<?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[A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65316]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15730]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who are participating in this boycott are simply letting everybody know that we have an impact. The people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who are participating in this boycott are simply letting everybody know that we have an impact. The people organizing this want to make sure the message is positive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps; Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps;  She, while the lovely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps; Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps;  She, while the lovely babe unconscious lies,   Smiles on her slumbering child with pensive eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you don't do can be a destructive force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20699]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you don't do can be a destructive force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They will probably be there the rest of the week, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37668]]></link><description><![CDATA[They will probably be there the rest of the week,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All leaders strive to turn their followers into children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47596]]></link><description><![CDATA[All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61927]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They know the time to go! The fairy clocks strike their inaudible hour  In field and woodland, and each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16261]]></link><description><![CDATA[They know the time to go! The fairy clocks strike their inaudible hour  In field and woodland, and each punctual flower   Bows at the signal an obedient head    And hastens to bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're not going to be a superman every time you go out onto the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28448]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're not going to be a superman every time you go out onto the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13994]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60028]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" should examine, not their capacity for meditation, but their capacity for suffering and love. For there is a hard and costly element, a deep seriousness, a crucial choice, in all genuine religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reality is, we have to get rid of faith-based arbitration, no matter what. The only way we can protect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reality is, we have to get rid of faith-based arbitration, no matter what. The only way we can protect [women] is for the state to come out and say one law, one process, one secular law for all, and that is it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13720]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54609]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54609</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[I think other benefits are being utilized today more often than sabbaticals as retention tools. Instead of giving us six ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think other benefits are being utilized today more often than sabbaticals as retention tools. Instead of giving us six weeks off a year, employees are demanding more day to day flexibility, like the ability to telecommute, flex-time and child care or elder-care benefits. Those are the other areas where we are seeing real growth, while sabbaticals are sort of going up and down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9468]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not consolation. It is light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not consolation. It is light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who have money and people who are rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21191]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who have money and people who are rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60320]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where deep and misty shadows float In forest's depths is heard thy note.  Like a lost spirit, earthbound still, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where deep and misty shadows float In forest's depths is heard thy note.  Like a lost spirit, earthbound still,   Art thou, mysterious whip-poor-will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51210]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What maintains one vice would bring up two children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60501]]></link><description><![CDATA[What maintains one vice would bring up two children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58396]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21392]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Herself the solitary scion left Of a time-honour'd race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Herself the solitary scion left Of a time-honour'd race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are inmates part of a fix? Absolutely. But to send an inmate out as a quasi-United Nations representative? Who's controlling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are inmates part of a fix? Absolutely. But to send an inmate out as a quasi-United Nations representative? Who's controlling that? Who's running the damn place when you're using peacekeepers?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no reason to suspect this was anything other than, well, a burglary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40654]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no reason to suspect this was anything other than, well, a burglary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52750]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3746]]></link><description><![CDATA[In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I contemplate the interposition of Providence, as it was visibly manifested, in guiding us through the Revolution, in preparing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51910]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I contemplate the interposition of Providence, as it was visibly manifested, in guiding us through the Revolution, in preparing us for the reception of a general government, and in conciliating the good will of the People of America towards one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O child! O new-born denizen Of life's great city! on thy head  The glory of morn is shed,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3642]]></link><description><![CDATA[O child! O new-born denizen Of life's great city! on thy head  The glory of morn is shed,   Like a celestial benison!    Here at the portal thou dost stand,     And with thy little hand      Thou openest the mysterious gate       Into the future's undiscovered land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63603]]></link><description><![CDATA[All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thornes whiten yet doe nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thornes whiten yet doe nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chicken is the Countries, but the Citie eats it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chicken is the Countries, but the Citie eats it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49812</guid></item></channel></rss>