<?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 Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shallow men believe in luck,  believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shallow men believe in luck,  believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is; for neither by reason is it restrained, nor be dread thronged, nor by doom tempted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our customers tend to range in age from teenagers to people about 30. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our customers tend to range in age from teenagers to people about 30.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41622]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the hills, and over the main, To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain;  The Queen commands, and we'll obey,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the hills, and over the main, To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain;  The Queen commands, and we'll obey,   Over the hills and far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose an author as you choose a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose an author as you choose a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47340]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All professions are conspiracies against the laity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44868]]></link><description><![CDATA[All professions are conspiracies against the laity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am myself a man, and nothing relating to men is a matter of indifference to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51740]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am myself a man, and nothing relating to men is a matter of indifference to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15624]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reach the top, keep climbing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12710]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reach the top, keep climbing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56057]]></link><description><![CDATA[After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53905]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21636]]></link><description><![CDATA[champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. they have no use for helicopters!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall;  Equal on Sunday in the pew, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16679]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall;  Equal on Sunday in the pew,   On Monday in the mall.    For what avail the plough or sail,     Or land, or life, if freedom fail?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That lineup doesn't have any weak spots. The bench is full of stars. When you're pitching against them, you look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34787]]></link><description><![CDATA[That lineup doesn't have any weak spots. The bench is full of stars. When you're pitching against them, you look at the on-deck circle and the guy there is even better than the one you're facing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species that roams corporate waters will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species that roams corporate waters will prove just as hardy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57852]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exceedingly well read. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exceedingly well read. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all fooles had babies, wee should want fuell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49506]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all fooles had babies, wee should want fuell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere or other there must surely be The face not seen, the voice not heard,  The heart that not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere or other there must surely be The face not seen, the voice not heard,  The heart that not yet--never yet--ah me!   Made answer to my word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has snuck into laboratories and zoos, found people with monkeys as pets. The story is amazing because of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37454]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has snuck into laboratories and zoos, found people with monkeys as pets. The story is amazing because of the extent he's gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23710]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12057]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not clear that the Fed is going to move in June. Perhaps, the Fed moves late summer/early fall, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not clear that the Fed is going to move in June. Perhaps, the Fed moves late summer/early fall, if even then. What is clear is that the economy's momentum, which was quite strong in the first quarter, is indeed slowing down It is also clear that profit momentum for the year is going to be slow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43256]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we plan to do with that money is fund our state highway new-construction program for the next 10 years. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35291]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we plan to do with that money is fund our state highway new-construction program for the next 10 years. So, there's a lot of debate about the use of that money. And, of course, there's some debate about leasing the toll road itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt like we got in a rhythm there in the second half. I think it was a definite improvement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt like we got in a rhythm there in the second half. I think it was a definite improvement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55406]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation. [Lat., I demens! et saevas curre per Alpes,  Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solid pudding against empty praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solid pudding against empty praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60676]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow men the most valuable of the services he is able to perform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement has been dynamic; it confines men within its limits, while the movement had liberated them from the bondage of institutions; it looks to the past, [although] the movement had pointed forward. Though in content the institution resembles the dynamic epoch whence it proceeded, in spirit it is like the [state] before the revolution. So the Christian church, after the early period, often seemed more closely related in attitude to the Jewish synagogue and the Roman state than to the age of Christ and his apostles; its creed was often more like a system of philosophy than like the living gospel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You all know how difficult it is to operate with unanimity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41590]]></link><description><![CDATA[You all know how difficult it is to operate with unanimity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41590</guid></item></channel></rss>