<?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[In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56677]]></link><description><![CDATA[In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the devil is it that fresh features Have such a charm for us poor human creatures? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48745]]></link><description><![CDATA[How the devil is it that fresh features Have such a charm for us poor human creatures?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were more skilled. They threw the ball well, caught the ball well and found the open man better than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29501]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were more skilled. They threw the ball well, caught the ball well and found the open man better than us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20886]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7764]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love giveth sure access to God. But he who still delighteth in sin, no marvel if he is afraid of death and judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good writing is clear thinking made visible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good writing is clear thinking made visible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65369]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just when I'm about to end my writerly explorations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much more disgraceful to write one thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51162]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much more disgraceful to write one thing and think another!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the man of one book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the man of one book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who are under the illusion that they're going to take all the best from both programs are living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who are under the illusion that they're going to take all the best from both programs are living a fantasy. You can't give everybody the best of both worlds in a low-cost environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a major victory in the war against caviar criminals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37864]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a major victory in the war against caviar criminals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bathe of the Blackamoor hath sworne not to whiten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49796]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bathe of the Blackamoor hath sworne not to whiten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62960]]></link><description><![CDATA[No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think our numbers wore them down. We subbed liberally and kept fresh feet out there. I think that helped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39938]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think our numbers wore them down. We subbed liberally and kept fresh feet out there. I think that helped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25357]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62769]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47490]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconsciousness convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of our 20,000 university graduates each year, 60 percent have a degree in science, technology or business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of our 20,000 university graduates each year, 60 percent have a degree in science, technology or business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at you. You made a hole-in-one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at you. You made a hole-in-one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was always on the cards and they can justify it on the grounds that the new president will want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28949]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was always on the cards and they can justify it on the grounds that the new president will want his own people on the ground. But it sends all the wrong signals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57973]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22740]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11540]]></link><description><![CDATA[False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11291]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43965]]></link><description><![CDATA[All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,-- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61774]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10807]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question every day is whether the program that we're providing is unique and reaching residents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question every day is whether the program that we're providing is unique and reaching residents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We condemn the act of violence and we are really concerned with what happened yesterday and we hope that it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33550]]></link><description><![CDATA[We condemn the act of violence and we are really concerned with what happened yesterday and we hope that it won't disturb the agenda for next week's meeting of foreign ministers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What some invent, the rest enlarge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17925]]></link><description><![CDATA[What some invent, the rest enlarge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1067]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63360]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1928]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4708]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18714]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room ahs been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on. . -Sharon Salzberg.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it;  But be it known to Skin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it;  But be it known to Skin and Bone   That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fewer facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fewer facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;  On eagles' wings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54748]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;  On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,   While virtuous actions are but borne to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realizationof the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realizationof the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dallas played smarter than us. They played harder than us. It seems their will was greater than ours. Everything snowballed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dallas played smarter than us. They played harder than us. It seems their will was greater than ours. Everything snowballed from there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is not an exact science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is not an exact science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47630</guid></item></channel></rss>