<?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[The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56313]]></link><description><![CDATA[What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was an outsider. I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed. While I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was an outsider. I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed. While I looked for validation from my fellow contemporaries, I instead found jealousy and envy. I did not find team spirit. This led to dissatisfaction, an unease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away  I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3905]]></link><description><![CDATA[For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away  I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave,   I'le seek him in your eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26311]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to brag, I think he's qualified too, in fact I know he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to brag, I think he's qualified too, in fact I know he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am bound to take care of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness seems to be the result of something happening — inactivity is not very exhilarating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness seems to be the result of something happening — inactivity is not very exhilarating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb;  But God's time is our harvest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb;  But God's time is our harvest time,   And that is sure to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16959]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My hope is you can go into Starbucks, buy your paper and coffee, and go through the security line with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35843]]></link><description><![CDATA[My hope is you can go into Starbucks, buy your paper and coffee, and go through the security line with one card.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain;  Who from the dark and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain;  Who from the dark and doubtful love to run,   And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63566]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen. [Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant les ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45267]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen. [Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant les boeufs.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15656]]></link><description><![CDATA[What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never be too slow when you try to deal with public safety, because as we've seen in other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29473]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never be too slow when you try to deal with public safety, because as we've seen in other historic periods where we've cut dramatically the size of the police force, there's been a concomitant increase ... in crime, ... You can't compromise public safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hector is a super gifted person and an amazing organ player, ... It kind of blows your mind when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hector is a super gifted person and an amazing organ player, ... It kind of blows your mind when you see him. He's very unique. He sits with his back to the audience, the organ facing backstage. You can see his feet, and he puts on quite a foot show. You're just amazed. There's not an age that doesn't appreciate him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14471]]></link><description><![CDATA[When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three men, together riding, Can win new worlds at their will;  Resolute, ne'er dividing,   Lead, and be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three men, together riding, Can win new worlds at their will;  Resolute, ne'er dividing,   Lead, and be victors still.    Three can laugh and doom a king,     Three can make the planets sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember the silence, the eerie sound of silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember the silence, the eerie sound of silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52916]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect. [Lat., Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8715]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect. [Lat., Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;  And out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1730]]></link><description><![CDATA[For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;  And out of old bokis, in good fey,   Comyth al this newe science that men lere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little by little one walks far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little by little one walks far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat, And none could be unhappy but the Great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42814]]></link><description><![CDATA[As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat, And none could be unhappy but the Great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul.  'Tis the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul.  'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the moth-eaten rag,   When the pole was a staff, and the rag was a flag.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look back, and smile on perils past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look back, and smile on perils past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that 'walks in us.' There are all sorts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20907]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that 'walks in us.' There are all sorts of dead ideas and lifeless old beliefs. They have no tangibility, but they haunt us all the same and we can not get rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. Ghosts must be all over the country. as thick as the sands of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46665]]></link><description><![CDATA[In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 small uncaring ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The president's $1.6 trillion plan should be a floor, not a ceiling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The president's $1.6 trillion plan should be a floor, not a ceiling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year may be President Bush's best year; it would have been President Clinton's worst year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28545]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year may be President Bush's best year; it would have been President Clinton's worst year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't sure if he was going to play, but we had a plan for him if he showed up. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36099]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't sure if he was going to play, but we had a plan for him if he showed up. We'd have a player shadow him the whole game. But since he wasn't there, it allowed us to go into it the same way we usually do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Threaten the oppressed and be prepared to face their onslaught, abuse them and be prepared for an even greater threat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Threaten the oppressed and be prepared to face their onslaught, abuse them and be prepared for an even greater threat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16292</guid></item></channel></rss>