<?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[As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16241]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28041]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family is my strength and my weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66195]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family is my strength and my weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19457]]></link><description><![CDATA[History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2320]]></link><description><![CDATA[But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started playing a little bit soft, playing some zone. Probably shouldn't have done it. Probably should have just kept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35372]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started playing a little bit soft, playing some zone. Probably shouldn't have done it. Probably should have just kept on going and kept on grinding. But the third quarter was lights out. That was an awesome performance out of the kids, and we got turnovers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own. [Fr., Les abeilles pillotent deca dela les fleurs; mais elles en font aprez le miel, qui est tout leur; ce n'est plus thym, ny marjolaine: ainsi les pieces empruntees d'aultruy, il les transformera et confondra pour en faire un ouvrage tout sien.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam was looking for a comedian to do a 7 o'clock show. Two years ago, I was up for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam was looking for a comedian to do a 7 o'clock show. Two years ago, I was up for a 10 o'clock show at another hotel, but I didn't want a 10 o'clock show. It isn't my crowd and I didn't think it would work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find a need and fill it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find a need and fill it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We were very lucky. We started Spy at a time when our generation had arrived at full adulthood and wanted to connect to its anti-establishment youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man doeswith that moment will be more important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22668]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man doeswith that moment will be more important than the events of the previousmillennia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danny and his staff have represented Duquesne with class. I thanked him for that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Danny and his staff have represented Duquesne with class. I thanked him for that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a great release for us. It is really a break from [our] norm, and will gauge what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42559]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a great release for us. It is really a break from [our] norm, and will gauge what we do with this genre. Initial numbers out the door have been very positive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16044]]></link><description><![CDATA[The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the proteins look very similar. Without the labeling, it would be like trying to find a specific potato within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41360]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the proteins look very similar. Without the labeling, it would be like trying to find a specific potato within a couple hundred thousand of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20309]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true; this stuff can't be made up, folks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40291]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true; this stuff can't be made up, folks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble theirfood, and tyrannize their teachers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble theirfood, and tyrannize their teachers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3350]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf; 'tis sweet to view on high  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52944]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf; 'tis sweet to view on high  The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This group is rich in talent and personality. They embody the spirit of Wake Forest field hockey and I look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37816]]></link><description><![CDATA[This group is rich in talent and personality. They embody the spirit of Wake Forest field hockey and I look forward to their contributions as student-athletes. I have faith in their ability to keep up the strong tradition of Wake Forest hockey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He acknowledges that he has an alcohol problem. He knows his whole career depends on doing this right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30016]]></link><description><![CDATA[He acknowledges that he has an alcohol problem. He knows his whole career depends on doing this right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[70 pheasants shot in Rolling Rockby Dick Cheney who's not in Iraq. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/261]]></link><description><![CDATA[70 pheasants shot in Rolling Rockby Dick Cheney who's not in Iraq.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the whirligig of time Brings in his revenges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the whirligig of time Brings in his revenges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's an acre sown indeed, With the richest royalest seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's an acre sown indeed, With the richest royalest seed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953 Continuing a Lenten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  In our praying, we should speak to God about Himself -- that is praise; or about His gifts--that is thanksgiving; or about other people -- that is intercession; or about our sins--that is confession and penitence; or about our needs--that is petition. Prayer has five fingers, like a hand, and each in turn must be pointed to God, that our prayer may be full and complete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51174]]></link><description><![CDATA[No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45556]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44280]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This legislation gives prosecutors and law enforcement tools they need to keep sexual predators off the streets and to hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39778]]></link><description><![CDATA[This legislation gives prosecutors and law enforcement tools they need to keep sexual predators off the streets and to hold our worst child abusers fully accountable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58961]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith--and faith will triumph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14974]]></link><description><![CDATA[The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith--and faith will triumph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first degree of folly is to hold ones selfe wise, the second to professe it, the third to despise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first degree of folly is to hold ones selfe wise, the second to professe it, the third to despise counsell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49850</guid></item></channel></rss>