<?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[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[LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25517]]></link><description><![CDATA[LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She brightens my day! Every day I'm smiling, I'm thinking about her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36373]]></link><description><![CDATA[She brightens my day! Every day I'm smiling, I'm thinking about her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still,  Which he may adhere to, yet disown, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61589]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still,  Which he may adhere to, yet disown,   For reasons to himself best known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25287]]></link><description><![CDATA[One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4611]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a community field and for the entire community and that's how we see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32727]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a community field and for the entire community and that's how we see it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The store jelly doesn't compare. It's fun to give something you couldn't find in a store. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The store jelly doesn't compare. It's fun to give something you couldn't find in a store.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still, year after year strong mercury rules fail in Washington under pressure from corporate interests. Why? Not because the risks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still, year after year strong mercury rules fail in Washington under pressure from corporate interests. Why? Not because the risks of mercury poisoning aren’t real. No, lobbyists for the big industries just say they can’t afford to make changes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no containment on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41151]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no containment on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their familiescame and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, So. What did you think?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment is lame, but it comes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment is lame, but it comes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59851]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition to stand up for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk,  Is always happy, reign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16614]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk,  Is always happy, reign whoever may,   And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And will you succeed?Yes! You will indeed!(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47741]]></link><description><![CDATA[And will you succeed?Yes! You will indeed!(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suppose we've chosen the wrong god ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suppose we've chosen the wrong god]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first Epistle (to the Thessalonians) was written about a year after St. Paul's preaching in the city where, according ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7978]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first Epistle (to the Thessalonians) was written about a year after St. Paul's preaching in the city where, according to Prof. [William] Ramsay's calculation, he had laboured for only five months. Thus his stay had not been long enough for him to do more than teach the fundamental truths which seemed to him of the first importance: all the circumstances of his visit were still fresh in his memory and he was recalling to the minds of his readers what he had taught them by word of mouth. Now in that Epistle we get an extraordinarily clear and coherent account of simple mission-preaching not only implied but definitely expressed. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60618]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nuts, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34496]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nuts,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25012]]></link><description><![CDATA[When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones,  Forget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones,  Forget not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders. - Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why? Is this guy afraid of me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why? Is this guy afraid of me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1853]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who so loves believes the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who so loves believes the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The girls have worked hard and earned the right to play at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The girls have worked hard and earned the right to play at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though what you read in books may be more pointed, yet there is something in the voice, the look, the carriage, and even the gesture of the speaker, that makes a deeper impression upon the mind. [Lat., Praeterea multo magis, ut vulgo dicitur viva vox afficit: nam licet acriora sint, quae legas, ultius tamen in ammo sedent, quae pronuntiatio, vultus, habitus, gestus dicentis adfigit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we're going to see a different scheme or any major changes. They run their offense. Last week, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we're going to see a different scheme or any major changes. They run their offense. Last week, I think we saw a team that had to change things around a bit. Not this week. And has started before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56791]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13647]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we hire new coaches we have to ask what ideas they have for raising funds to support the program, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35042]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we hire new coaches we have to ask what ideas they have for raising funds to support the program,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's labor report could not have been more disheartening to those who thought the Fed had ended its monetary tightening. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's labor report could not have been more disheartening to those who thought the Fed had ended its monetary tightening. There is no possibility for the Fed to stop at the current 4.5 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't put new wine into old bottles ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't put new wine into old bottles]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing the truth, and telling it. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing the truth, and telling it. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There cannot be two kinds of medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41458]]></link><description><![CDATA[There cannot be two kinds of medicine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22240]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is known by the silence he keeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66866]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is known by the silence he keeps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46179]]></link><description><![CDATA[To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In doing we learne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49536]]></link><description><![CDATA[In doing we learne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49536</guid></item></channel></rss>