<?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[In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment. That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . th' approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews with spangles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59930]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . th' approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade,   And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. - The Man in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. - The Man in the Water, 1994.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the shorthand of emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the shorthand of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before a cure is found we will all have been affected one way or another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before a cure is found we will all have been affected one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her for having pitied them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51437]]></link><description><![CDATA[She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her for having pitied them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29855]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29550]]></link><description><![CDATA[However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft has said the decision could hurt the overall economy; it's something that's been followed like no other case; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has said the decision could hurt the overall economy; it's something that's been followed like no other case; and its happening in an industry that's changing very rapidly where justice delayed is justice denied, ... All the elements are in place for them to take it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21387]]></link><description><![CDATA[To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Tribune, on a long-term basis, it's terrific. While in the short term there's a lot of dilution, ultimately this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34325]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Tribune, on a long-term basis, it's terrific. While in the short term there's a lot of dilution, ultimately this will be a monster success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's life after 401(k). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39472]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's life after 401(k).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21061]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's kind of fun to do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart that truly loves never forgets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart that truly loves never forgets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you see a fellow-creature in trouble, remember that he is a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you see a fellow-creature in trouble, remember that he is a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called  The beacon of the wise, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called  The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches   To th' bottom of the worst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the voice of strange command Calling you still, as friend calls friend,  With love that cannot brook ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43303]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the voice of strange command Calling you still, as friend calls friend,  With love that cannot brook delay,   To rise and follow the ways that wend    Over the hills and far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is fear of one's self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is fear of one's self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they will also do the minimum to stop people from going to fight in Iraq to avoid a sectarian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28235]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they will also do the minimum to stop people from going to fight in Iraq to avoid a sectarian conflict at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore I say again I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul  Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore I say again I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul  Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once more   I hold my most malicious for and think not    At all a friend to truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We let Carlos, Nasser and Hiroshi pass us today and then we were in their dust. If you want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41116]]></link><description><![CDATA[We let Carlos, Nasser and Hiroshi pass us today and then we were in their dust. If you want to finish the stage safely you need to keep out of the dust of the car in front. It was just like a long train of cars and bikes today. There was no chance to get into a rhythm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking about a horrendous terrorist attack. ... Don't ask me to play lotto, ... I cannot evaluate probabilities. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39083]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking about a horrendous terrorist attack. ... Don't ask me to play lotto, ... I cannot evaluate probabilities. We only work with things that are proven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the Most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the Most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any Motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44118]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's three inches thick, so it's going to keep all the heat inside your water heater that otherwise would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31355]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's three inches thick, so it's going to keep all the heat inside your water heater that otherwise would be radiating out into your room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it's for the musicians, to get the bands back together and play some music, because a lot of these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it's for the musicians, to get the bands back together and play some music, because a lot of these guys don't play anymore. But, our main thing, one of the constant things, is that we give band instruments to the high school and middle schools (of north central Wisconsin). That's the really big thing that we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intelligent person understands others, a brilliant person understands himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62839]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intelligent person understands others, a brilliant person understands himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is ample precedent for the Security Council to take up the human rights and political situation in a country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30402]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is ample precedent for the Security Council to take up the human rights and political situation in a country with as horrific a record as Burma, especially when suffering spills across borders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is a sure sign your thinking is unnatural.*HS was the amanuensis for the Course In Miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is a sure sign your thinking is unnatural.*HS was the amanuensis for the Course In Miracles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29006]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fine has been imposed because his duties don't allow him to be offering advice to the referee during the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35961]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fine has been imposed because his duties don't allow him to be offering advice to the referee during the course of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime -- I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful. I agree that it's hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain deserves no consideration at all. It's no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jay is a guy who is always going to put the ball in play. He's a decent hitter, a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jay is a guy who is always going to put the ball in play. He's a decent hitter, a good hitter. Fortunately, with the bases loaded, he was able to hit a home run for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want faith, I want knowledge. I do not want hope, I want truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want faith, I want knowledge. I do not want hope, I want truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61773]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44069]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh goodie, goth mimes. The best of both worlds. They pretend they're trapped in a box and then whine about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh goodie, goth mimes. The best of both worlds. They pretend they're trapped in a box and then whine about how cruel and unfair it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty: for beauty is simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5718]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty: for beauty is simply Reality seen with the eyes of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46306]]></link><description><![CDATA[It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46306</guid></item></channel></rss>