<?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[But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44446]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed of any late-breaking...humor we can find. Of course, our show is obviously at a disadvantage compared to the many news sources that we're competing with… at a disadvantage in several respects. For one thing, we are fake. They are not. So in terms of credibility we are, well, oddly enough, actually about even. We're about even.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatively speaking, my understanding of the law is that if Google went to scan in a book without the author's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservatively speaking, my understanding of the law is that if Google went to scan in a book without the author's permission, then that would be a violation of copyright law. I think it would be great to be able to search text electronically, but you have to get the copyright permission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34231]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no short cut, nor "royal road," to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38358]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no short cut, nor "royal road," to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to pursue is long, difficult, and unsafe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   A man's personality actuates and quickens his whole body. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   A man's personality actuates and quickens his whole body. If anyone said it was unsuitable for the man's power to be in the toe, he would be thought silly, because, while granting that a man penetrates and actuates the whole of his body, he denied his presence in the part. Similarly, no one who admits the presence of the Word of God in the universe as a whole should think it unsuitable for a single human body to be by Him actuated and enlightened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kiss me and you will see how important I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kiss me and you will see how important I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66278]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24655]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19182]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop. The leaves of life keep falling one by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24863]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop. The leaves of life keep falling one by one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've heard they've had signs up about Cuero for the last three weeks. We're excited about playing this game but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38308]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've heard they've had signs up about Cuero for the last three weeks. We're excited about playing this game but not to the point where we do not know what we're doing. We just have to go into the game with intensity and remain focused on our goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man turns chance into good fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22310]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man turns chance into good fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24572]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14108]]></link><description><![CDATA[A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part,  Is not more fondly dear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48702]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part,  Is not more fondly dear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. What is your study? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. What is your study?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief,  And that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief,  And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth,   Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire;    Men, women, and all animals that breathe     Are statues, and not paintings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's invaluable. Honestly, without having me being a literacy coach, there is no way we could run the program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42666]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's invaluable. Honestly, without having me being a literacy coach, there is no way we could run the program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel engineering seem to have misheard Intel marketing strategy. The phrase was "Divide and conquer" not "Divide and cock up" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intel engineering seem to have misheard Intel marketing strategy. The phrase was "Divide and conquer" not "Divide and cock up"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him. [Ger., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53882]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him. [Ger., Ich halte nichts von dem, der von sich denkt  Wie ihn das Volk vielleicht erheben mochte.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sign of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36635]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sign of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3513]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.   - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16490]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19755]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in,  I think of those companions true  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in,  I think of those companions true   Who studied with me at the U-    Niversity of Gottingen.   - George Canning, Song--Of One Eleven Years in Prison,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25226]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While this amount may seem large, it pales in comparison to the estimated $100 billion spent each year on bottled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34505]]></link><description><![CDATA[While this amount may seem large, it pales in comparison to the estimated $100 billion spent each year on bottled water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60520]]></link><description><![CDATA[One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that preacheth giveth almes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49388]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that preacheth giveth almes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim for the highest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim for the highest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47632]]></link><description><![CDATA[A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43518</guid></item></channel></rss>