<?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 value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody's going to fight for the mantle of Ariel Sharon. I think partly because he covered such a wide swath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody's going to fight for the mantle of Ariel Sharon. I think partly because he covered such a wide swath of the middle of Israeli politics there are going to be innumerable theories of what he might have done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken,  And, contrary, the moment, when we say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken,  And, contrary, the moment, when we say   "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [Lat., Quod si deficiant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [Lat., Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe  Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  For Christian consciousness, paradise is the Kingdom of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  For Christian consciousness, paradise is the Kingdom of Christ and is unthinkable apart from Christ. But this changes everything. The cross and the crucifixion enter into the bliss of paradise. The Son of God and the Son of Man descends into hell to free those who suffer there... To conquer evil, the good must crucify itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse,  Drink the clear stream, and nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58875]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse,  Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze,   Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4588]]></link><description><![CDATA[My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15911]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/891]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great question - which I have not been able to answer - is: "What does a woman want?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great question - which I have not been able to answer - is: "What does a woman want?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14817]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12473]]></link><description><![CDATA[First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has no religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53440]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has no religion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19382]]></link><description><![CDATA[[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the team has potential. Our pitching looks pretty good and defense looks pretty good, which is the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35536]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the team has potential. Our pitching looks pretty good and defense looks pretty good, which is the way we usually win games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy is better unborn than untaught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58745]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy is better unborn than untaught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4219]]></link><description><![CDATA["Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: "If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped by people we have never met. Yes, reading history will make you a better citizen and more appreciative of the law, and of freedom, and of how the economy works or doesn't work, but it is also an immense pleasure—the way art is, or music is, or poetry is. And it's never stale."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By education most have been misled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13402]]></link><description><![CDATA[By education most have been misled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me-I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me-I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60799]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was not the result of any information we received but was an unannounced locker search. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38685]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was not the result of any information we received but was an unannounced locker search.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The loss of jobs is never a pleasant thing. I know short term this is unpleasant, but I know long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The loss of jobs is never a pleasant thing. I know short term this is unpleasant, but I know long term we'll come out on top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46341]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and anaction which does not proceed from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21796]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and anaction which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancestral voices prophesying war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ancestral voices prophesying war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is the pain of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is the pain of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is above the law, and no man is below it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14119]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is above the law, and no man is below it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said there were too many incidents, but there's not enough incidents to make a drastic change in the program ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38133]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said there were too many incidents, but there's not enough incidents to make a drastic change in the program at this point in time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose a war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8505]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts, but beauty also lulls. Early associations endear, but they also confuse. Through that beautiful solemnity, the transporting or horrifying realities of which the Book tells may come to us blunted and disarmed, and we may only sigh with tranquil veneration when we ought to be burning with shame, or struck dumb with terror, or carried out of ourselves by ravishing hopes and adorations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9396]]></link><description><![CDATA[All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't been playing up to our capabilities lately. A win like this, a win at Syracuse ... I mean, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37596]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't been playing up to our capabilities lately. A win like this, a win at Syracuse ... I mean, we were up 24 in the Carrier Dome. That says something about who we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing a lot of new buying of the Canadian dollar. The central bank continues to tighten and everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34917]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing a lot of new buying of the Canadian dollar. The central bank continues to tighten and everyone is talking about the election. We expect continued strength in the Canadian dollar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61048]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16972]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call a spade a spade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call a spade a spade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12290</guid></item></channel></rss>