<?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[You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61349]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to win the district tournament. We want to put a trophy in our case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28817]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to win the district tournament. We want to put a trophy in our case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am determined to see the job through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am determined to see the job through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8027]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the smile that was childlike and bland. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56679]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the smile that was childlike and bland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8805]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It didn't dawn on me that we were older/elderly women. Later, of course, people felt we were doing so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It didn't dawn on me that we were older/elderly women. Later, of course, people felt we were doing so much to further the cause of mature women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by common hatred of it's neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44380]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by common hatred of it's neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. from the poemThe Cotter’s Saturday Night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. from the poemThe Cotter’s Saturday Night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45393</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[Feast of Matthias the Apostle   I shall not value his prayers at all, be he never so earnest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle   I shall not value his prayers at all, be he never so earnest and frequent in them, who gives not alms according to his ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A guest and a fish after three days are poison ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A guest and a fish after three days are poison]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52472]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a district where where you might lose, you will move to the center. That is the beauty of the two party system in America as opposed to the parliamentary system in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20693]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carroll Dawson has served this organization very well over the past 26 years, and he will continue to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carroll Dawson has served this organization very well over the past 26 years, and he will continue to be a very useful resource for many years to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56108]]></link><description><![CDATA[What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26145]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33146]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths a year. Moreover, children who have never seen the inside of a classroom are precisely those that face the most acute poverty, and should be the prime target of the international community if it is at all serious about realizing the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals of halving extreme poverty by 2015.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clever men are good, but they are not the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clever men are good, but they are not the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is just during the two week spring recess...[when Congress resumes] he's going to push for the bill and hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31773]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is just during the two week spring recess...[when Congress resumes] he's going to push for the bill and hope that the bill will come up for a vote, and then he'll be working toward that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has joined the innocent with the guilty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50230]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has joined the innocent with the guilty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17067]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falstaff sweats to death, And lards the lean earth as he walks along. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falstaff sweats to death, And lards the lean earth as he walks along. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true,  It's guid to support Caledonia's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54888]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true,  It's guid to support Caledonia's cause,   And bide by the buff and the blue!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65520]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we'll do anything differently. We'll try to put a lot of pressure on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we'll do anything differently. We'll try to put a lot of pressure on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44976]]></link><description><![CDATA[For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence is the poetry of prose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence is the poetry of prose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For rarely man escapes his destiny. [It., Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12060]]></link><description><![CDATA[For rarely man escapes his destiny. [It., Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges attached to the rank he occupies in the commonwealth, nor act as if he were qualified as a ruler by birth and forcibly prevent others from reach­ing the higher levels of the hierarchy through their own merit. He may hand down everything else, so long as it is material and not pertaining to his person, for it may be acquired and disposed of as property and may over a series of generations create considerable inequalities in wealth among the mem­bers of the commonwealt. But he may not prevent his sub­ordinates from raising themselves to his own level if they are able and entitled to do so by their talent, industry and good fortune. If this were not so, he would be allowed to practise coercion without himself being subject to coercive counter-measures from others, and would thus be more than their fellow-subject.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know another human being in some ways better than he knew himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 1970s and 1980s, many biologists thought wolverines were gone from Washington. It's only in the last 10 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39741]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1970s and 1980s, many biologists thought wolverines were gone from Washington. It's only in the last 10 years we were sure they were here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just vengeance does not call for punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just vengeance does not call for punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finite there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20818]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finite there is a transfinite (which one could also call the supra-finite), that is an unbounded ascending lader of definite modes, which by their nature are not finite but infinite, but which just like the finite can be determined by well-defined and distinguishable numbers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me aninstrument which only truth can speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21147]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me aninstrument which only truth can speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They might not even find them. Might not even find him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39240]]></link><description><![CDATA[They might not even find them. Might not even find him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60544]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22986</guid></item></channel></rss>