<?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[He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49310]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics is written for mathematicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics is written for mathematicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's tough because it happened so fast. At one point we were up there, and now we're at the bottom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's tough because it happened so fast. At one point we were up there, and now we're at the bottom. It's tough to swallow right now. ... Things aren't always gonna go your way. That's the only way I can really look at it. Some things we can control and some we can't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe everything you read, better not read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51877]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe everything you read, better not read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61463]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31155]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he coulddo it so well that no one could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he coulddo it so well that no one could find fault with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her. The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when--the match went out. The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63487]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42879]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Horse AN ASS besought a Horse to spare him a small portion of his feed. Yes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Horse AN ASS besought a Horse to spare him a small portion of his feed. Yes, said the Horse; if any remains out of what I am noweating I will give it you for the sake of my own superiordignity, and if you will come when I reach my own stall in theevening, I will give you a little sack full of barley. The Assreplied, Thank you. But I can't think that you, who refuse me alittle matter now. will by and by confer on me a greaterbenefit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26501]]></link><description><![CDATA[As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never let a rhinestone go unturned ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never let a rhinestone go unturned]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["So the Bluebirds have contracted, have they, for a house? And a next is under way for little Mr. Wren?" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4365]]></link><description><![CDATA["So the Bluebirds have contracted, have they, for a house? And a next is under way for little Mr. Wren?"  "Hush, dear, hush! Be quiet, dear! quiet as a mouse.   These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's athletic, but he's really raw yet. He's definitely a scrappy kid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36470]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's athletic, but he's really raw yet. He's definitely a scrappy kid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens--and then everybody disagrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens--and then everybody disagrees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31073]]></link><description><![CDATA[You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest of the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47858]]></link><description><![CDATA[One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64542]]></link><description><![CDATA[For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53723]]></link><description><![CDATA["The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who allows oppression shares the crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57027]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who allows oppression shares the crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63208]]></link><description><![CDATA[But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We won't have a society if we destroy the environment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13312]]></link><description><![CDATA[We won't have a society if we destroy the environment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't hold back because the student movement will continue and there could be some risks. There should be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35686]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't hold back because the student movement will continue and there could be some risks. There should be a strike next week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw  Virtue in her own shape how lovely; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw  Virtue in her own shape how lovely; saw   And pined his loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46101]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally). It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40885]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holidays - Have no pity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holidays - Have no pity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right, instantly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right, instantly]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17704]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7998]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been asked what especially he conceived his own duty to be, he would have said that it was to force men to realize once more that the world was actually governed by a just God; that the old familiar story, acknowledged everywhere in words on Sundays and disregarded or openly denied on week-days, was, after all, true. His writings, every one of them, ... were to this same purpose and on this same text -- that truth must be spoken and justice must be done; on any other conditions, no real commonwealth, no common welfare, is permitted or possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder is the beginning of wisdom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder is the beginning of wisdom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a piece of orange-peel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a piece of orange-peel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People at the seminars will learn about the tools of estate planning in the other topics. I'll provide a checklist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37669]]></link><description><![CDATA[People at the seminars will learn about the tools of estate planning in the other topics. I'll provide a checklist of what they need to do once they get home to actually make those happen. They need to be able to walk away from this with everything they need to do this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great that they gave me something to act other than, 'Hi, dear, how are you doing?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29444]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great that they gave me something to act other than, 'Hi, dear, how are you doing?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to give people something to dream on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64459]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to give people something to dream on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64459</guid></item></channel></rss>