<?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[No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19689]]></link><description><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3087]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1093]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point we just don't know how these drugs might affect immunity, so we really need to clarify the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35671]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point we just don't know how these drugs might affect immunity, so we really need to clarify the normal role of serotonin in immune cell functioning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Older people are seen basically as doddery but dear, and young people perhaps as clever but callous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Older people are seen basically as doddery but dear, and young people perhaps as clever but callous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort. [Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9119]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort. [Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm But the harm does not interest them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A living dog is better than a dead lion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48562]]></link><description><![CDATA[A living dog is better than a dead lion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26214]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28051]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For God, ... declaring that he will be gentle and kind to all, gives to the utterly miserable hope that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7488]]></link><description><![CDATA[For God, ... declaring that he will be gentle and kind to all, gives to the utterly miserable hope that they will get what they have sought. Accordingly we must note the general forms by which no one from first to last (as people say) is excluded, provided sincerity of heart, dissatisfaction with ourselves, humility, and faith are present in order that our hypocrisy may not profane God's name by calling upon him deceitfully. Our most gracious Father will not cast out those whom he not only urges, but stirs up with every possible means, to come to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may delay, but time will not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48299]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may delay, but time will not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial "we." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial "we."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where we've gotten mixed up is that we believe actions follow belief. But experience creates belief.. N. Smith -Rev Cecil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where we've gotten mixed up is that we believe actions follow belief. But experience creates belief.. N. Smith -Rev Cecil Williams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money talks — but credit has an echo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money talks — but credit has an echo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Molly kept house for him when she was older. But when she was younger, she was quite a rakish young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Molly kept house for him when she was older. But when she was younger, she was quite a rakish young woman. She had an affair with a married man in the 1890s that was the talk of Cincinnati.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were ten lepers healed, and only one turned back to give thanks, but it is to be noticed that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6893]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were ten lepers healed, and only one turned back to give thanks, but it is to be noticed that our Lord did not recall His gift from the other nine because of their lack of gratitude. When we begin to lessen our acts of kindness and helpfulness because we think those who receive do not properly appreciate what is done for them, it is time to question our own motives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. [Lat., Teneris, heu, lubrica moribus aetas!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. [Lat., Teneris, heu, lubrica moribus aetas!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988  The Christian's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988  The Christian's life is lived in the open, not in a pious cubby-hole. As Christ gives Himself to feed us, so we have to incarnate something of His all-loving, all-sacrificing soul. If we do not, then we have not really received Him. That is the plain truth. It has been said that there are many ways and degrees of receiving the Blessed Sacrament. It really depends on how wide we open our hearts. A spiritually selfish communion is not a communion at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes-- they only function when open. Thomas Dewar  "Doublethink" means the power of holding two contradictory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes-- they only function when open. Thomas Dewar  "Doublethink" means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. •George Orwell   The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. •Henri L. Bergson   Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out . . . People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts. •Eleanor H. Porter   The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes. •Henry Courtney   A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. •Leonardo Da Vinci   A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. •Carolyn Wells   Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character. •S. Dubay   A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. •Winston Churchill   The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. •Sigmund Freud   A feeble body weakens the mind. •Jean Jacques Rousseau   Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. •Buckminster Fuller   A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. •Anthony Trollope   We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. •Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe   A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. •Jean de LaBruyere   Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. •Napoleon Hill   A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. •Martin Luther King, Jr.   A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments. •Nicholas Hilliard  A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. •Eugene Ionesco   Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs. •Maxwell Maltz  Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set. •Source Unknown   The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use it. •Michel de Montaigne  If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. •Lyall Watson  Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. •Elbert Hubbard  The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. •Colin Wilson   Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1129]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begging a courtesy is selling liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begging a courtesy is selling liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43095]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our surveillance team set up and watched this particular group install a card reader and a camera on the ATM ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our surveillance team set up and watched this particular group install a card reader and a camera on the ATM machine,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between those two we need gradual increases of complexity and achievements to keep the public interest, to keep the funding, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between those two we need gradual increases of complexity and achievements to keep the public interest, to keep the funding, to keep the political support going. We've gone to the Moon, we've stopped doing that; now commercial people are doing it. Who knows? Maybe we will get technology from other sources; something I have written about in my days of writing science fiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think they're very good at protecting people in a crash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28664]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think they're very good at protecting people in a crash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10516]]></link><description><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43603]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3338]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes! - 1997.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental", you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental", you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, "we must be realistic", they mean they are going to make money out of it. -Brigid Brophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has proven to be a very effective [model]. It is a single point for education, enablement--what I call kicking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33852]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has proven to be a very effective [model]. It is a single point for education, enablement--what I call kicking the tires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest--  But middle age by no fond wile, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest--  But middle age by no fond wile,   No soothing calm is blest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way  Until the peacock led him in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46001]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way  Until the peacock led him in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May be he is not well. Infirmity doth neglect all office  Whereto our health is bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18928]]></link><description><![CDATA[May be he is not well. Infirmity doth neglect all office  Whereto our health is bound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians awake, salute the happy morn Whereon the Saviour of the world was born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians awake, salute the happy morn Whereon the Saviour of the world was born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1133]]></link><description><![CDATA[When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linux poses a real challenge for those with a taste for late-nighthacking (and/or conversations with God). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Linux poses a real challenge for those with a taste for late-nighthacking (and/or conversations with God).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blind bargain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5009]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blind bargain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some who, because the point is the limit and extreme of the line, the line of the plane, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17379]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some who, because the point is the limit and extreme of the line, the line of the plane, and the plane of the solid, think there must be real things of this sort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it's not a good situation. Nobody wants to see [a work stoppage] happen, and it's always looming over in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it's not a good situation. Nobody wants to see [a work stoppage] happen, and it's always looming over in the corner that we may not be playing hockey. And that scares me more then anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32841</guid></item></channel></rss>