<?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[It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52666]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canst thou bind, the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canst thou bind, the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I surprised by how slow he's moving? My basic answer is, yes. I knew he was not going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I surprised by how slow he's moving? My basic answer is, yes. I knew he was not going to turn the Earth on its head overnight. But given the vastness of his ambitions ... I would have expected in the first eight months he would be doing lots of things of consequence: more significant personnel moves, more significant documents, more serious public engagements, etc., etc.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is over and Business is Business ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is over and Business is Business]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though "Bother it" I may Occasionally say,  I never never use a big, big, D. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though "Bother it" I may Occasionally say,  I never never use a big, big, D.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get a certain amount of cachet. The more people that know about your stuff, the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34580]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get a certain amount of cachet. The more people that know about your stuff, the better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a big help. I was very appreciative of everything I received. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33499]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big help. I was very appreciative of everything I received.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...we are apt to forget that the vast majority of men and women who fell under the totalitarian spell was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47257]]></link><description><![CDATA[...we are apt to forget that the vast majority of men and women who fell under the totalitarian spell was activated by unselfish motives, ready to accept the role of martyr or executioner, as the cause demanded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue in most request is conformity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60790]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue in most request is conformity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60790</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[The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling. [Lat., Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling. [Lat., Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed saepe cadendo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24418]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reason to repeat bad history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53120]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reason to repeat bad history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were extremely happy with the way we came out tonight. Twenty-two points has been a halftime score for us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33760]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were extremely happy with the way we came out tonight. Twenty-two points has been a halftime score for us in some games. So that was nice. We knocked down some open shots. David and Jeff made some nice moves inside. We controlled the boards and were able to get the ball down the floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46277]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27208]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel no personal loyalty to Him at all -- indeed, pay no attention whatever to His commandments and His will for one's life. One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27158]]></link><description><![CDATA[He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's wrestling well. Both those kids (he beat) are pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38929]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's wrestling well. Both those kids (he beat) are pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our needs should come second.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn March 16, 2000 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can act. And you may well say "act". For what I call "myself" (for all practical, everyday purposes) is also a dramatic construction; memories, glimpses in the shavinglass, and snatches of the very fallible activity called "introspection", are the principal ingredients. Normally I call this construction "me"' and the stage set "the real world". Now the moment of prayer is for me -- or involves for me as its condition -- the awareness, the reawakened awareness, that this "real world" and "real self" are very far from being rock-bottom realities. I cannot, in the flesh, leave the stage, either to go behind the scenes or to take my seat in the pit; but I can remember that these regions exist. And I also remember that my apparent self -- this clown or hero or super -- under his grease-paint is a real person with an off-stage life. The dramatic person could not tread the stage unless he concealed a real person: unless the real and unknown I existed, I would not even make mistakes about the imagined me. And in prayer this real I struggles to speak, for once, from his real being, and to address, for once, not the other actors, but -- what shall I call Him? The Author, for He invented us all? The Producer, for He controls all? Or the Audience, for He watches, and will judge, the performance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12948]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold. [Fr., Je voudrais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold. [Fr., Je voudrais bien voir la grimace qu'il fait a cette heure sur cet echafaud.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  A knowledge of the Bible without a college ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  A knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a knowledge of the Bible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris,  Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris,  Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The promoter called and said, 'What should we do?' People were calling to say they were sure it was canceled, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The promoter called and said, 'What should we do?' People were calling to say they were sure it was canceled, but I thought that to have a public event that night would be a good idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent. [Lat., Quod exemplo fit, id etiam jure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent. [Lat., Quod exemplo fit, id etiam jure fieri putant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12575]]></link><description><![CDATA[When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   We must not be unjust and require from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   We must not be unjust and require from ourselves what is not in ourselves. Do not desire not to be what you are, but desire to be very well what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65149]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53011]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26359]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62534]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I finally found that notion of Jo, I found the structure of the opera, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41682]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I finally found that notion of Jo, I found the structure of the opera,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3152</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[Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is weakness leaving the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is weakness leaving the body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a phoenix. His faith in Iraq and in himself has been incredible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34955]]></link><description><![CDATA[a phoenix. His faith in Iraq and in himself has been incredible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine by defect, and delicately weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine by defect, and delicately weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61340</guid></item></channel></rss>