<?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[Drugs are a bet with your mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drugs are a bet with your mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we've made a lot of really great progress moving things along. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29279]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we've made a lot of really great progress moving things along.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws die, Books never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws die, Books never.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black is best worn as an ensemble - black with black. Black with color is not quite where we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black is best worn as an ensemble - black with black. Black with color is not quite where we are right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61003]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest about thirty years after date. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48920]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest about thirty years after date.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have more cargo coming in than last year, largely because of the end of textile and apparel quotas, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have more cargo coming in than last year, largely because of the end of textile and apparel quotas, but it's flowing much more smoothly from the ships to the stores than we saw in 2004,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farewell, remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farewell, remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43150]]></link><description><![CDATA[However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13176]]></link><description><![CDATA[That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dove, On silver pinions, winged her peaceful way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dove, On silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59081]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Love is that liquor sweet and most divine Which my God feels as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Love is that liquor sweet and most divine Which my God feels as blood; but I, as wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy. -Troilus and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issues that are important to voters (in Illinois) are Democratic issues. If the Republicans want to win back the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issues that are important to voters (in Illinois) are Democratic issues. If the Republicans want to win back the Governor's Mansion, they really have to put up a Jim Edgar-type candidate, a moderate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have ten thousand for defense, but none to surrender; if you want our weapons come and get them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have ten thousand for defense, but none to surrender; if you want our weapons come and get them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character matters; leadership descends from character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character matters; leadership descends from character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from the earth. Night dew clings to the soil and makes plants glisten. Birds call to one another. Bees are already at work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set a thief to catch a thief ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set a thief to catch a thief]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends,  Consoler of the lonely,   Bond of the scattered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends,  Consoler of the lonely,   Bond of the scattered family,    Enlarger of the common life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13559]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26769]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, the technology community in Massachusetts competes in a global economy, and our efforts to create a more competitive environment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, the technology community in Massachusetts competes in a global economy, and our efforts to create a more competitive environment recognizes that competitiveness at a local level. We'd expect employers in other states to use this site as they consider where in Massachusetts to locate or expand their presence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. -King John. Act iv. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55796]]></link><description><![CDATA[And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no question there were challenges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no question there were challenges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.   The best leaders of all, the people know not they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.   The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.   The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other. •Ma-Tsu   You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed. •Mumon  Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung. •Zen Saying  No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself. •Tilopa   When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back. •Ying-An   There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things. •Yuan-Wu  The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. •Robert M. Pirsig  Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. •Zen Proverb  Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always had confidence, but I never let my ego get to the point that I think I'm the superstar, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13660]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always had confidence, but I never let my ego get to the point that I think I'm the superstar, because I know that ego has destroyed many a poker career.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56897]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DepLeted uranium is a warcrimein progress.Doug Rokkeappointed by Norman Schwarzkopf ascommander of a cleanup crew of several hundred,30 of whom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61167]]></link><description><![CDATA[DepLeted uranium is a warcrimein progress.Doug Rokkeappointed by Norman Schwarzkopf ascommander of a cleanup crew of several hundred,30 of whom have died of cancerhttp://indymedia.org.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30857]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so easy to men of goodwill as goodwill itself, and this is all that God requires. Every act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so easy to men of goodwill as goodwill itself, and this is all that God requires. Every act of goodwill permanently and sensibly increases goodwill. Trifling acts of goodwill are often more efficacious in this way than great ones. A flower given in kindness and at the right time profits more, both to giver and receiver, than some vast material benefit in which the goodwill is hidden by the magnitude of the act. Some little, sensible, individual touch from the hand of our Lord may convert the heart more than the contemplation of His death for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have set yourself a task finish it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50811]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have set yourself a task finish it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May everything he treads upon become a rose! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50828]]></link><description><![CDATA[May everything he treads upon become a rose!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50828</guid></item></channel></rss>