<?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[One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49692]]></link><description><![CDATA[One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the girls were more excited than she was. She was in a daze about the whole thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the girls were more excited than she was. She was in a daze about the whole thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46660]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Museums are becoming gathering places for the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Museums are becoming gathering places for the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3421]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All "little" magazines have the luxury of thinking the reader is the same person as their editors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13356]]></link><description><![CDATA[All "little" magazines have the luxury of thinking the reader is the same person as their editors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspending the operations of the PLO office is another message from Congress to the Palestinian people that it adopts the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspending the operations of the PLO office is another message from Congress to the Palestinian people that it adopts the position of the far right in Israel and this does not serve U.S. interests in the region.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I surprised by how slow he's moving? My basic answer is, yes. I knew he was not going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I surprised by how slow he's moving? My basic answer is, yes. I knew he was not going to turn the Earth on its head overnight. But given the vastness of his ambitions ... I would have expected in the first eight months he would be doing lots of things of consequence: more significant personnel moves, more significant documents, more serious public engagements, etc., etc.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for tobe what they choose for themselves, without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for tobe what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that theysatisfy you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golden Bill! Golden Bill! Lo, the peep of day;  All the air is cool and still,   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golden Bill! Golden Bill! Lo, the peep of day;  All the air is cool and still,   From the elm-tree on the hill,    Chant away:     . . . .      Let thy loud and welcome lay       Pour alway        Few notes but strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22154]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor."--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor."--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10304]]></link><description><![CDATA[If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meteor flag of England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16127]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meteor flag of England.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My outer child is holding my inner-adult hostage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/651]]></link><description><![CDATA[My outer child is holding my inner-adult hostage]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The darkest hour of a man's life is when he sits down to plan how toget money without earning it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The darkest hour of a man's life is when he sits down to plan how toget money without earning it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a pretty flimflam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48518]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a pretty flimflam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're an unselfish group willing to do whatever it takes to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33680]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're an unselfish group willing to do whatever it takes to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In you are sent The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;  In you soars up the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4548]]></link><description><![CDATA[In you are sent The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;  In you soars up the Adam from the fall;   In you the Future as the Past is given--    Ev'n in our death ye bid us hail our birth;--     Unfold these pages, and behold the Heaven,      Without one grave-stone left upon the Earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to individualize every single program for every guy in the system. That'll be the big positive. And of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38904]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to individualize every single program for every guy in the system. That'll be the big positive. And of course, the take-a-strike, we've modified that, that's no longer going to exist. Pitch counts will exist, but it's not one blanket program. If it needs to exist for a certain individual, it will. If it doesn't for another, it won't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the child of audacity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the child of audacity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good indignation brings out all one's powers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18834]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good indignation brings out all one's powers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few men know how to kiss well. Fortunately, I've always had time to teach them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few men know how to kiss well. Fortunately, I've always had time to teach them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection! -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55618]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection! -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man can master a grief but he that has it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man can master a grief but he that has it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not be surprised if a private equity group ended up buying Knight Ridder, and then took their time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not be surprised if a private equity group ended up buying Knight Ridder, and then took their time and sold off the assets to strategic buyers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore I do not see how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore I do not see how it is possible in the nature of things for any revival of religion to continue long. For religion must necessarily produce both industry and frugality, and these cannot but produce riches. But as riches increase, so will pride, anger, and love of the world in all its branches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like a train wreck. They can't look away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37150]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like a train wreck. They can't look away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just gethim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29441]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just gethim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The self-sins... dwell too deep within us and are too much a part of our natures to come to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The self-sins... dwell too deep within us and are too much a part of our natures to come to our attention till the light of God is focused upon them. The grosser manifestations of these sins -- egotism, exhibitionism, self-promotion -- are strangely tolerated in Christian leaders, even in circles of impeccable orthodoxy. They are so much in evidence as actually, for many people, to become identified with the gospel. I trust it is not a cynical observation to say that they appear these days to be a requisite for popularity in some sections of the Church visible. Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bee's favorite couplet: a sunup brimming buttercuplet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bee's favorite couplet: a sunup brimming buttercuplet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The Badgers) were throwing up a lot of contested shots, and we were getting rebounds and pushing it down. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36367]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The Badgers) were throwing up a lot of contested shots, and we were getting rebounds and pushing it down. We played our game. We put them in a situation where they were on their heels and had to run with us. We were coming down, getting good looks, open opportunities, and we were knocking them down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray, Mr. Abernethy, what is a cure for gout?' was the question of an indolent and luxurious citizen. 'Live upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray, Mr. Abernethy, what is a cure for gout?' was the question of an indolent and luxurious citizen. 'Live upon sixpence a day - and earn it,' was the cogent reply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the reason she's done so many of these films is because the '50s is such a rich era ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37206]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the reason she's done so many of these films is because the '50s is such a rich era for describing the journey of a woman,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By-and-by has no end. [Lat., Modo, et modo, non habebent modum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59297]]></link><description><![CDATA[By-and-by has no end. [Lat., Modo, et modo, non habebent modum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/237]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/237</guid></item></channel></rss>