<?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[Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, "You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore what does that signify to me?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has snuck into laboratories and zoos, found people with monkeys as pets. The story is amazing because of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37454]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has snuck into laboratories and zoos, found people with monkeys as pets. The story is amazing because of the extent he's gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17096]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died,  We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it--lie down for an aeon or two,   Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65393]]></link><description><![CDATA[All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22315]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This flower that first appeared as summer's guest Preserves her beauty 'mid autumnal leaves  And to her mournful habits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25938]]></link><description><![CDATA[This flower that first appeared as summer's guest Preserves her beauty 'mid autumnal leaves  And to her mournful habits fondly cleaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60992]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You meet a thousand times in life with those who, in dealing with any religious question, make at once their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6389]]></link><description><![CDATA[You meet a thousand times in life with those who, in dealing with any religious question, make at once their appeal to reason, and insist on forthwith rejecting aught that lies beyond its sphere -- without, however, being able to render any clear account of the nature and proper limits of the knowledge thus derived, or of the relation in which such knowledge stands to the religious needs of men. I would invite you, therefore, to inquire seriously whether such persons are not really bowing down before an idol of the mind, which, while itself of very questionable worth, demands as much implicit faith from its worshipers as divine revelation itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27892]]></link><description><![CDATA[The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49251]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance of Living, 1937.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been a waste to switch. But had we moved anywhere else, I wouldn't have gotten to stay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40312]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been a waste to switch. But had we moved anywhere else, I wouldn't have gotten to stay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52211]]></link><description><![CDATA[To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50275]]></link><description><![CDATA[In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14656]]></link><description><![CDATA["Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made adjustments at half-time and we didn't. Their press killed us, and our girls just looked like they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42650]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made adjustments at half-time and we didn't. Their press killed us, and our girls just looked like they were worn out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aqueducts are off. The water I have in storage is what I've got. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35410]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aqueducts are off. The water I have in storage is what I've got.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   Love is careful of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and of little accidents; not allowing to itself any infirmity which it strives not to master, aiming at what it cannot yet reach, desiring to be of an angelic purity, and of a perfect innocence, and a seraphical fervor, and fears every image of offense; is as much afflicted at an idle word as some at an act of adultery, and will not allow to itself so much anger as will disturb a child, nor endure the impurity of a dream. And this is the curiosity and niceness of divine love: this is the fear of God, and is the daughter and production of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty wide open. Everybody had better bring their best game every night. If you don't, there's going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28598]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty wide open. Everybody had better bring their best game every night. If you don't, there's going to be some upsets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12765]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57879]]></link><description><![CDATA[If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. -Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17207]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Brando ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Brando came out with only a sweatshirt and the town drooled over him. That shows how much Hollywood has progressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentiallyconstructed by the time childhood is over, but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21906]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentiallyconstructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essencedeveloping, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age willstimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good news is that after seeing very significant reduced spending overall, companies are projecting a slight recovery for 2003. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39801]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good news is that after seeing very significant reduced spending overall, companies are projecting a slight recovery for 2003.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fox knowes much, but more he that catcheth him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49855]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fox knowes much, but more he that catcheth him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When some of these big companies realize how much money there is to make, those ports will start being able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41211]]></link><description><![CDATA[When some of these big companies realize how much money there is to make, those ports will start being able to take shipments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead:  And in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead:  And in whatever state a man be thrown,   'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44149]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1132]]></link><description><![CDATA[For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19460]]></link><description><![CDATA[For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "Image."It is an Edifice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "Image."It is an Edifice for the entombment of bones!Best to "Realize" the temporal nature of thingsand simply "Do and Die!1973]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sittings, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27502]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sittings, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26279</guid></item></channel></rss>