<?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[Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are, I should say, four elements in a redemptive community. It is personal, with things happening between people as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7101]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are, I should say, four elements in a redemptive community. It is personal, with things happening between people as well as to and in them individually; it is compassionate, always eager to help, observant but non judgmental toward others, breathing out hope and concern; it is creative, with imagination about each one in the group and its work as a whole, watching for authentic new vision coming from any of them; and it is expectant, always seeking to offer to God open and believing hearts and minds through which He can work out His will, either in the sometimes startling miracles He gives or in steady purpose through long stretches where there is no special "opening". It may fairly be said that unless one enmeshes himself in this "redemptive fellowship" of the church, he lessens his chances of steady growth and effectiveness, in his Christian life and experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unlived life is not worth examining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unlived life is not worth examining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11775]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!" We all thought he was crazy. But then we had some growing up to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The National Children's Study would follow more than 100,000 children, from before birth -- and, in some cases, even before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34090]]></link><description><![CDATA[The National Children's Study would follow more than 100,000 children, from before birth -- and, in some cases, even before pregnancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is a good walk spoiled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is a good walk spoiled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41619]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52770]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43229]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a significant increase in the number of emergent CT scans performed after the release of the NCI statement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40693]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a significant increase in the number of emergent CT scans performed after the release of the NCI statement in 2002, ... As physicians we should make judicious use of CT scans a priority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51127]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made my money by selling too soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15903]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made my money by selling too soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we found out that they were going to close, we had to go out and find another supplier. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38693]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we found out that they were going to close, we had to go out and find another supplier. It is possible that we could purchase some things from them on a spot basis. But that wouldn't be much compared to the way things were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the person's house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of its head with a note that says 'You.' After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There would bee no great ones if there were no little ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There would bee no great ones if there were no little ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1649]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birds of a feather will gather together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birds of a feather will gather together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Underneath an apple-tree Sat a maiden and her lover;  And the thoughts within her he   Yearned, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Underneath an apple-tree Sat a maiden and her lover;  And the thoughts within her he   Yearned, in silence, to discover.    Round them danced the sunbeams bright,     Green the grass-lawn stretched before them      While the apple blossoms white       Hung in rich profusion o'er them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance generally favors the prudent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance generally favors the prudent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the investigation implicates Syria, are we going to wage war on it? And if it acquits it, are we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42609]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the investigation implicates Syria, are we going to wage war on it? And if it acquits it, are we going to invite Syria back here again?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48217]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59223]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[in historical context it has gotten worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28919]]></link><description><![CDATA[in historical context it has gotten worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it--peace! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it--peace!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35200]]></link><description><![CDATA[It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43289]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology is a science of mind applied to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology is a science of mind applied to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cardinal rule is you stay on line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cardinal rule is you stay on line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe Where every book is thy epitaph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe Where every book is thy epitaph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Baal-adorer bows on Sinai's steep; Yet there, e'en there, O God, thy thunders sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Baal-adorer bows on Sinai's steep; Yet there, e'en there, O God, thy thunders sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50736]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43930]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from those unkind; yet strange, I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24585]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from those unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11191]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61321]]></link><description><![CDATA[OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo. sifted through the winds that blow, Down comes the soft and silent snow,  White petals from the flowers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo. sifted through the winds that blow, Down comes the soft and silent snow,  White petals from the flowers that grow   In the cold atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be killed than frightened to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10521]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be killed than frightened to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47639]]></link><description><![CDATA[CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disgrace before meat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you might bathe your feet in a cornucopia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you might bathe your feet in a cornucopia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who eates his cock alone must saddle his horse alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who eates his cock alone must saddle his horse alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50091</guid></item></channel></rss>