<?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[If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself . . . that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61976]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself . . . that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of suffering is experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of suffering is experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jamie started the idea when she was in high school. She seemed to befriend the exchange students. She had an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jamie started the idea when she was in high school. She seemed to befriend the exchange students. She had an Easter egg coloring and an egg hunt. It was so much fun to see the teenagers having such a good time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60254]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're never a loser until you quit trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21661]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're never a loser until you quit trying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63980]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you hit a shot at the end of a quarter or a half, that gives you a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31278]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you hit a shot at the end of a quarter or a half, that gives you a lot of momentum if the game is close. Rochester played us tough and made a lot of shots they needed to. We needed to dig down deep and play well defensively to get some stops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14361]]></link><description><![CDATA[This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49017]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16480]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!" [Lat., Intrantis medici facies tres esse videntur  Aegrotanti; hominis, Daemonis, atque Dei.   Cum primum accessit medicus dixitque salutem,    En Deus aut custos angelus, aeger ait.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54165]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust. (Ruth 2:12)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48430]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had 13 points against Logan and 10 against Watkins Memorial. During those eight games we were losing, he wasn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39947]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had 13 points against Logan and 10 against Watkins Memorial. During those eight games we were losing, he wasn't playing too well. I think he gained some confidence in that game against Watkins. He was coming back from an injury and finally got comfortable and played his game and didn't worry about his ankle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51685]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2796]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act iv. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55995]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act iv. Sc. 8.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Nouveau riche’ is better than ‘no riche.’ ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14768]]></link><description><![CDATA[‘Nouveau riche’ is better than ‘no riche.’]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17714]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18463]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46402]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49961]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet,  And golden locks in breezy play,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet,  And golden locks in breezy play,   Half teasing and half tender, to repeat    Her song of "May."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all love a mystery, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36636]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all love a mystery,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!)  Be humble and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!)  Be humble and be just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3761]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infidelity in woman is a masculine trait ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infidelity in woman is a masculine trait]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The campaigns have done of a lot of the intensive grass-roots work and electronic media radio and TV advertising. They're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31746]]></link><description><![CDATA[The campaigns have done of a lot of the intensive grass-roots work and electronic media radio and TV advertising. They're clearly generating more interest than we had two years ago, and I think that'll carry through to election day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bowl dispels corroding cares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bowl dispels corroding cares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  Each of us individually has risen into moral life from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  Each of us individually has risen into moral life from a mode of being which was purely natural; in other words, each of us also has fallen -- fallen, presumably in ways determined by his natural constitution, yet certainly, as conscience assures us, in ways for which we are morally answerable, and to which, in the moral constitution of the world, consequences attach which we must recognise as our due. They are not only results of our action, but results which that action has merited; and there is no moral hope for us unless we accept them as such.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11270]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about consciously creating the second half of our lives, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40829]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about consciously creating the second half of our lives,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can only change the world by changing men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62223]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can only change the world by changing men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool  Prelusive drops, let all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool  Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow   In large effusion, o'er the freshen'd world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37259]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as many people (with disabilities) here as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Nine Network experienced a difficult year. This level of cost growth is not sustainable and the newly installed management ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Nine Network experienced a difficult year. This level of cost growth is not sustainable and the newly installed management team have embarked on a vigorous review aimed at improving operating efficiency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of business out there, but if you haven't got the right (capability) levels in the right places, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42584]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of business out there, but if you haven't got the right (capability) levels in the right places, then you can't take it on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4520</guid></item></channel></rss>