<?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[Look! how he laughs and stretches out his arms, And opens wide his blue eyes upon thine,  To hail ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look! how he laughs and stretches out his arms, And opens wide his blue eyes upon thine,  To hail his father; while his little form   Flutters as winged with joy. Talk not of pain!    The childless cherubs well might envy thee     The pleasures of a parent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mechanism is always important, because without understanding it, it's difficult to predict how animal data would translate to people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mechanism is always important, because without understanding it, it's difficult to predict how animal data would translate to people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propaganda replaces moral philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933   [In nineteenth-century America] religion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933   [In nineteenth-century America] religion became a matter of conduct, of good deeds, of works, with only a vague background of faith. It became highly functional, highly pragmatic; it became a guarantee of success, moral and material. "The proper study of mankind is man," was the evasion by which many American divines escaped the necessity for thought about God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25501]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Lacon, 1825.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3488]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born out of concern for all beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born out of concern for all beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often a seeing a friend in pain outweighs our own pain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often a seeing a friend in pain outweighs our own pain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving is dead, restoring very sicke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43779]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28298]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26734]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have a general idea of the numbers, but when we reach this point, it is important to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31248]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have a general idea of the numbers, but when we reach this point, it is important to have a precise idea of the numbers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God makes three requests of his children: Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have, now ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12705]]></link><description><![CDATA[God makes three requests of his children: Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have, now]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once I got there, I noticed that smoke was everywhere, and we noticed that someone had tried to kick one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once I got there, I noticed that smoke was everywhere, and we noticed that someone had tried to kick one of the side doors in to get in the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The discontented man finds no easy chair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The discontented man finds no easy chair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9551]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For NASA, space is still a high priority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9346]]></link><description><![CDATA[For NASA, space is still a high priority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away. [Lat., Gaudia non remanent, sed fugitiva volant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away. [Lat., Gaudia non remanent, sed fugitiva volant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!  I know whose love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43203]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!  I know whose love would follow me still,   Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58655]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propaganda...serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propaganda...serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My guess is that the U.S. will say we are doing what we can. The Saudis will say please do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38952]]></link><description><![CDATA[My guess is that the U.S. will say we are doing what we can. The Saudis will say please do more and there will be an agreement to work together to do a little bit more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ratons and myse and soche smale dere That was his mete that vii. yere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ratons and myse and soche smale dere That was his mete that vii. yere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ellen has demonstrated her extraordinary ability to connect with the television viewing audience. ... We are delighted to have her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ellen has demonstrated her extraordinary ability to connect with the television viewing audience. ... We are delighted to have her back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27207]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. -Clare Booth Luce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13829]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57433]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft Machine were going more in the direction of fusion jazz and I didn't like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft Machine were going more in the direction of fusion jazz and I didn't like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deeper than did ever plummet sound I 'll drown my book. -The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deeper than did ever plummet sound I 'll drown my book. -The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56088</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[No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3317]]></link><description><![CDATA[No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20692]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less we know the more we suspect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less we know the more we suspect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hide your body in the Big Dipper ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hide your body in the Big Dipper]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9846]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is popular deserves attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is popular deserves attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have yet to achieve needed traction there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30310]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have yet to achieve needed traction there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21897]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20981</guid></item></channel></rss>