poorer in his profession [than] idleness and a worldly spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52330]]></link><description><![CDATA[When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutralization of the independent individual- the independent voter, consumer, worker, owner, thinker- and that every device they employ aims at turning men into a manipulable "animated instrument" which is Aristotle's definition of a slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without justice, courage is weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without justice, courage is weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20334]]></link><description><![CDATA[What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17566]]></link><description><![CDATA[True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think other benefits are being utilized today more often than sabbaticals as retention tools. Instead of giving us six ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think other benefits are being utilized today more often than sabbaticals as retention tools. Instead of giving us six weeks off a year, employees are demanding more day to day flexibility, like the ability to telecommute, flex-time and child care or elder-care benefits. Those are the other areas where we are seeing real growth, while sabbaticals are sort of going up and down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in such a slump that even the ones that are drinking aren't hitting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10703]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in such a slump that even the ones that are drinking aren't hitting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,  The green leaves quiver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,  The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind,   And make a checkered shadow on the ground;    Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit,     And whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds,      Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns,       As if a double hunt were heard at once,        Let us sit down and mark their yellowing noise;         And after conflict such as was supposed          The wand'ring prince and Dido once enjoyed,           When with a happy storm they were surprised,            And curtained with a counsel-keeping cave,             We may, each wreathed in the other's arms,              Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber,               Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds                Be unto us as is a nurse's song                 Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain Remembrance gives, when the fix'd dart  Is stirred thus in the wound again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain Remembrance gives, when the fix'd dart  Is stirred thus in the wound again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16979]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27296]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This technique requires both sides of your brain -- analytical and creative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39266]]></link><description><![CDATA[This technique requires both sides of your brain -- analytical and creative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through her re-enactments of the stereotypical ways in which women and the female body have typically been depicted, she drew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through her re-enactments of the stereotypical ways in which women and the female body have typically been depicted, she drew attention to the power of media images to shape ideas of female identity,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am alwaystempted to ask, "Compared to what?". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22350]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am alwaystempted to ask, "Compared to what?".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time. Even if he should decide to abandon it forever ten minutes later, the memory will nag him to the grave. He has seen the creation of the world. It has his mark on it. He has its mark on him. Both marks are, for better or for worse, indelible. All sons, like all daughters, are prodigals if they're smart. Assuming the Old Man doesn't run out on them first, they will run out on him if they are to survive, and if he's smart he won't put up too much of a fuss. A wise father sees all this coming, and maybe that's why he keeps his distance from the start. He must survive too. Whether they ever find their way home again, none can say for sure, but it's the risk he must take if they're ever to find their way at all. In the meantime, the world tends to have a soft spot in its heart for lost children. Lost fathers have to fend for themselves. Even as the father lays down the law, he knows that someday his children will break it as they need to break it if ever they're to find something better than law to replace it. Until and unless that happens, there's no telling the scrapes they will get into trying to lose him and find themselves. Terrible blnders will be made-dissapointments and failures, hurts and losses of every kind. And they'll keep making them even after they've found themselves too, of course, because growing up is a process that goes on and on. And every hard knock they ever get, knocks the father even harder still, if that's possible, and if and when they finally come through more or less in one piece at the end, there's maybe no rejoicing greater than his in all creation. -Fatherhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41058]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23010]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;  At fifty, chides his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43177]]></link><description><![CDATA[At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;  At fifty, chides his infamous delay,   Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve,    In all the magnanimity of thought;     Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same.      And why? because he thinks himself immortal,       All men think all men mortal but themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58879</guid></item></channel></rss>